Navigating Music and Sound Education

Julie Ballantyne is the Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Music at the University of Queensland. She sits on various editorial boards, including the International Journal of Music Education and has published in areas such as music teacher education, social justice in teacher education, the psychological and social impact of music participation at music festivals, and teacher identity. She has presented at various international conferences both in Australia and overseas, and has led an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant (known as Music Teachers Oz) that used online, collaborative case-based learning in music education courses across Australia.

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Lecturer in Research and Music Literature at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. For the past two years, she has worked on the ARC funded project, ‘Sound Links: Exploring the dynamics of musical communities in Australia and their potential for informing collaboration with music in schools’. She has also worked as a sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has published widely on issues relating to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist pedagogy, and is currently editing two books on music research and music autoethnography. She is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music.