Join us in welcoming two new co-editors of Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Doctors Patrick Schmidt and Joseph Abramo! Their first issue, No. 243, is available online now.
Meet Dr. Patrick Schmidt, Incoming Co-Editor
Dr. Patrick Schmidt is a Professor of Music and Music Education at the Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, he served as faculty and chair of Music Education and Dance at Western University, Canada, as well as Associate Director of Florida International University’s School of Music in Miami, Florida and at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Schmidt also currently serves as a docent at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. His research specialties include critical pedagogy, urban music education and policy studies. He has also led several consulting and evaluative projects including recent work for the National YoungArts Foundation and the New World Symphony, as well as for the Ministry of Culture and Education in Chile. Dr. Schmidt co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Music EducationandSocial Justice (2015), Policy and the Political Life of Music Education (2017), Leadership in Higher Music Education (2020), and The Routledge Handbook for the Sociology of Music Education (2021). He also authored Policy as Practice: A guide for Music Educators (2020).
Meet Dr. Joseph Abramo, Incoming Co-Editor
Dr. Joseph Abramo is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He currently serves on the National Association for Music Education’s (NAfME) Equity Board. He is also co-chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s (CMEA) Equity and Advocacy Committee. He is also a Past Chair of the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group of the National Association for Music Education and served as an early reviewer for the new national standards in music. Dr. Abramo served on the State Education Department’s Arts Leadership Team, charged with adoption of new arts standards for the state of Connecticut. He also served as a co-chair of Gender Research in Music Education (GRIME) and a co-editor of its online, peer-reviewed journal Gender, Education, Music, Society. His areas of research include equity in music education, music teacher preparation, and popular music. has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. He is the co-author of the book Music Teacher Evaluation: A Guide for Teachers in the U.S. (2019).
Dr. Abramo is an author or co-author of many articles that have been published in Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education: “Establishing Identity: LGBT Studies & Music Education – Select Conference Proceedings” (No. 188), “An Ethnographic Case Study of Music Learning at a School for the Blind” (No. 195), “Learning to Teach Music in the Context of High-Needs Schools in a Post-Student Teaching Internship” (No. 206) “A Cross-Cultural Interview Study of Singaporean and US General Music Teachers’ ‘Pedagogical Creativity’” (No. 214), “What Preservice Music Teachers Say About Educative Mentoring Before Student Teaching: A Focus Study Research Project” (No. 219), and “Barriers to Access and University Schools of Music: A Collective Case Study of Urban High School Students of Color and Their Teachers” (No. 226).
Outgoing Editor, Dr. Janet Revel Barrett
Outgoing editor Dr. Janet Revell Barrett has served as the editor of Bulletin since Fall 2013 and has worked on forty-one issues. Sheis the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair Emerita in Music Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Barrett has published widely in music education and is an author or editor of six books. She has also served on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Prior to her work in higher education, Barrett taught general and choral music in Iowa and Wisconsin. “The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education has a long and distinguished history in the field of music education,” she says. “Founded at the University of Illinois in 1963, the journal has published research on music teaching and learning as one of several key venues for disseminating rigorous scholarship. I mark the appointment of Professors Schmidt and Abramo as a new era for the journal as they bring their distinguished records of scholarly achievement and new vision to this important publication.”
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