Leading Music Education International Conference

Riding the Contours of Marketing: Exploring the Depths of Educational Materials through Critical Theory

Leslie Linton, The University of Western Ontario

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Therapeutic Music Education: A Model Linking Experience of Music Education with Music Therapy

Elizabeth Mitchell, Wilfred Laurier University

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Music Improvisation as Cultural Phenomenon and Its Implications for Music Education at the Undergraduate Level

Augusto Monk, University of Toronto

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Stimulate Cognitive Abilities by Music to Avoid Academic Failure: A French Experiment

Aurelie Lecoq, University of Burgundy, France
Bruno Suchaut, University of Burgundy, France

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The Big Bang! The Importance of Making a Racket to Build Stronger Community Links

Richard Marsella

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Examining the Musical Identity of Pre-service Generalist Teachers: Origins and Implications

Leslie Linton, The University of Western Ontario
Carol Beynon, The University of Western Ontario

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

"Musical Life Histories:" A Practical Strategy for Enacting Music Education as a Practice of Social Justice

Lise Vaugeois, University of Toronto

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

There's Madness in (Your Notion of) Method: The Popular Misconception of Method and Its Effects on Music Education

Paul Louth, Youngstown State University

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

I Can't Speak but I Can Sing: How Singing Restored One Woman's Faith in Her Voice While Dealing with Spasmodic Dysphonia

Kay Kleinerman, Institue of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Teacher Leadership in Determing the Role of Evaluative Performances in Piano Students' Musical Development

Nancy Mitchell, University of Toronto

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Closing a Private Music Studio: An Experiential Study

Sharon Lierse, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Music-Making at Prehistoric Sites Helping to Understand Present Intuition of Music

Dylan Adams, National Museum of Wales

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Music in the Belly: Music and Mother-Child Interaction

Kaarina Marjanen, University of Eastern Finland

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Music: What It Means to Us, and Why a Pragmatic Approach for Music Educators

James Imhoff, Boston University

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Researching Traditional Music Cultures: Youth as Ethnographers

Valerie Peters, Laval University
Marie-Hélène Biliodeau, Laval University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Transition Into the Teaching Profession: Induction and Mentoring Issues Surrounding Secondary Music Teachers

Mark Kissel, Brock University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM