Music plays important roles in shaping identity and community, in promoting personal growth, health and wellness, and in raising our consciousness with respect to social and other problems throughout the lifespan.
Welcome

Welcome to the website for the Leading Music Education International Conference hosted by the Don Wright Faculty of Music, The University of Western Ontario in London from May 29 - June 1, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
- CHRISTOPHER SMALL
- HILDEGARD FROEHLICH
- RANDALL ALLSUP

Click here to see more information about our keynote speakers.

The conference seeks to promote awareness of music's centrality in contemporary society and culture and the important role music leaders play therein. It aims to foster international dialogue and disseminate research on issues of music, culture, community, leadership and education. Although music is often considered an educational frivolity by politicians, there is an abundance of research and scholarship demonstrating not just its ubiquity but its power in our lives. Music plays important roles in shaping identity and community, in promoting personal growth, health and wellness, and in raising our consciousness with respect to social and other problems throughout the lifespan. It can however also be used as entertainment to serve economic purposes or as propaganda to manipulate.

Proposals are invited from music education researchers, music educators, community musicians and graduate students to present papers, research posters or workshops as part of the conference. The deadline for submissions is 30 October 2010.

For more information on requirements for submission of proposals see the Call for Papers.

Please mark your calendars now for this conference. This is an opportunity to come together with colleagues from around the world to discuss those issues affecting us all. The full conference agenda and registration information will be on-line in the coming months. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Ruth Wright, Chair of Music Education at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, The University of Western Ontario.





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