Music Education - African Music
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Dr Dawn JosephHigher Diploma in Ed(Sec), BMus, BEd, MEd University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), PhD University of Pretoria (South Africa) Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia Tel: +61 (0)3 9244 6284
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Dawn Joseph is a Senior Lecturer in in Music and Education Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Dawn moved to Melbourne from Johannesburg (South Africa) where she was a specialist music teacher for ten years at Roedean School (an independent P-12 girls school) and for four years at St John's College (an independent years 9-12 boys school).
Dawn completed a Higher Diploma in Education (Secondary Music and Geography) and then Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Education and Master of Education degrees from the University of the Witswatersrand. Her research for the Bachelor of Education focused on 'Effective music education in a post-apartheid South Africa: a study of opinions in Lenasia'. This research was part of a wider research study entitled 'Constants and Variables in attitudes towards music education in the greater Johannesburg area' which was commissioned by the Human Science Research Council of Pretoria, South Africa (1993). During her study for the Master of Education degree, Dawn specialised in Curriculum Development, Policy and Assessment and her thesis was entitled 'Class music in the Junior Secondary School: Three Independent Schools in the Johannesburg area'.
Dawn completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree with a thesis on 'Outcomes-based Education at Independent Schools in Gauteng, South Africa' at the University of Pretoria under the supervision of Professor Caroline van Niekerk. Her particular interest is in the Orff Schulwerk music teaching method and has successfully completed the three primary, the pre-primary and the advanced pre-primary Orff Schulwerk certificates in South Africa. In 1999 she was selected to participate in a special Orff Schulwerk program on African drumming under the direction of Professor Komla Amoaku from Ghana. Dawn has been an active member in the Orff Society of Southern Africa and still has close links with her South African Orff colleagues. In 1992 she studied at the Royal School of Church Music at Addington Palace (England), where she undertook training for choir, conducting, liturgy and organ playing. As a student, she sang alto for the University of the Witwatersrand choir and continued her choral singing under the direction of Richard Cock with the South African Broadcasting Choir (SABC).
Dawn's current area of research at Deakin University is the use of African music for teaching music concepts and cross-cultural engagement in generalist primary teacher education courses. She teaches in undergraduate and graduate pre-service courses as well as supervising post-graduate students undertaking EdD and PhD research. Dawn also acts as an examiner of external theses and research papers and has published articles and presented papers / seminars on the use of African music in teacher education. She is convenor of an email list for teachers interested in teaching African music in primary and secondary schools and also maintains the African Music in Schools and Teacher Education: A Teaching Materials and Resources web site at http://www.deakin.edu.au/education/music-ed/african-music/.
During 2003, Dawn was invited to present a paper at the 2003 Conference of the Pan-African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE) held in Kisumu, Kenya, as the only Australian delegate (July 5-11, 2003). She gained approval from PASMAE to form an Australian Musical-Arts-Education Action Team (MAT) cell as the first overseas research and development group in the area of African music in education. Another invitation resulted in Dawn presenting an address to the First South Africa Colloquium on Indigenous Knowledge Systems held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (February 29-March 3, 2004).
She is currently Deputy Chairperson of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian
Society for Music Education and is a member of the Association of Music Educators
(Victoria) and the Australian Association for Research in Music Education. She
is also a member of the international review panel for Teacher Development:
An International Journal of Teachers' Professional Development and is a
member of the editorial committee of Australian Online Journal of Arts
Education and The Victorian Journal of Music Education. Dawn
is actively engaged in music education research as a member of The Arts
in Education Faculty Research Group and is convenor of the Arts Bites
Lunchtime Seminar Series. Dawn continues to perform as a church musician.
Joseph, D. (2007) Music Education in Australia: Valuing Cultural Diversity, Victorian Journal of Music Education, 2007, pp. 28-38, The Australian Society for Music Education, Parkville, Australia
Joseph, D. and Southcott, J. (2007) Retaining the frisson of the 'other': imperialism, assimilation, integration and multiculturalism in Australian schools, Music Education Research, Vol 9, No 1, pp. 35-48, Routledge, UK
Joseph, D. and van Niekerk, C. (2007) Music education and minority groups cultural and musical identities in the 'newer' South Africa: white Afrikaners and Indians, Intercultural Education, Vol 18, No 5, pp. 487-499, Taylor & Francis, UK
Joseph, D. (2007) Old hat new fabric: an African-Orff approach supporting values education in Australia, Musicworks: Journal of the Australian Council of Orff Schulwerk, Vol 12, No 1, pp. 42-46, ANCOS, Sydney
Southcott, J. and Joseph, D. (2007) From Empire to filmi: a fusion of western and Indian cultural practices in Australian music education, International Journal of Music Education, Vol 25, No 3, pp. 235-243, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom
Joseph, D. (2007) Jabulani Africa: Celebrating music making and finding meaning in Australia, in Stanberg, A., McIntosh, J. and Faulkner, R. (eds), Celebrating Musical Communities, Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary National Conference, pp. 126-129, Australian Society for Music Education Incorporated, Nedlands, Australia
Joseph, D. and Arber, R. (2007) Transmitting music through culture: a way forward to harmonise a discordant world, in P. Jeffrey (ed.), AARE Conference Papers - 2006, pp. 1-8, AARE, Melbourne
Joseph, D. and Southcott, J. (2007) Multiculturalism in arts education: engaging schools in effective and authentic pedagogies, in P. Jeffrey (ed.), AARE Conference Papers - 2006, pp. 1-6, AARE, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2007) Sharing and Speaking about African Music: Professional development with Swaziland Primary School Teachers, in de Vries, P. and Southcott, J. (eds), Music Education Research: Values and Initiatives, Procedings of the XXIXth Annual Conference, pp. 81-88, Australian Association for Research in Music Education, Melbourne, Australia
Southcott, J. and Joseph, D. (2007) Perceptions of multiculturalism in music education: What matters and why, in de Vries, P. and Southcott, J. (eds), Music Education Research: Values and Initiatives, Procedings of the XXIXth Annual Conference, pp. 137-143, Australian Association for Research in Music Education, Melbourne, Australia
Southcott, J. and Joseph, D. (2007) So much to do, so little time: Multicultural practices and Australian school music, in Stanberg, A., McIntosh, J. and Faulkner, R. (eds), Celebrating Musical Communities, Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary National Conference, pp. 199-202, Australian Society for Music Education Incorporated, Nedlands, Australia
Joseph, D. (2006). Learning, Linking and Participating: Transmitting African Music in Australian Schools . In Minette. Mans (Ed). Centering on Practice: African Musical Arts Education, pp.90-101, Stellenbosch: African Minds.
Joseph, D. (2006) Different Rhythms to Similar Tunes: African Beats in Action Across two Continents, Victorian Journal of Music Education, pp. 39-44, ASME , Melbourne.
Joseph, D. (2006) Managing Change without Sacrificing Quality: Music Teaching and Learning at South African Tertiary Institutions, Australian Journal of Music Education,Vol 1, pp. 18-24, ASME, Melbourne.
Joseph, D. & White, S. (2006) Team teaching in teacher education: towards an interdisciplinary approach, Making teaching public: reforms in teacher education - proceedings of the 2006 Australian Teacher Education Association National Conference, pp. 222-231, ATEA, Australia.
Joseph, D. (2006) Cultural understanding: rethinking music teacher education in a multicultural Australia, International Society for Music Education: proceedings of the 27th World Conference, pp. 621-646, ISME, Malaysia.
Joseph, D. & Southcott, J. (2006) Abstract: "Bombay mix": Indian music in Australian schools,International Society for Music Education: proceedings of the 27th world conference, p. 1, ISME, Malaysia.
White, S. & Joseph, D. (2006) The power of rhythm and words: from little things big things grow,Voices, vibes and visions: hearing the voices, feeling the vibes, capturing the visions - proceedings of the AATE/ALEA national conference 2006, pp. 1-10, AATE/ALEA, Australia.
Joseph, D. & Southcott, J. (2006) The blind men and the elephant: music education in a changing world , AARME Conference Proceedings, Melbourne, September 2006, pp.66-70.
Joseph, D. (2006). Cross- and Intercultural engagement: A case study in self-reflection and finding meaning . In P. Burnard & S. Hennessy (Eds.). Reflective Practices in Arts Education, Springer: Netherlands.
Joseph, D. (2005) Masakhane: drumming up an effective music curriculum for pre-service teacher education, Doing the Public Good: Positioning Educational Research - AARE 2004 International Education Research Conference Proceedings, pp. 1-8, AARE, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2005) Travelling drum with different beats: experiencing African music and culture in Australian teacher education, Teacher development: an international journal of teachers' professional development, Vol 9 No 3, pp. 287-300, Triangle Press, London
Joseph, D. and Southcott, J. (2005) Empowering Australian students in African music: experiential education in primary teacher training, 5th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research Proceedings, pp. 1-11, APSMER, Seattle, USA]
Joseph, D. (2005) Celebrating the use of African music: change in motion, A celebration of voice: ASME XV national conference proceedings, pp. 128-133, ASME, Melbourne
Joseph, D. and Keast, S. (2005) Professional development: the singing ear sees and does, A celebration of voice: ASME XV national conference proceedings, pp. 134-140, ASME, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2005) A new voice in a new place: musical encounters with a difference, Australian Online Journal of Arts Education, Vol 1, No 1, pp. 1-9, Deakin University, Melbourne
Joseph, D. and Southcott, J. (2005) Primary teacher training at Deakin University: an Australian experience learning another kind of music, Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, Vol 3 No 2, pp. 63-82, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Joseph, D. (2005) 'I sing my home and dance my land': crossing music boundaries in a changing world, Cultural diversity in music education: directions and challenges for the 21st century, pp. 151-160, Australian Academic Press, Australia
Joseph, D. and Klopper, C. (2005) Musical arts education in Africa: differentiation, integration and disassociation, Australian Association of Research in Music Education Proceedings of the XXVIIth Conference, pp. 81-88, AARME, Sydney
Joseph, D. (2005) Localising indigenous knowledge systems down under: sharing different worlds with once voice, Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Vol 4, No 1, pp. 295-305, Indilinga, South Africa
Joseph, D. (2005) Experiencing change: an inside view from the outside, Australian Journal of Music Education, No 1, pp. 48-55, ASME, Melbourne
Southcott, J. and Joseph, D. (2005) Other musics in the classroom: from assimilation to multiculturalism in Australian school music, A celebration of voice: ASME XV national conference proceedings, pp. 241-246, ASME, Melbourne
Southcott, J. and Joseph, D. (2005) Integration and multiculturalism in music in Australian schools: has/can/should the leopard change its spots?, Australian Association of Research in Music Education Proceedings of the XXVIIth Conference, pp. 150-156, AARME, Sydney
Joseph, D. (2004) Smaller steps into longer journeys: experiencing African music and expressing culture, Australian Association for Research in Music Education: Proceedings of the XXVIth annual conference, pp. 216-225, AARME, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2004) The African difference: results and implications of using African music in teacher education , Artistic Practice as Research: proceedings of the XXVth annual conference, pp. 1-7, AARME, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2004) Communicating the sounds of Africa to Australian teacher education students, Sound worlds to discover: XXVI world conference 2004 proceedings, pp. 1-5, ISME, Madrid
Joseph, D. (2004) Orff to an African Beat: an Australian experience in teacher education, Ostinato, Vol 30, No 2, pp. 9-13, Carl Orff Canada, Canada
Joseph, D. (2003) Teacher attitudes and perceptions of primary school music education at independent schools in South Africa, Australian Association for Research in Music Education: Proceedings of the XXIII Annual Conference, pp. 43-51, AARME, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2003) Cross cultural engagement: Teaching African music to Australian students, Curriculum Innovation in Music: Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, pp. 142-147, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Joseph, D. (2003) Reflections on the 2003 PASMAE conference: an inside view from the outside, ASME Bulletin, Vol 13, No 4, pp. 5-8, Australian Society for Music Education, 2003
Joseph, D. (2003) Reflections of teacher education students learning of rhythm: Orff to an African beat, Victorian Journal of Music Education , 2002/2003, pp. 2-7, Australian Society for Music Education, Melbourne
Joseph, D. (2003) An African music odyssey: introducing a cross-cultural music curriculum to Australian primary teacher education students, Music Education International, Vol 2, pp. 98-111, International Society for Music Education, Perth
Joseph, D. (2003) ISME regional conference, Kisumu, Kenya PASMAE 2003 highlights from sunrise to sunset, ISME newsletter, October/November, p. 9, ISME, Perth
Joseph, D. (2003) African music and the Orff approach, The Orff Beat, Vol XXXII, No 1, pp. 11-12, Orff Schulwerk Society, Sydney
Joseph, D. (2002) Umoja: Teaching African music to generalist teacher education students, Research Matters: Linking outcomes with practice - Proceedings of the XXIVth annual conference, pp. 86-98, AARME, Adelaide
Joseph, D. (2002) Teachers reactions to outcomes-based music education in South African primary schools, Research Studies in Music Education, No 18, pp. 62-73, Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education, Australia
Joseph, D.Y. (2003), African Music in Schools and Teacher Education: A Teaching Materials and Resources Site, Deakin University.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/education/music-ed/african-music/
International Society for Music Education (Member)
Deputy Chair, Victorian Chapter of the Australian Society for Music Education
Member, Australian Association for Research in Education
International Member, Advisory Committee, Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education
Convenor, Australian MAT (Musical Arts Education Action Team) Cell, Pan-African Society for Musical Arts Education
Member, Editorial Boards for Teacher Development: An
International Journal of Teacher Professional Development and The Victorian Journal of Music Education
Member of Editorial Committee for the Australian Online Journal of Arts Education
Member of the Royal School of Music
Coordinator of "Arts Bites" Seminar Series, "The Arts in Education"
Faculty Research Group, Deakin University
South African Secretariate of the International Centre for African Music and Dance (Member)
The May Day Group - Action for Change in Music Education (Member)
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