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Associate Professor Jane Southcott

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Job title:Associate Professor
Qualifications:B.Mus.(Hons), Dip.Ed., M.A.(Music Education), Ph.D.(Deakin).
Phone:+61 3 990 52810
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 328
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Research interests

  • Music education and research in music education. Music curriculum history in Australia, America and Europe. Phenomenological research in Music/Performing Arts and positive ageing. Community music, positive ageing, and arts and multiculturalism.

Selected publications

  • Joseph, D. & Southcott, J. (2011). Embracing cultural diversity in Australian music teacher education. Music Education Research and Innovation, 14(1), 7-14.
  • Southcott, J. & Crawford, R. (2011). The Intersections of curriculum development: Music, ICT and Australian music education. Australasian Journal of Education Technology, 27(1), 122-136.
  • Joseph, D. & Southcott, J. (2010). Experiences and Understandings: Student teachers' beliefs about multicultural practice in music education. Australian Journal of Music Education, 2, 66-75.
  • Stevens, R. & Southcott, J. (2010). Australia: Recurring problems and unresolved issues. In Gordon Cox & Robin Stevens (Eds.). Origins and Foundations of Music Education. London, Continuum International Publishing Group, 171-187.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2010). Many layers of Meaning: Multicultural Music Education in Victoria, Australia. International Journal of the Humanities, 8(2), 189-200.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2010). Engaging, exploring and experiencing multicultural music in Australian music teacher education. Journal of Music Teacher Education, 20(1), 8-26.
  • Southcott, J.E. (2009). The Melbourne UNESCO Seminar, 1956: A watershed in Australian music education. In Martin Comte (Ed.) Musical dimensions A Festschrift for Doreen Bridges, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 80-98.
  • Joseph, D.Y. & Southcott, J.E. (2009). Opening the doors to multiculturalism: Australian pre-service music teacher education students understandings of cultural diversity. Music Education Research, 11(4), pp. 457-472.
  • Southcott, J.E. (2009). And as I go, I love to sing: The Happy Wanderers, music and positive ageing. International Journal of Community Music, 2(2&3), 143-156.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2009). Sharing community through singing: The Bosnian Behar Choir in Victoria, Australia. e-journal of studies in music education, 8(2), 17-27, http://www.merc.canterbury.ac.nz/sound_ideas.shtml.
  • Southcott, J.E. (2009). The Seeking Attitude: Ideas that influenced Satis N. Coleman. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, XXXI(1), 20-36.
  • Southcott, J.E. & Lee, A.H-C. (2008).Missionaries and Tonic Sol-fa Pedagogy in Nineteenth Century China. IJME, 26(3), 213-228.
  • Southcott, J.E. & Simmonds, J.G. (2008). Performance anxiety and the inner critic: A case study. Australian Journal of Music Education, 1, 32-37.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2007). So much to do, so little time: Multicultural practices in Australian school music. ASME Conference Proceedings, 203-206.
  • Southcott, J. & Simmonds, J. (2007). It goes to where you live: Psychological and physiological manifestations of performance anxiety. AARME Proceedings, 144-153.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2007). From Empire to filmi: A fusion of Western and Indian cultural practices in Australian music education. International Journal of Music Education, 235-243.
  • Southcott, J. & Simmonds, J. (2007). Someone is always listening: Performance anxiety and the perception of audience. ASME Conference Proceedings, 203-206.
  • Southcott, J. (2007). Early 19th century music pedagogy German and English connections. British Journal of Music Education, 24:3, 313-333.
  • Southcott, J. (2007). Elemental music, experience and values education. Musicworks, 12, pp. 52-57
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2007) Retaining a frisson of the 'other': Imperialism, Assimilation, Integration and Multiculturalism in Australian schools. Music Education Research, 9(1), 35-48.
  • Southcott, J. & Simmonds, J. (2006). A case study in performance tension: Responding to the vulnerable child. Proceedings Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 111-115.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2006). The blind men and the elephant: music eduaiton in a changing world. Proceedings Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 66-70.
  • Southcott, J. & De Vries, P. (2006). Bright and breezy: past and present practices in pre-school music education. Proceedings Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 104-110.
  • Southcott, J. & Hartwig, K. (2005). States of change: A comparison of school musi curricula initiatives in Queensland and Victoria. Proceedings Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 142-149.
  • Southcott, J. (2006). Putting on a show: Music theatre and authentic context experiential learning in music education. AARE, published online SOU06693
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2006). Multicultuarlism in arts education: Engaging schools in effective and authentic pedagogies. AARE, published online JOS06692.
  • Southcott, J. (2006). Changing the voices of teachers and children: Singing and elocution in South Australia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, XXVIII(1), 53-70.
  • Southcott, J. (2005). Removing the 'Australian twang and slang': vocal health, singing tone and enunciation in school music in South Australia. Proceedings Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 134-141.
  • Southcott, J. & Joseph, D. (2005). Primary teacher training at Deakin University: An Australian experience learning another music. Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, 3(2), 63-82.
  • Southcott, J. (2005) Six ways at once: effective curriculum change in primary music education - an historical model. ASME XV National Conference, CD ROM, 235-240.
  • Southcott, J. (2003). Experiential education: a new "perspective" on tertiary music education. Australian Journal for Music Education, 1, 16-24
  • Southcott, J. (2003). Imperialism in school music: common experiences in two different countries. International Journal of Music Education, 40, 28-39
  • Southcott, J., & Smith, R. (2003). Experiential learning in European pedagogies: The value of structured responses in reflective journals. Paper presented at The Australian Society for Music Education Inc. XIV National Conference, Darwin, Australia
  • Southcott, J. (2003). The origins of colonial class music education in South Australia: a Sunday school was established. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Hong Kong
  • Southcott, J. (2003). A Knight of Song: F.L. Gratton. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Music Education Inc. XXIII Annual Conference, Newcastle, Australia
  • Southcott, J. (2002). A tale of two brothers: E. Harold and H. Walford Davies. AARME 24th National Conference, Adelaide. 179-186
  • Southcott, J. & Smith R. (2002). Reflection and inspiration: Uniderstanding music pedagogies through journal writing. AARME 24th National Conference, Adelaide. 187-192
  • Southcott, J. (2002). "Now the Labourer's Task is O'er": Alexander Clark and the foundation of school music in South Australia. Journal Historical Society of South Australia no. 30, 24-38
  • Southcott, J. (2001). Sarah Glover: Music Educator and Theoretician. 3rd Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research. 75-80
  • Southcott, J. (2001). "A Knight of Song": F.L. Gratton. AARME 23rd National Conference, Newcastle. 151-158
  • Southcott, J. (2000). Songs for Young Australians. AARME 22nd National Conference, Melbourne. 164-171
  • Southcott, J. (1998). Evaluating music education: the role and processes of historical inquiry. In Directions for the 21st Century: research in music assessment and evaluation. XIX Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Music Education, Griffith University, - 28-30 September, 1997. Sydney: AARME, 33 - 42.
  • Southcott, J. (1996). Curriculum stasis: Gratton in South Australia. AARME 18th National Conference, Sydney. 51-59.
  • Southcott, J. (1995). Daniel Batchellor and the American Tonic Sol-fa Movement' Journal of Research in Music 43(1), 60-83.
  • Southcott, J. (1995). The establishment of the music curriculum in South Australia: the role of Alexander Clark' Research Studies in Music Education 5,1-10.
  • Southcott, J. (1995). Glover's intellectual odyssey. AMEL 17th National Conference.Woollongong: University of Woollongong, 83-90.
  • Southcott, J. (1995). How to implement curriculum change in classroom music: a nineteenth century precident. Honing the craft: improving the quality of music education. Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) 10th National Conference, Tasmania.

See Jane Southcott in the Monash Research Directory

Supervision

Effective professional development in music for early childhood teachers

Community music in regional Australia

Culture and community music amongst older Australians

Maintenance of community and heritage languages

Sound learning - applying music theory and understanding in tertiary education

Music and stress management

Authentic learning and digital technology in the music classroom

Engaging boys and school music

Primary School Music Education: National Review, Regional Context, Local Practice

Entry level music theory knowledge in first year tertiary students

Adult music education: Rewards and challenges

Attribution theory and music engagement.

The development of instrumental music programs in Victorian state supported schools

The teaching of Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Australia in the 1920s.

Parental involvement in musical training of violin students.

The effect of orthodontic apertures on clarinet instrumental instruction

The influence of the Tonic Sol-fa method on the development of the school music curriculum in Victoria

The role of music literacy in contemporary classroom music practice

The development of school music in Taiwan, 1895-1995

Curriculum developmens in classroom music in Victorian State Secondary schools,1989-2001

Classroom music in Victorian state primary schools 1934 to 1981: curriculum support

Australian women music teachers, performers and composers from 1890 to 1930

Strategies for attention control for intermediate standard adolescent students

Editorial

  • Journal of Historical Research in Music Education Australian Journal of Music Education Musicworks (Orff Schulwerk Australia)

Professional associations

Executive member and Publications Officer, Australian Association for Research in Music Education

Trustee, Heather Gell Dalcroze Trust, Australia

Community service

Trustee, Heather Gell Dalcroze Foundation

Past president, treasurer and conference convenor, Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education