Music Policy: Cultural, Educational and Mass Media

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2010 Seminar

Please visit the following page for further information: http://www.isme.org/2010/commission_seminars.html

ISME Style Guide should be used for full papers - download from the above link (available in various formats on the right column).

Mission

It is the Commission's mission:

to examine and explore issues concerning cultural, education and media policy development and implementation;
to provide an international forum for debate, exchange of information, communication, critical analysis and expansion of knowledge regarding policy development;
to recognize the dynamic nature of policy development and music education by responding to issues identified in meetings of the Commission;
to promote international collaboration through developing joint research projects across different geographic regions;
to disseminate the proceedings of seminars internationally; and
to ensure the broadest possible geographic representation at Commission seminars, including new and experienced researchers.

The International Society for Music Education (ISME) recognises that the lived experience of music and music making is a vital part of the everyday life of all people. Its mission is:

to build and maintain a worldwide community of music educators characterized by mutual respect and support;
to foster international and intercultural understanding and cooperation, by providing accessible opportunities for individuals, national and international groups to share knowledge, experiences and expertise in music education; and
to nurture, advocate and promote music education and education through music in all parts of the world.

Commissioners 2008-2010

Co-Chair, J. Scott Goble (Canada)
Co-Chair, Rita Lai Chi Yip (Hong Kong)
Schalk Fredericks (South Africa)
Tadahiko Imada (Japan)
Neryl Jeanneret (Australia)
Jiaxing Xie (China)

	J. Scott GOBLE J. Scott Goble (Ph.D., Michigan) is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He began his music education career teaching in public school districts near Seattle, Washington, later serving on the music faculties of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Boston University, and San Francisco State University. As specialist in vocal and choral music, he has conducted choirs and orchestras in professional, community, and educational contexts throughout North America. His research focuses on topics in history and philosophy of music education, music cognition and semiotics, and music and social issues.
	Lai Chi Rita YIP Lai Chi Rita Yip (BA, LRSM, PGDE, MA, PhD) is Assistant Professor of the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts and the Course Leader of the Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Secondary) Full-time Programme of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She has also served on the Curriculum Development Council and the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority to help with formulating the Music Curriculum Guide (Primary 1 – Secondary 3) & the Music Curriculum and Assessment Guide (Secondary 4 - 6) in addition to the setting of Standards-Based Reporting and School-Based Music Assessment of the new senior secondary music. Besides being editors of books, guest editor and reviewer of journal papers, she has numerous papers presented in international music education conferences and published locally or overseas. Her research interests are in music curriculum and policies, music technology & creativity, musicianship development, assessment in music education, cross-curricular arts education, and, ethno-musicology.
	Neryl JEANNERET Neryl Jeanneret is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Music in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. She has lectured to pre-service teachers in Australia, Canada and the United States and her publications include national and international journal articles as well as books and teacher support materials for the Australian Music Centre, Musica Viva, Opera Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the NSW Board of Studies and the NSW Department of School Education. She was the National President of the Australian Society for Music Education (2003-05), and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Music Education since 1996. Her current research includes the role of arts organisations and community artists in education and the development of educational software for the music classroom.
	Schalk FREDERICKS Schalk Fredericks obtained a B.Mus and Performer’s Diploma at the University of Cape Town in 1974 and plays the violin and piano. He has Masters degrees in Education and Public and Development Management. He lectured at the Rand College of Education from 1976 to 1989 for Junior and Senior Primary teacher training and appointed as music subject advisor in 1990. He is a music examiner for the Gauteng Department of Education and served as external examiner at the Johannesburg College of Education for a number of years. He is presently a member of the Academic Support Services Unit at the North West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
	Tadahiko IMADA Tadahiko Imada is an Associate Professor at Hirosaki University in Japan, teaching music education based on philosophy, body movements and the concept of soundscape. He holds a B.Mus. from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo; an MA from Simon Fraser University where he studied as a recipient of a Government of Canada Award; and his Ph.D. is from the University of British Columbia in Canada. His publications appeared on many academic journals in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Sweden, Korea, Hong Kong, India and Japan. He is co-author of A Little Sound Education (together with R. Murray Schafer, 1996). Prior to joining the faculty at Hirosaki University, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Roehampton Institutes London in UK. He was Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee at Martin in the US in 2002. He has been appointed as Vice-director of the International Music Centre at Hirosaki University since 2005.
	Jia-xing XIE Jia-xing Xie is the Professor and the Director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory, the specially hired professor of the Art Institute of Henan University and a member of the External Examination Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He holds a Masters Degree in Composition and Theory (1988) and a Ph.D. in Music Aesthetics (2004). He is the President of the Music Education Commission of Chinese Musicians Association, the Director of the Music Aesthetic Committee of CMA, the Director of the Music Psychology Society, the adviser of Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, and Commissioner of Commission on Music in Cultural, Educational, and Mass Media Policies of the International Society of Music Education. Xie’s recent major publications include: Music Education and Pedagogy (High Education Press, 2006), Contexts of Musics —A Vision of the Music Hermeneutic (Shanghai Conservatory Press, 2005) etc., and he has had over 80 major academic papers published on academic journals such as People’s Music, China Music and Music Research since 1994.