Dr. Janet Revell Barrett, the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents Conundrums and Capabilities: Music Teacher Education in Challenging Times and Dr. Shelley Griffin, Associate Professor of Music Education in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, presents Attending to Vulnerability in Music Teacher Education: Exposing Lives Through Body Mapping.
6:30 pm, Room 120 of the Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Biographies
Janet Revell Barrett holds the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses in philosophy, research methods, music teacher education, and interdisciplinary approaches to the curriculum. Her current research interests include teacher agency and the curricular imagination of music teachers. Barrett is the editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.
Shelley Griffin is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. She has research interests in children’s music narratives, pre-service music teacher education, narrative inquiry, informal faculty mentorship, and collaborative scholarship. Shelley is published in several journals and edited books, and she has presented at various Canadian and international conferences on music education and teacher education. In addition to her scholarship, Shelley is an active musician in the Niagara, Ontario region, performing regularly as a soprano with Avanti Chamber Singers.