Associate ProfessorJames Humberstone
Associate Professor in Music Education
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Associate Professor in Music EducationSydney Conservatorium of Music
LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy
Author and lecturer: The University of Sydney's first MOOC, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education (over 7,000 enrolled to date)
Lecturer:
- MUED1010 Key Ideas in Music Education*
- MUED1005 Key Approaches in Music Education *
- MUED1008 Fundamentals of Teaching ^
- MUED2301 Music Learning Through Community Service
- MUED3603 Composition in Music Education ^
- MUED3604 Ensemble Pedagogy *
- MUED3605 Junior Secondary Music Education *
- MUED4002 Technology in Music Education ^
- MUED4006 Popular Music Studies *
- MUED4602 Senior Secondary Music Education *
- MUED4632 Professional Issues in Music Education
- EDMT5700 Music Curriculum 1 *
- EDMT5701 Music Curriculum 1 Extension ^
- EDMT5702 Music Curriculum 2 *
- EDMT6639 Music Curriculum 3
- CMPN2320 Notation & Publishing ^
- OLET1803 Digital Skills: Sound *
- OLET1821 Music and social media
^ Current Unit of Study author and coordinator
* Past Unit of Study author and coordinator
Current and past research students
Composition portfolio; Thesis: Compositional techniques of Jason Robert Brown.
Composition portfolio; Thesis: Australian Music for Double Bass
Creativity in High School Music Education: Student-Centred Composition
Performance practice in piano recordings created for social media within the context of a century of interpretive stagnation.
Composition portfolio; Thesis: Benjamin Britten's polytechnical works.
Investigating the Musical Identities of Secondary Students Enrolled in Extracurricular Music Ensembles.
Digital Game Based Learning in Music: Does Rocksmith teach guitar?
An Investigation of Music Participation in High Schools within a Coastal Area of NSW, Australia.
Portfolio; Thesis: Modulating poly-temporal music for computer and musicians
Riding the wonky donkey of Evidence-based practice: Resisting neoliberalisation through active work in music education
Teaching Rap: A Case Study of the Uses of Hip-Hop in Music Education Settings in Sydney, Australia.
An Investigation and Evaluation of Singing Teachers’ Pedagogical Strategies and Repertoire Choices When Working With Adolescent Students.
Quality Music Teaching in New South Wales? How School Music Programs Promote Consistent High Achievement in the Higher School Certificate.
The factors in the relationship between a record label and a recording artist that influence the success of the relationship and the resulting creative and commercial outcomes.
Teacher Retention in Australian Music Education
Building primary teacher confidence in music education through connections to rich literature.
Composition portfolio; Thesis: Well-Tempered Pianists: Beginner Piano Pedagogy in Independent Australian Studios.
Informal Learning and the Emergence of Electronic Dance Music.
Mind the Gap: Planning, Modelling, and Consultation in Online Music Professional Learning
Play in secondary music education
Learning and Creating Music in the Digital Age: Degrees of Formality in the Music Classroom
Technology in Music Education in the Time of a Pandemic
Dropping out of Music: Attrition in Three Academically Selective High Schools.
Informal Learning in NSW Schools
“A Real Composer”: Teaching And Learning Composition
In New South Wales Secondary Schools.
The Use of TikTok in Music Education: A Multiple Case Study.
Adaptive Learning in Music Appreciation Courses
An authoethnographic account of conducting a multicultural youth choir : Creating an ethical model for choirs of diversity.
“When are we doing ‘real’ music?”: Exploring the connection between songwriting programs and students’ engagement in music learning.
Gendered Fields of Music: A Bourdieusian Inquiry into Chinese Higher Music Education