Staff Profile:Dr Mary Stakelum
- Name:
- Dr Mary Stakelum
- Job Title:
- Lecturer in Music Education/Associate Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
- Responsibilities:
University responsibilities
- Associate Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (Research Methods) at the University Graduate School
- Member of Faculty Committee for Postgraduate Research Studies
Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:
- Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
- MA in Education (pathway leader in music)
Teaching:
- I teach across a wide variery of programmes at the Institute, including MA (Music and the primary school), PGCE (Primary music), GTP (Primary music) and PhD levels.
- At the University Graduate School, I teach on the Reading Researcher Development Programme.
- Areas of Interest:
Expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:
- Musical development in theory and practice
- The growth of teacher knowledge in music education
- Comparative approaches to teaching and learning music
- Responses to music listening
Current and recent research students:
- Tom Parkinson: Sites of value formation in popular music pedagogy at undergraduate level (with Suzanne Graham)
- Naomi Kayayan: Musical identities of instrumental teachers working in private practice in the UK(with David Baker)
- Shahla Yassaei: Teacher professional development and reflective practice (with Suzanne Graham)
- Liz McCabe: A study of guided reading: influences on teacher understanding in 2003 and 2010 and effects on practice (with Margaret Perkins)
Current and recent research projects:
- Mapping musical ability in primary school (with Dr David Baker)
- An exploratory study of the impact of music technology on teaching and learning at KS3
- Conceptions of musical ability at primary school (with Dr David Baker)
- The impact of music technology on teaching and learning music
- Music education in the long nineteenth century: the contribution of James Culwick to the music teaching profession
- European perspectives on assessment practices in primary school
- An analysis of adult non-specialist verbal responses to music listening
- Research groups / Centres:
Arts
- Publications:
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Recent publications/conference presentations/professional achievements:
Stakelum, M. (2013) (Ed) Developing the musician. SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music series. Ashgate ISBN 978-1-4094-5017-7 Hardback
Stakelum, M. (under review) 'Destabilisation and democratisation in the music classroom: music technology and the emergence of new scenarios of learning'. British Journal of Music Education
Stakelum. M. (under review) 'Boundaries and bridges: the influence of James Cooksey Culwick on the development of the teaching and learning of music in nineteenth century Ireland' . International Journal of Music Education
Stakelum, M. (2011) .An analysis of verbal responses to music in a group of adult non-specialists. Music Education Research 13(2), 173-197
Stakelum, M. (2011). 'A commentary on assessment practices in music education at primary level in England: are there lessons to learn from the past?' in Music and Music Education within the Context of Socio-cultural Changes. TUBITAK: Turkish Scientific and Technological Searching Association. p.443- 450
Stakelum, M. (forthcoming). 'James Culwick', 'Victor Herbert', 'Kodály Method', 'Suzuki Method', 'Association of Irish Choirs', 'Culwick Choral Society' and 'St James Gate Choir'. Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. B. Boydell and H. White (Eds.)
Stakelum, M. (2008). Primary music education: the misrepresentation of the ideals of curricula in research. Journal of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland 27, no.3: 281 - 293.
Stakelum, M. (2008). Creating a musical world in the classroom: application of a Bourdieuan approach towards understanding teacher practice. British Journal of Music Education, 25, no 1: 91 - 102.
Stakelum, M. (2008). A piece for music educators and thinking musicians. Teaching the unteachable: the role of composition in higher education, ed. P.Flynn. Waterford Orpheus Press
Stakelum, M. (2006). A song to sweeten Ireland's wrong: music education and Celtic Revival. The Irish Revival Reappraised. eds. E.A.Taylor Fitzsimon & J.H.Murphy. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Conference presentations
A language for practice: the impact of music technology on teaching and learning music. International Society for Music Education. 29th World Conference Beijing, August 2010
Assessment practices at primary school: lessons from the past. European Association for Music in Schools, University of Abant Izzet Baysal, Bolu, April 2010
James Culwick and the development of an aesthetic. Society for Music in Ireland//Royal Musicological Association. Joint annual conference, Dublin July 2009
The impact of music technology on the teaching and learning of music in the classroom - an exploratory study:13th International Creativity Conference, Scientific Institute for Creativity, Riga, November 2008
The relationship between the discursive and the non-discursive in response to recorded music: 5th International Research in Music Education (RIME) Conference, University of Exeter, April 2007
Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:
- I have introduced a choral conducting course to the music calendar and it is held for three days at Easter.
- I organised Society of Education, Music and Psychology Research conference 'Developing the musician' Reading, March 4th - 5th 2011
- I lead on the European Assocation for Music in Schools Doctoral Student Forum. The first forum was held in Gdansk in May 2011. The second takes place in The Hague in April 2012.
- I am a reviewer for Psychology of Music and Journal of Society for Musicology in Ireland.
- I am a member of the Editorial board Music Education Research
- I am a board member of the European Assocation for Music in Schools
Invited guest presentations include:
Guest panel member at symposium on 'Artistry in Content and Method of Music Teaching in Dutch Secondary Schools', Royal Conservatoire of Music, The Hague April 2012
Invited guest speaker at a symposium on 'Documents of Irish Music History in the Long Nineteenth Century: National and International Contexts', University of Limerick, April 2012
International Music Workshop, Kirchliche Padagogische Hochschule, Wien/Krems, 2009, 2010
Guest presenter of Listening to music and Composition: two illustrative workshops, PH Freiburg, June 2008
Keynote presentation Creativity and the young musician: Annual conference of Post Primary Music Teachers Association of Ireland, Cork, October 2007