Lecturers' Biographies

Lecturers and Tutors

Allison Pitt

Allison Pitt studied at University of NSW and gained her Bachelor of Education in Art. A life dedicated to education she has taught Art and Drama at Steiner, Public and Catholic High Schools. She has worked with very little children, with primary school aged children for seven years at Kamaroi Rudolf Steiner School, people with severe disabilities and those entering the last phase of life. Allison is a lecturer who also holds many workshops. She currently facilitates groups for those with an interest in recovering their creativity. She has a deep appreciation of the work of Rudolf Steiner and its potential to inspire change.

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Fiona Campbell

Fiona has been apProfessional artist for 20 years. She  has established a small business Painted  Space, specializing in Lazure Murals and  artworks that integrate and enhance architectural surface and space.
She is a trained Waldorf Teacher and an experienced adult educator for 12 years, having lectured at Parsifal College in the modules; Evolution of Consciousness,  Parsifal Studies, Destiny and Visual Arts.
She has a BA(Honours)  in Linguistics, an is currently enrolled in MA  in Information Science.

Jacques Goldman

Jacques Goldman has taught creative writing at Parsifal College since 1988. He has written two radio plays and some poetry (unpublished). His poem Hello, I am a child was published in 2005 in the collection Mood Lighting. In 2003 he completed a Masters of Education at the University of Sydney with a text for adults on the history of ethics.
He also teaches studies in religion for the University of the Third Age. The fourth edition of his chronology Rudolf Steiner's Works in English is in preparation.

Joanna Panagiotopoulos

Joanna Panagiotopoulos is a performer, poet and speech artist. She began her anthroposophical studies at Parsifal College, and then commenced a three-year training with Dawn Langman in the arts of movement, speech and acting at The School of the Living Word.
Her work is an ongoing exploration of the integration of Michael Chekhov's acting technique with Rudolf Steiner's art of speech formation. The basis of this work is to aim towards experiencing the wholeness of life in the art of theatre, which embraces the earth, soul and spiritual aspects of character and language.
She has performed in a number of plays to both mainstream and anthroposophical audiences, and is now involved in the creation of an ensemble that is attempting to cultivate this particular approach. She is teaching this work privately in the southern highlands of NSW and to students at Parsifal College.

June Cunningham

June has a special interest in the way humans work together in groups and organisations, particularly in the context of Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the threefold social order. Her approach also draws from modern management philosophies based on organic rather than mechanistic models.
Her interest in these areas has developed during 25 years of wide-ranging management experience with local government, business and schools, and a continuing search for more ethical and human-sensitive workplaces. For 10 very intensive and satisfying years to 1998, June was a founding parent, director and Business Manager of Kamaroi Rudolf Steiner School in Sydney.
June now works as a consultant assisting Steiner schools in the areas of governance, financial management, administration and strategic planning. She also works closely with the Rudolf Steiner Schools of Australia association, through which she has published her book Working with Curriculum in Australian Steiner Schools and an Administration Handbook for Steiner schools.

Mark Baxter

Mark is an architect active in designing Waldorf Schools Australia wide. He studied sculpture at Emerson college and pioneered Flowform water sculptures in Australia. Having taught sculpture at Parsifal for many years he now lectures on architecture and the visual arts.

Dr Chris Miliotis MBBS

Chris first met Anthroposophy through the work in Curative Education and Biodynamic Farming. He then studied Medicine at UNSW. From there he integrated complementary and Anthroposophical Medicine into his GP practice.
In 2004 he spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at The John Curtin School of Postgraduate Medical Research at ANU. In 2005 he took up a lecturing position at a College of Naturopathy. He has lectured extensively to audiences on many varied topics, however the underlying theme has always been his understanding of the Human Being as influenced by Anthroposophy.

Eileen Kaufman

Eileen Kaufman is currently managing Warrah Biodynamic Farm; a certified biodynamic market garden and free range chicken farm which is part of Warrah Society, an anthroposophical disability program.
Her qualifications include a Horticultural Science Degree (Massey University) a Diploma in Biodynamic Agriculture (Taruna College New Zealand) and Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment (Hornsby TAFE) Eileen has 10 years of experience in organic and biodynamic farming.

Renate Long-Breipohl

Renate Long-Breipohl holds a doctorate in theology and a degree in education, majoring in early childhood education. She has been involved in Anthroposophy for 30 years. Before migrating to Australia in 1985 she has lectured in early childhood at universities in Bochum and Dortmund in Germany.
In Australia she became the co-founder of the Samford Valley Steiner School near Brisbane and taught there in the kindergarten for 10 years. In 1997 she moved to Sydney to join Parsifal College, as a tutor in the Anthroposophical Studies course and as coordinator and tutor in the early childhood courses.
Renate regularly travels, lecturing in Australia and the South East Pacific Region. She has coordinated Steiner early childhood teacher training courses in Manila/ Philippines from 2000-2002 and in Bangkok from 2003-2006. She is member on the board of the International Association for Steiner Early Childhood Education.

Ronan O Connor M App Sc Soc Ecol, Bach Adult Ed

For most of his working life Ronan O Connor has been involved in environmental/biodynamic work primarily growing and planting trees in Europe and Australia. Coupled with this was a strong interest in community/social development. More recently he has aligned himself with the fields of adult education and therapy for addictions, working out of anthroposophy.

Samantha Chan

Samantha Chan is an ex-student of Parsifal College and studied sculpture and visual arts at Emerson College in the United Kingdom. Samantha Chan is an ex-student of Parsifal College and studied sculpture and visual arts at Emerson College in the United Kingdom.

Steiner Education Lecturers and Tutors

Andrew Hill, B.A. Hons,  Dip Arts(English) , M. Ed.

Andrew Hill lectures in Steiner Pedagogy, English and Science and is a member of the College of Tutors of the Advanced Diploma of Rudolf Steiner Education and the Part-time Course. With a background in Anthropology and English literature as well as experience in a curative school Andrew has been strongly involved in all aspects of teacher training.  In 2006 he is teaching Class 5 on his third round of class teaching.

Ann Jacobson, M.A (Music )

Ann Jacobson has been a class teacher for more than 20 years both at Glenaeon and another Steiner inspired school. She tutors in the HSIE module bringing the Cultural Epochs and Human Environment as well as lecturing in Main Lesson Theory to the Part-time Course.  Ann is teaching Class 7 on this round as a Class teacher and is also a member of the College of Tutors.

Peggy Day, B.A., Dip Ed, M. Ed.

Peggy Day has been a long term Steiner Preschool and Kindergarten teacher but has also taught craft and in the Class Teacher Period as well as a Waldorf subject in the Senior High School. She has been the Coordinator of the Advanced Diploma since 1999. Fairy Tales, Festivals, Craft and Early Childhood are her areas.

Diane Tatum, B.A., Eur Dip, M. Cur Eur

Diane taught at the New York School after completing her Eurythmy training in Germany. She was then a member of the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart before undertaking the Curative Eurythmy training. She has been a Eurythmy teacher at Kamaroi School in Sydney for many years and has tutored in Child Observation and Inner Development as well as Eurythmy in the Advanced Diploma.

John Rowan, B.A., Dip Ed

John was a geography teacher before training and at the Edinburgh School to be a Steiner Class Teacher. He has taken two classes at Glenaeon through their 7 year cycle and now tutors in Maths, Geometry and Form Drawing as well as Visual Arts.

Graeme Harvey, B Eng (Uni W.A.)

Graeme Harveyhas been involved in the Advanced Diploma in the fields of School Management, Social Skills and Human Communication. He has been a consultant to industry and to Steiner Schools in Management and Social Development for over 20 years after training in this field at Emerson College.

Elizabeth Lilicrap, B. A.

Elizabeth Lilicrap teaches singing to the Advanced Diploma students, building a love of music and a repertoire for the classes of each age. She has a B. A. in Music and German and has been an instrumental music and voice teacher for many years. 
Elizabeth is Choir Mistress of the Sydney St James Junior Choir and also a High School Teacher.

Bernadette Gaskin, Dip Cur Ed

Bernadette Gaskin trained as a curative teacher in England before working at Inala in Sydney. She was a class teacher at the Perth Waldorf School and is now teaches Class 3 at Glenaeon. With a love of both the oral language tradition and history she tutors in speech for morning circle, anthroposophy and steiner pedagogy in the part-time course.

John Blackwood, B Sc. (Tech), Dip Ed (UNE)

John Blackwood has been a High School Maths teacher at Glenaeon for 21 years and has a research interest in projective geometry and plant forms. He has recently had published 2 Steiner High School Maths books. He has tutored in Anthroposophy for many years.