BU Music Education and the American Education Research Association National Meeting

First published on January 8, 2018 | Tess Nielsen

April 13 – 17, New York, New York, 2018

In April, BU Music Education students, alumni, and faculty will have a strong presence at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association. AERA is “a national research society” that has as its mission “to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.”

To forward the conversation about innovation and change in music education, 7 of the 30 papers accepted by AERA’s Music Education Special Interest Group were authored by researchers affiliated with BU. This year’s conference, which has as its theme “The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education,” will be held from April 13–17 in New York City. The 5-day meeting is typically attended by about 15,000 educational researchers from across the country and around the world.

We congratulate the presenters and applaud their words and deeds in music education!

Heather Cote (DMA, ’16): Participating in a symposium entitled “Music Teacher Evaluation: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?”

Kary Haddad (DMA ’18): “The Lived Experience of High School Musical Theater”

Adria Hoffman (Dissertation Supervisor) and Denisse Stanbery (DMA ’17): “Latina/o Representation in Music Education Scholarship”

Dr. Ronald P. Kos (Faculty): “Preservice Teachers’ Early Beliefs About Music Education”

David Ledgerwood (DMA ’17): “Musical Homeschooling in Southern Wisconsin: A Collective Case Study”

Tess Nielsen (DMA ’16): “Digital Music Discovery, Self-Production, and Sharing Among Adolescents”

Deejay Robinson (MM ’16), Tawnya Smith (Faculty), Karin Hendricks (Faculty): “Cause I Know: Breaking the Silence About Racism in American Music Education”