Education - Degrees, Principal Areas, Influences, Teachers

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DEGREES

EdD in Music Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991

MS in Music Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986

BME in Music, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1980

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DISSERTATION

The development of musical style sensitivity in elementary school-age children
  • Proposal Committee: Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman, Richard Colwell, G. David Peters, Charles Leonhard, Klaus Witz 
  • Defense Committee:  Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman, Eunice Boardman, Terry Ackerman
  • Nominee for the 1991 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year
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MUSICAL STUDY
Piano 
  • Mary Jane Grizzell, Helen Longbons, Robert Mueller
Bassoon
  • Charles Fligel, David Riddles 
Conducting
  • Robert Berg, Mark Hindsley, Doreen Rao
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MUSIC PEDAGOGY STUDY
Generative Approach
  • Eunice Boardman
Kodaly Method 
  • Lois Choksy, Eve Harwood, Alex Ringer
Orff Approach
  • Jane Frazee
Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics
  • Robert Abramson
Gordon Method
  • Edwin E. Gordon
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PRINCIPLES and PHILOSOPHIES OF TEACHING and LEARNING
  • Eunice Boardman
  • Mary Hoffman
  • Lilian Katz
  • Charles Leonhard
  • Mary Palmer
  • G. David Peters
  • Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman
PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGIES IN RESEARCH and EVALUATION
  • Terry Ackerman
  • Liora Bresler
  • Richard Colwell
  • James Raths
  • Daniel Walsh
  • Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman
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