My research is in the area of gender in music and music education. Currently I am completing community music research project on the Kingston Symphony Association and a series of articles on Ruth Crawford Seeger as a music educator. I have studied the master teacher or mentor/apprentice model of music instruction and written feminist critiques of music education theory and philosophy and explored issues of sexuality in music and education. My dissertation topic was "Including women composers in music curricula: Development of creative strategies for the general music classes, gr. 5-8." I completed it and graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University in May, 1987. I am a founding member of Gender Research in Music Education (GRIME), a special interest research group with members in Canada, USA, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Japan and the UK.
From the time I began teaching at Queen's University I have worked with the local school boards and the Kingston Symphony Association to improve the quality of music education in the schools. The major focus has been the Kingston Symphony School Concerts for grade 4 students in both the public and separate schools. This program is now in its eleventh year and firmly established in the curricula, budgets, and organisational plans of the groups involved. The concerts are held in February and grade 4 students are bussed into a central location, usually a high school gym, where the symphony performs. A unique factor is that the grade 4 students always participate in the concert in some way, e.g., singing a song with the symphony. Another important feature is the presence of university students as practice teachers in the grade 4 classrooms both before and after the symphony concerts. In addition, curriculum packages and an in-service workshop are provided for all grade 4 teachers in the school districts. This programme has become a model of partnership among the school boards, the university, and the symphony (as a community organisation).
I was also very involved in organising the Queen's University Faculty Assocation union. Following union organisation I was a member of the QUFA negotiating team and assisted with the implementation of the first contract.
I began my teaching career in Oregon where I taught music in the Oregon City Schools. I also taught flute and other woodwind instruments and performed as a flutist. After my graduate studies in New York City I taught at Brandon University, Manitoba prior to arriving at Queen's University in 1988.
Margaret Thompson (education), M.Ed., July 2002, "Reading masculinities: A cross-cultural comparison of boys' relationships to and understanding of reading," external examiner.
Shari Ann Stoch (education), M.Ed., May 2000, "Zak: An adolescent with learning disabilities at home, at camp and at school," external examiner.
Ann Patteson (education), M.Ed., October 1999, "Singing a woman's life: How singing lessons transformed the lives of nine women," external examiner.
Hesook Lim (education), M.Ed., September 1999, "The relation between ethnic identity of female Asian students and their perceptions of teachers as role models", external examiner.
Erin Melvin (history), M.A., November 1998, "Peripatetic to Domestic: Gender and Change in Logging Camps on Vancouver Island, 1900-1955", external examiner
Roberta D. Spark (sociology), M.A., July 1998, "Men's Movements: Wolves in Sheeps Clothing", external examiner.
Tina N. Jagdego (history), M.A., July 1998, "Rocking the Nation: Rock and Roll, Teenage Identity and Mainstream Middle-Class Resistance", external examiner.
Sherry Johnson (music education), M.Ed., September 1997, "High-School Music Teachers' Meanings of Teaching World Musics", second committee member.
Lore Fredestrom (sociology), M.A., January 1997, "In Search of Resistance: Women, Music and Imaginary Spaces", co-supervisor with Annette Burfoot (sociology).
Kate Manson-Smith, (women's studies), 1996-1997, BAH thesis, supervisor.
Pamela Young, M.Ed. (music education), Faculty of Education, Queen's University, July 1996, "Emotion expressed through words and music: An examination of music listening lives," second committee member.
Karen Anne Boese, M.Ed. (education), Faculty of Education, Queen's University, July 1995, "Ordinary extraordinary lives: Examining the personal and professional lives of women teachers using a research group approach," external examiner.
Catherine Anne Websdale, M.Mus. (music education), Brandon University, July 1994, "A study of peer tutoring in beginning instrumental music (grades 7 and 8)," second committee member.
Andrea L. Nicki, M.A. (philosophy), Queen's University, May 1993, "Women and death," external examiner.
Jonelle Van Delft, "Feminism and the ordination of women in the Christian Reformed Church," B.A. Honours thesis, Women's Studies Program, April 1992, second committee member.
Minglin Chang, M.A. (sociology), Queen's University, September 1992, "Towards a feminist understanding of difference: Women's liberation in China, problems and prospects," external examiner.
Judith Popiel, M.Ed. (education), Faculty of Education, Queen's University, September 1991, "A view of the curriculum from the inside out: Exposing body/brain/heart narratives," second committee member.
Charlotte Bédard, M.A. (sociology), Queen's University, August 1991, "Can you give me a hand? A sociological analysis of self-help literature," external examiner.
Ann Marie Metcalfe, "A survey of musculoskeletal problems occurring to instrumental music students in the School of Music, Queen's University," B.A. Honours thesis, School of Rehabilitation, May 1991, assisted G. Elizabeth Tata with advising student.
Rodger Beatty, M.Ed. (music), Faculty of Education, Queen's University, September 1989, "Comparative study of a Kodaly-based developmental music program and a traditional public school music program at the kindergarten level," external examiner.
Shannon Graham, M.Mus. (music education), Brandon University, July 1989, "A comparison of the profiles of high- and low-achieving groups and their scores on the Manitoba Music Assessment Program," supervisor.
Timothy Kretchmer, M. Mus. (music education), Brandon University, August 1988, "A comparison of verbal and imitative instruction upon musical performance of eighth-grade instrumentalists," co-supervisor.
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