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Navigating Music and Sound Education
savetoDISC is proud to promote the release of the second in the Cambridge Scholars Press Meaningful Music making for life book Series: Navigating Music and Sound Education edited by Julie Ballantyne and Brydie Leigh Bartleet.
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Navigating Music and Sound Education has been specifically written for pre-service teachers who are studying music education curriculum or pedagogy subjects. It features the voices of leading international academics in the field to illuminate issues of importance in preparing pre-service teacher education students. The engaging examples provided in each chapter are drawn from real-life educational settings, and enable readers to critically explore the perspectives presented by the authors and consider the application of such perspectives in their future practice.
“We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!” —Professor Graham F. Welch, University of London; President, International Society of Music Education
“Navigating Music and Sound Education draws together a range of issues increasingly acknowledged to be at the basis of reflective and effective music learning and teaching: social settings, cultural dimensions, gender, indigeneity, varying cognitive approaches, inter-disciplinary connections, technology, types of learning, and creativity. It opens up areas of pedagogy that go beyond classroom methodology to acknowledge student individuality and encourage music learning and teaching grounded in the reality of students’ musical and social lives. It will be invaluable for those training to become educators and for teachers already in the field.”
—Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall, University of Sydney
“This book brings an important contribution to music teacher education as it challenges the readers to rethink their paradigms of music education. It highlights the importance of preparing a reflective teacher, autonomous, creative and conscious of the multifaceted and multicultural locus in which they will work. The book also draws on the importance for music teachers to consider the context in which they work, and establish a dialog between local musical traditions, informal music practices and global trends of music teaching and learning. Most importantly, all chapters are in one way or another derived from research carried out on specific areas, thus stressing the importance of the research informed practice in music education.” —Professor Liane Hentschke, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; International Society of Music Education Immediate Past President
Dr Julie Ballantyne 
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet.
About the editors
Dr Julie Ballantyne has taught classroom music to students at both Primary and Secondary levels. She completed her PhD in music teacher education in 2005 and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Education. She was the principal investigator on the recent 2006 Carrick Institute Competitive Grant, ‘Bridging gaps in music teacher education: developing exemplary practice models using peer collaboration.’ She has published in the areas of identities of early-career music teacher, comparisons between early-career and pre-service music teachers’ perceptions of course effectiveness, trends in teacher education, and philosophical allegiances of early-career music teachers and subject choice of secondary school students.
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Griffith University, where she is working on the ARC funded project, ‘Sound Links: Exploring the dynamics of musical communities in Australia and their potential for informing collaboration with music in schools’. She has worked as a Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has published widely on issues relating to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist pedagogy, and is currently editing two books on music research and autoethnography. She is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music.
Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartlett and Carolyn Ellis “Blending rigorous scholarship with richly layered exquisite accounts of music making, this book will be an invaluable reference for students and researchers journeying into the field of music research.” Dr Pamela Burnard, , Senior Lecturer in Music Education, University of Cambridge and Co-editor of Reflective Practices in Arts Education and the British Journal of Music Education.
Troubling Empowerment: A feminist critique of a rural women and communication technology project
Participatory research methodologies and interactive communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as offering ways of enhancing women¿s empowerment and rural community development. However, some researchers suggest the need for caution about such claims. This book details findings from an evaluation of a feminist action research project that explored the impacts of ICTs for rural women in Queensland, Australia, in terms of personal, business and community development. Using praxis and poststructuralist feminist theories and methodologies, this innovative study presents a rigorous analysis and critique of women’s empowerment and participation. This study demonstrates the value of adopting a critical yet pragmatic approach that takes diversity and difference, power-knowledge relations, and the contradictory effects of participation into account. This is argued to enable the development of more effective strategies for women¿s empowerment, participation and inclusion. This book should be of particular interest to researchers, postgraduate students, and others working in the fields of communication, gender, and rural development, and feminist evaluation and ethnography.
About the Author
Dr June Lennie is a Senior Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She has significant expertise in conducting action research and evaluation projects and evaluation capacity building, and has published widely in her field. She is the co-author of Action Research and New Media (Hampton Press, 2009).
Musical Islands: Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research
Editors: Elizabeth Mackinlay, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Katelyn Barney
Date Of Publication: Jun 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0956-6
Isbn: 1-4438-0956-X
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.