MICRO-BIO

• Dorothea Pienaar has been working for years with all ages and abilities/disabilities as a teacher, Music Therapist and Community Worker.

  Dorothea Pienaar has been working for years with all ages and abilities/disabilities as a teacher, Music Therapist and Community Worker. Less

EXPERIENCE

• AESOCHA: Arts in Education for Social Change/Bellbird Music Hub

  • Founder
  • Arts/Music
  • 2/40 Wairere Road, Belmont
  • January 2020 to Present

• Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School

  • Assistant Principal
  • Lower School
  • January 2019 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Auckland

  • Masters of Speech Science (Psychology)
  • February 2009 to July 2011

  My Masters was the culmination of my studies over the years. It was a thesis on the effect of music on the early communication development of children. Before that my qualifications were: B.A. ( Psychology, Languages, Music), Honours degree in Psychology, Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching, Postgraduate Music Therapy, Postgraduate Diploma in Speech Science, New Zealand Sign Language.

DISCIPLINES

• Music Therapy/Therapist

• Psychology Teacher Education

Interests

• Grief And Bereavement

• Education

• Play Therapy

• Music Therapy

Languages

• German

• Afrikaans

• English

Links

• Under construction for AESOCHA (Arts in Education for Social Change)