Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education Staff

Eve Harwood
Professor Emerita
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Interim Editor Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education

Eve Harwood (Ed. D., University of Illinois, 1987) is Interim Editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and holds Emerita status with the School of Music. During her twenty years at Illinois she served as associate professor of music education and for six years as associate dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Her research interests stem from questions central to her teaching career, namely how children learn to become music makers and how young adults learn to become music teachers. Her published research includes studies of informal music learning, music teacher education, arts curricula in higher education and children's playground music. She is co-author with Kathryn Marsh of the chapter "Children's Ways of Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom" in the forthcoming publication The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, edited by Gary McPherson and Graham Welch.

Allen R. Legutki
Assistant Professor of Music Education
Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois
Associate Editor Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education

Dr. Legutki received his BME and MME degrees from Illinois State University, and his Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Illinois. Before joining the faculty at Benedictine University, he taught elementary and secondary instrumental methods courses at the University of Illinois, where he continues to serve as associate editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Dr. Legutki's research interests include music student motivation, teacher and performer identity, and social dynamics within group music activities. He has presented on these and other topics at local, national, and international music education conferences. His secondary school teaching experience includes directing middle and high school bands, jazz ensemble, and music theory in Sullivan, Illinois, where he also served as director of student activities for Sullivan High School.

 

Carlos Abril
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Music Education
Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Dr. Carlos Abril is associate professor and director of undergraduate music education at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami where he teaches courses in cultural diversity, music in childhood, and philosophy of music education. Prior to this appointment he served as the coordinator of music education and associate professor of music education at Northwestern University. Abril's research focuses on sociocultural issues in music education, music education policy, curriculum, and music perception. His work has been published in books, research journals, and professional journals. He recently published a chapter in the Handbook of Research on Music Learning (Oxford) and co-edited the book, Musical Experience in Our Lives (Rowman & Littlefield). He serves on various editorial boards including the Journal of Research in Music Education, Visions of Research in Music Education, and Revista Electrónica Complutense Investigación en Educación Musical. Abril received a Ph.D. in music education at The Ohio State University, M. M. in performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a B. M. in music education at the University of Miami.

 

Randall Everett Allsup
Assistant Professor of Music Education
Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York
http://www.reallsup.com/

Randall Everett Allsup holds degrees in music performance and music education from Northwestern and Columbia University. Randall graduated from Teachers College in 2002 and received the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award by the Council for Research in Music Education for Crossing Over: Mutual Learning and Democratic Action in Instrumental Music Education. Before returning to Teachers College as assistant professor, Randall was coordinator of music education and director of bands at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. He has taught courses in music education and conducting at the Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, and in 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach and conduct research at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. Randall currently teaches courses in creativity and problem solving; democracy and music education; philosophies of music education; and doctoral seminar. He is the proud recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award at Columbia.

Randall's interests in issues surrounding social justice and democracy were sharpened by coursework with Maxine Greene and his work in schools in neglected neighborhoods of New York City, teaching music at Cardinal Hayes High School in the South Bronx and through the Our Children's Foundation in west Harlem. In 2006, Randall hosted and organized the first-ever "International Conference on Music Education, Equity, and Social Justice" at Teachers College. Today, he remains a passionate advocate of the transformative affects of public schooling and arts education.

Randall writes about the challenges of reconceptualizing music pedagogy, with a special interest instrumental and popular music.His teaching and scholarship is shaped by great thinkers like Maxine Greene, Paulo Freire, and John Dewey. His articles appear in Philosophy of Music Education Review; Theory into Practice; Music Education Research; Music Educators Journal; Bluegrass Music News; School Music News; Visions of Research in Music Education; Teaching Music; Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education; Nordic Research in Music Education; Finnish Journal of Music Education; British Journal of Music Education;and Journal of Research in Music Education. He serves on the editorial boards of Music Education Research, Finnish Journal of Music Education, and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.

 

Janet R. Barrett
Associate Professor, Music Education
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Janet Barrett is a general music specialist and researcher. Her research interests are in curriculum studies, interdisciplinary approaches in music education, and professional development in music teacher education. She is the co-author of Looking In On Music Teaching (McGraw-Hill/Primis, 2000), Sound Ways of Knowing: Music in the Interdisciplinary Curriculum (Schirmer, 1997), and Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching (Routledge, 2010). She also served as editor for Music Education as a Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She is a contributor to the New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, the Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Music Education Research, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education. She previously taught general and choral music in Iowa and Wisconsin. She is chair of the Society for Music Teacher Education.

 

Margaret Haefner Berg
Associate Professor of Instrumental/String Music Education, Chair of Music Education
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Berg received her BS in music education from Case Western Reserve University, BM in violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music, MEd from the University of Cincinnati, and PhD from Northwestern University. Previously she was on the faculty at Ball State University where she also conducted the East Central String Sinfonietta and was a member of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. She has also taught at DePaul University and in the Cincinnati Public Schools. Dr. Berg is an active orchestra festival conductor and state and national conference clinician as well as former President of Colorado ASTA w/NSOA (American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association). Her research interests include the social psychology of music education, string/orchestra pedagogy and curriculum development, and teacher education. Dr. Berg has published articles in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Psychology of Music, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Music Educators Journal, and American String Teacher as well as contributed to various books, including Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra (volume 1, 2 and 3), Applying Research to Teaching and Playing Stringed Instruments, Advances in Music Education Research and the recently published Musical Experiences in Our Lives. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and Journal of String Research.

 

Louis Bergonzi
Professor of Conducting and Music Education/Strings, Chair of the Music Education Division, and Conductor of the UI Philharmonia Orchestra
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Dr. Louis Bergonzi was appointed to the University of Illinois faculty in 2005. Previously he was on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music for 16 years. A frequent presenter at regional, state, national, and international teachers' conferences, Bergonzi's areas of expertise include orchestra rehearsal technique, conducting, and string teaching, particularly in an urban setting. His extensive experience in these areas include acting as director of the Eastman Summer Music Academy for String Teachers (1995-1999); director of the Rochester-Eastman Urban String Project (1997-2005); conductor of numerous all-state honor orchestras; Melbourne Australia Summer Youth Music (1999-2005); Hong Kong Summer Youth Orchestras (1997); and All-State Intermediate Orchestra at Interlochen (1985-1990).

Bergonzi's research involves secondary data analysis of large-scale, nationally representative data sets to consider issues in the sociology of music education and arts education policy. His efforts have garnered several research grants and fellowships, including Yamaha Music Education Research Project (1995- ); National Endowment for the Arts (1993-95, 1997- ); and Bridging Fellowship in Public Policy Analysis, University of Rochester (1995). In 2010, he was co-director of Establishing Identity: LGBT Studies and Music Education, a symposium that provided energy to the discussion of how LGBT issues operate within music education in terms of research, curriculum, teacher preparation, and the musical lives and careers of LGBT music students and teachers.

He has written for the American String Teacher, the Music Educators Journal, and the Journal of Research in Music Education. Dr. Bergonzi contributed a chapter on teacher preparation for work in diverse classrooms in the ASTA publication, String Teaching in America: Strategies for a Diverse Society. He was also co-editor for MENC of a compilation of teaching strategies organized around the national music standards, and co-author of Effects of Arts Education on Participation in the Arts and Americans' Musical Preferences (National Endowment for the Arts, 1996/2002) and of Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (GIA, 2002/2003/2007).

 

Mark R. Campbell
Associate Professor of Music Education
Crane School of Music, SUNY, Potsdam, New York

MARK ROBIN CAMPBELL, Associate Professor of Music Education at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education. His public school teaching includes over 25 years of experience in general music, band, chorus and orchestra in Illinois and New York. Campbell is author/editor of numerous articles and books including: Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching (Routlege) and On Musicality and Milestone: Selected Writings of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman with Contributions from the Profession (University of Illinois). His articles can be found in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and others. He is currently a Co-Editor of Advances in Music Education Research (Information Age Publishing), a book series project of the Music Education Special Interest Group of AERA. Campbell holds Master's and doctoral degrees in music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Alice-Ann Darrow
Irvin Cooper Professor of Music Therapy and Music Education
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Dr. Darrow came to The Florida State University in 2003 from The University of Kansas.

She received her BM, BME, MM, and PhD degrees at The Florida State University, and taught in music programs for students with and without disabilities in Miami, Florida before going to the University of Kansas.

Her teaching and research interests are teaching music to special populations and the role of music in deaf culture. Related to these topics, she has been the recipient of over twenty federal, university, or corporate grants, and published numerous monographs, research articles, and book chapters. She is editor of the text Introduction to Approaches in Music Therapy, and co-author of Music in Special Education and Music and Geriatric Populations. Darrow serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin for the Council on Research in Music Education, Music Therapy Perspectives, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, General Music Today and Florida Music Director. She is commission chair for the International Society for Music Education. She has been the recipient of: the Ella Scoble Opperman Faculty Citation award from the FSU College of Music, research and clinical practice awards from the American Music Therapy Association; and while at The University of Kansas, the University's Silver Anniversary Teaching Award, an Intrauniversity Professorship in special education and hearing science, and membership in the KU Women's Hall of Fame.

 

David J. Elliott
Professor of Music and Music Education
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York University, New York, NY
http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/

David J. Elliott joined NYU in 2002 after twenty-eight years as Professor and Chair of Music Education at the University of Toronto. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University, the University of North Texas, Indiana University, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Limerick. He is the author of "Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education" (Oxford, 1995) and editor of "Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues" (Oxford, 2005/2009). He has presented more than 200 invited lectures at university music schools around the world including: Queens University (Belfast), University of Stockholm, University of Porto, Hong Kong Chinese University, Guangzhou University, University of Sydney, University of Durban-Natal, University of Auckland, Sibelius Academy of Music, UCLA, Eastman School of Music, Michigan State, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Temple, Penn State, University of South Florida, University of Southern California, University of Oklahoma, Boston University, University of Texas (Austin), University of Maryland-College Park, the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, the Hartt School of Music, Ithaca College, and the University of Minnesota.

He is the Chief Editor of Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education and serves on the editorial board of three other journals. In terms of presentations, he has given many keynote addresses and research papers at international, national, and local conferences including world conferences of the International Society for Music Education, the MENC National Conference, and national conferences in China, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Also, as an award-winning composer and arranger, Dr. Elliott has published many choral and instrumental works with Boosey and Hawkes (New York).

 

C. Victor Fung
Professor of Music Education
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Dr. Fung advises doctoral students and teaches courses in psychology of music, music in higher education, international perspectives in music education, and other music education research courses. He has published articles in numerous refereed journals, including Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, College Music Symposium, Contributions to Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Technology in Music Learning, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research to Music Education. He is the editor of Research Perspectives in Music Education and Music Education Research International and has served on the review boards for Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and Journal of Research in Music Education. He has been a Board Member for the College Music Society, International Society for Music Education, and Florida Music Educators' Association.

His research emphasizes on social psychological aspects, multicultural issues, and international perspectives in music education. He has given over seventy presentations at professional conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition, he has given open lectures and seminars at twenty-two universities in Brazil, China, Ireland, Japan, Turkey, and the United States. His research on senior citizens has recently received support from the NAMM Foundation and the Sounds of Learning initiative.

He received his Ph.D. in music education from Indiana University with minors in ethnomusicology and conducting, a Master of Music in music education from Baylor University, and a Performers Diploma in clarinet from Trinity College of Music, UK. He also has an honors diploma in music from Hong Kong Baptist College.

 

Debra Hedden
Associate Professor of Music Education
University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas

Debra Hedden, associate professor of music education, received a B. M. in music education from the University of Iowa, an M. A. in music education from the University of Northern Iowa, and an Ed. D. in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in music education from the University of Northern Iowa. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher in Iowa by MENC and IMEA, named in MENC's Teaching Music, October 2000 and received various teaching awards at UNI. At KU, she was recently received the Byron Shutz Excellence in Teaching Award given to one faculty member annually.

In October of 2010, she served as a curriculum consultant for the Vilnius Pedagogical University in Vilnius, Lithuania, and has been invited to return to assist in melding existing degree programs together for form a music education degree.

Publications to her credit include the following: Journal of Research in Music Education; Music Education Research; Update: Applications of Research in Music Education; The Choral Journal; The Australian Journal of Music Education; The Orff Echo; General Music Today; Children and Music: Developmental Perspectives; Contributions to Music Education; Teaching Music; and The Music Educator's Journal. Online publications include the Elementary General Music Curricular Framework at MENC's website.

Hedden serves as Immediate Past Chair of MENC's Society for General Music, as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum Reform – Orff Schulwerk Association, and as a member of the editorial boards for the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and Journal of Music Teacher Education.

 

Michael Hewitt
Associate Professor, Music Education, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

As a specialist in instrumental music education, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in this area along with graduate classes that focus on research and assessment. He also supervises student teaching interns and advises the student MENC chapter.

Professor Hewitt is regularly invited to serve as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician for school systems and music education organizations. He has made frequent presentations on instrumental music education at national and international meetings of the College Music Society, College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, and the Society for Music Teacher Education.

Hewitt's research interests focus on the development of self-regulation skills among instrumental music students, assessment of music performance, and music teacher education. He is co-author, with Richard Colwell, of The Teaching of Instrumental Music (4th ed.), published by Prentice-Hall and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education and Research and Issues in Music Education, and the advisory committee for the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Recently published articles can be found in the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Bulletin, and Contributions to Music Education.

 

Julia Eklund Koza
Professor of Music Education, Music Education Area Chair
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Julia Eklund Koza (B. A. magna cum laude, St. Olaf College, 1974; M. A. University of Iowa, 1978; Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1988) is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the School of Music. In addition she is a Faculty Affiliate in the Women's Studies Program and has served as Chair of Music Education since 1998. Her widely published research focuses on equity and social justice issues in education, music, and music education, as well as on corporate influence on music education policy. Her work has appeared in the Musical Quarterly, Journal of Research in Music Education, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Educational Foundations, the Quarterly, and Music Educators Journal. Author of chapters in a number of edited collections and of the book Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics (2003), she is currently working on a second book, Kissing the Scars: Re-Imagining Professionalism in Academe. She has served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Quarterly, and GEMS. Professor Koza began her teaching career in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she taught choral and general music in the public schools.

 

Pat Krueger
Music Education Department Chair
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington

Professor Pat Krueger chairs the music education program in the School of Music at the University of Puget Sound. She coordinates music education practicum and student teaching experiences in public schools for Puget Sound students, and she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in music education. She maintains an active commitment to urban and multicultural arts education, and her research focuses on socialization of preservice and beginning music teachers in public schools.

Dr. Krueger previously taught as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and in Wisconsin public schools, and she periodically returns to public school teaching. She earned a BME degree from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and MM and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her publications include chapters in Great Beginnings for Music Teachers: Mentoring and Supporting New Teachers(MENC, 2003), and articles in Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educator's Journal, Update, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Arts Education Policy Review.She has presented at national, Northwest, and Washington Music Educators Conferences and at other professional organizations,and she serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.

 

Courtesy of Indiana University.

Pete Miksza
Associate Professor of Music Education
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana

His teaching duties include undergraduate and graduate courses with emphases on instrumental music teacher preparation, psychological dimensions of music teaching and learning, and research methods. He also works with graduate students to develop and carry out original research projects as theses and dissertations.

Prior to his appointment at IU, Miksza served as band director at Pequannock Valley Middle School, assistant marching band director at Pequannock Township High School in New Jersey, and assistant professor of music education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

His primary research interests lie in the investigation of music practicing and music teacher preparation. He has presented papers at regional, national, and international research conferences and has articles and book chapters published in several prominent peer-reviewed publications, such as the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Contributions to Music Education, Music Education Research International, and the Journal of Music Teacher Education.

Miksza serves on the Advisory Committee of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, is an active participant in the Society for Music Teacher Education, and serves as a reviewer for the American Educational Research Association Music Education Special Interest Group. He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award issued by the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida.

Miksza founded and directed the University of Colorado Middle School Wind and String Ensemble, a middle school band and string outreach program, and co-founded the university's innovative music teacher recruitment program, Trying on Teaching. In addition, he served as faculty advisor for the Collegiate National Association for Music Education Chapter at the school.

 

David E. Myers
Director of the School of Music
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

David Myers, Professor and Director of the School of Music, is an internationally regarded music educator and proponent of innovation in higher music education. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota in 2008, he founded the Center for Educational Partnerships and its groundbreaking Sound Learning partnership among Georgia State University, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, community musicians, and inner-city schools. A former public school teacher and accomplished organist, he has been the American consultant for a joint Master of Music degree for New Audiences and Innovative Practice among five European conservatories. He has served as panel chair and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and keynoted numerous meetings, including the League of American Orchestras national convention, the International Research in Music Education Conference at the University of Exeter (UK), and the national meeting of the College Music Society. He has published, presented, and consulted widely, including work with the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Opera America, the Music Educators National Conference, the College Music Society, and the International Society for Music Education. He has served as author and editor for sections on lifelong learning and school-community partnerships in two major music education handbooks. He currently serves on the editorial committees of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the International Journal of Community Music. His 1996 research for NEA, Beyond Tradition: Partnerships Among Orchestras, Schools, and Communities, remains a seminal publication in the field. Dr. Myers's work has been recognized by the Atlanta Partners in Education and in Harvard Project Zero's study, Qualities of Quality. He received both the junior and senior outstanding faculty awards from the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University, as well as the 2008 Distinguished Career Award from the Georgia Music Educators Association. In 2010, his biography was included in the New Groves Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition. As an evaluator, he has conducted research for the League of American Orchestras on the Orchestra Leadership Academy, the Institutional Vision Program, the Ford Made in America program, and the American Conducting Fellows Program. In addition to NEA, his work has been funded by the Texaco Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, and the Cousins Foundation. Currently, he serves as a Governing Board member of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Myers has been a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 1993 was a visiting professor in the Sydney (AUS) Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He holds degrees from Lebanon Valley College, the Eastman School of Music, and The University of Michigan.

 

Alison M. Reynolds
Associate Professor of Music Education
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Reynolds teaches undergraduates courses and guides field experiences in general music; collaborates with undergraduate Diamond Research Scholars, Diamond Peer Teachers, and recipients of Creative Arts grants; teaches graduate courses in music research, learning theory, and practice; and guides pre-dissertation and dissertation research. Since 2002, she has served as advisor to Boyer's Chapter of National Association for Music Education Collegiate (NAfMEC, formerly CMENC).

Dr. Reynolds is co-author of Jump Right In: The Music Curriculum (Revised Edition), and Music Play: Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers (translations into the Korean, Lithuanian, and Chinese), both published by GIA in Chicago. She is on the editorial review boards for the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Visions of Research in Music Education, and Research Issues in Music Education. Her research is published in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research in Music Education, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, and Journal of Music Teacher Education. She is author or co-author for articles in Perspectives; several state music educator journals; and several book chapters on topics such as parents' documentation of their children's music behaviors, professional development for music teachers, parallels between language development and music development, movement, and mentoring undergraduate teaching assistants who are "trying on" teaching in higher education. She has presented research and practice sessions at venues such as International Society for Music Education, National Association for Music Education (NAfME), International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, New Directions Conference, International Service-Learning Research Conference, International Conference on Civic Education Research, and NAfME All-Eastern Division Conference, and state music educators conferences.

Dr. Reynolds is co-facilitator with Dr. Stanley of The Eastman School of Music for the Professional Development for the Experienced Music Teacher Action Group within the Society of Music Teacher Educators. Within the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, she serves on the Research Committee, and as District XII Higher Education Representative.

 

Mitchell Robinson
Associate Professor of Music Education
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Mitchell Robinson is associate professor of music education at Michigan State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and supervises student teachers. Previous positions include an appointment as assistant professor and coordinator of music education at the University of Connecticut, and an appointment as assistant professor of school and community music education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he also served as director of wind activities and wind ensemble conductor at the University of Rochesteras well as 10 years as Director of Bands and Music Department Facilitator in the Fulton (NY) City School District.

Dr. Robinson holds BFA degrees in music education and performance (trumpet) from SUNY Buffalo, a masters degree in music education and conducting from the Hartt School of Music, an administrative certificate from SUNY College at Oswego, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music.He has also pursued post-graduate studies in music education and conducting at Northwestern University. Robinson was awarded the1997 Reston Prize from Arts Education Policy Review for his analysis of arts education policy, and the 1999 Research Award from the International Network of Performing & Visual Arts Schools.

Dr. Robinson's publications have appeared in Arts Education Policy Review, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, American Music Teacher, American School Board Journal, and the Journal of Music Teacher Education, and he contributed chapters to books from MENC on beginning music teacher induction and mentoring, and urban music education. In addition to his duties at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Robinson also served for two years as Scholar-in-Residence for music for the Connecticut State Department of Education, where his work focused on beginning music teacher induction,support and evaluation.

 

Matthew Thibeault
Assistant Professor of Music Education and of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

He is widely published in the areas general music and technology, including editing the section on media and music education for the forthcoming (2012) Oxford handbook of music education, as well as contributing a chapter for the forthcoming (2012) NSSE Yearbook, The place of music in the 21st century. He serves on the editorial or advisory boards of Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education; the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education; The International Journal of Education & the Arts, and the Journal of Music, Technology, and Education. He writes a column for practitioners, "Secondary Scene" in General Music Today. Working on a multiyear National Science Foundation grant, he co-authored several papers and the 2005 book Designing Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom (Teachers College Press). He has consulted for Apple Computer, the California Arts Council, California State University System, and Interlochen Arts Academy.

Thibeault studied music education and psychology at Florida State University before completing MA and Ph.D. degrees in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (with a concentration in Arts Education) working with Elliot Eisner at Stanford University. He was a full-time public school music specialist (K-3) for the Portola Valley School District, and later worked as an Artist in Residence at the School of the Arts High School in San Francisco.

 

Jackie Wiggins
Professor of Music Education and Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

Jackie Wiggins is Professor of Music Education and Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Oakland University where she teaches graduate courses in psychology of music learning, research in music education, and music curriculum. At Oakland, Wiggins heads the doctoral program in music education: an active, innovative program that attracts students who are interested in studying music learning and teaching from a constructivist perspective.

Internationally known for her work in constructivist music education and children's musical creative process, Wiggins is a prolific author and active presenter. Her professional work includes nearly 50 publications, nearly 200 presentations, and invited keynotes on four continents, including the National Conference of the Australian Society of Music Education (2009), the International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME 2011), and the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research in Taipei (2011).

Recent publications include a second edition of Teaching for Musical Understanding (2001, McGraw-Hill; 2009, Center for Applied Research in Musical Understanding) and several invited research chapters: "Compositional Process in Music" for the Handbook of Research in Arts Education (Springer, 2006), "When the Music Is Theirs: Scaffolding Young Songwriters," in A Cultural Psychology for Music Education (Oxford University Press, 2010), and a collaboration with Norwegian music educator Magne Espeland, "Creating in Music Learning Contexts," in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Recent journal articles include "Feeling it is how I understand it: Found Poetry as Analysis," International Journal of Education and the Arts, and "Vulnerability and Agency in Being and Becoming a Musician," Music Education Research.

In addition to serving on the CRME Bulletin board, she reviews for a range of journals, including Research Studies in Music Education, International Journal for Education and the Arts, Psychology of Music, and the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education.

 

Paul G. Woodford
Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Music Education
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Paul Woodford holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, and Northwestern University (Ph.D.) and is professor and former chair of the Department of Music Education at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, the University of Western Ontario. His interests in philosophical, historical, sociological, and political issues affecting the profession have led to many publications, including four books on the history of music in Newfoundland and Labrador, a fifth book, entitled Democracy and Music Education: Liberalism, Ethics, and the Politics of Practice (Indiana University Press, 2005), contributions to The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992), The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (2002), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education (in press), The 111^th National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook (in press), and many articles in professional journals. He is past chair of the executive committee of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (2005-7) and is a member of the advisory boards of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the British Journal of Music Education, and the Philosophy of Music Education Review.