Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
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The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education provides a forum where contemporary research is made accessible to all with interest in music education. The Bulletin contains current research, and reviews of interest to the international music education profession.
The editors work with an advisory committee of music education's most prestigious researchers. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education provides an outlet for scholarly publication and is one of music education's leading publications.
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Awards
The Council for Research in Music Education
Outstanding Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations
Nomination and Review Procedures
- Broaden and/or advance conceptions of and/or approaches to music teaching and learning;
- Employ thoughtfully designed approaches to inquiry, including innovative methodologies as appropriate;
- Introduce new research and theory integrations grounded in a diversity of intellectual approaches; and
- Offer insightful implications for improving practice or forwarding theoretical constructs for music education.
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Editors
Co-Editors
Joseph Abramo, University of Connecticut
Patrick Schmidt, Teachers College, Columbia University
crme@illinois.edu
Associate Editor
Joyce McCall, Arizona State University
Director of the Outstanding Dissertation Award
Elizabeth Parker, Temple University
Bulletin Advisory Committee
- Loneka Battiste, University of Houston
- Christopher Baumgartner, University of Oklahoma
- Cathy Benedict, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Kim Councill, University of Utah
- Amanda Draper, Indiana University
- Karin Hendricks, Boston University
- Karen Howard, University of St. Thomas
- Beatriz Ilari, University of Southern California
- Koji Matsunobu, The Education University of Hong Kong
- Nicholas McBride, The College of New Jersey
- Mark Montemayor, University of North Texas
- Angela Munroe, West Virginia University
- Jeffrey Murdoch, University of Arkansas
- David E. Myers, University of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Parker, Temple University
- Kelly Parkes, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Sean Powell, University of North Texas
- Stephanie Prichard, University of Maryland
- Jared Rawlings, University of Utah
- Alison M. Reynolds, Temple University
- Lauren Kapalka Richerme, Indiana University
- David Rickels, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Kathryn Roulston, University of Georgia
- Ryan Shaw, Michigan State University
- Anne Marie Stanley, Penn State University
- Christina Svec, Iowa State University
- Matthew Thibeault, The Education University of Hong Kong
- Brian Weidner, Butler University
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