School of Education

Dr Jason Goopy

Jason is Lecturer and Coordinator of Secondary and Instrumental Music Education at the School of Education.

Current teaching

• MUE2125 – Teaching Music in Secondary School
• MUE3120 – Contemporary Music Teaching Practices
• MUE6711 – Music Education Foundations
• MUE6712 – Secondary Music Education
• MUE3105 – Teaching Instrumental Music
• MUE4105 – Directing School Music Ensembles
• MUE6205 – Instrumental Music Education Foundations
• MUE6305 – Secondary Instrumental Music Education

Background

Dr Jason Goopy is a recognised teacher, scholar, and leader in music education. He is currently Lecturer and Coordinator of Secondary Music & Instrumental Music Education at Edith Cowan University. Jason draws upon 15 years of leading arts programs and teaching music in Queensland combined primary and secondary schools and is a specialist in Kodály-inspired music education.

Jason’s research aims to uncover how music education can positively transform lives by examining the nexus between music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-methods. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award and his forthcoming monograph, Teenage boys, musical identities and music education: An Australian narrative inquiry, will go to print with Routledge later this year. He is the recipient of an ECU Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant and is currently investigating the role of trauma-informed community music education in supporting the wellbeing of children and young people.

Jason serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education and the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing. He is the current national President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, and an Advisory Group Member for the Alberts Tony Foundation national project, Music Education: Right from the Start.

Professional associations

• 2022 – National Advocates of Arts Education, NAAE (ASME Representative)
• 2020 – Australian Music and Psychology Society, AMPS (Member)
• 2020 – American Choral Directors Association, ACDA (Member)
• 2015 – Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research, SEMPRE (Member)
• 2013 – International Society for Music Education, ISME (Member)
• 2012 – Australian Society for Music Education, ASME (President)
• 2010 – Australian National Choral Association, ANCA (Member)
• 2008 – International Kodály Society, IKS (Member)
• 2007 – Kodály Australia (The Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia, KMEIA) (Education Committee Convenor and Immediate Past President)

Awards and recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

• 2021 – Fellowship (FHEA), Advance HE & The University of Queensland

National and International Research Awards

• 2023 – ECU Aspire Award, Business Events Perth
• 2022 – Equity and Inclusion Within Education Research Award, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
• 2021 – Callaway Doctoral Award, Australian Society for Music Education

Research interests

• Music education
• Music psychology
• Identity
• Wellbeing
• Singing
• Teacher education
• Gender and sexuality
• Arts-based, narrative, and mixed research methods

Qualifications

• Graduate Certificate in University Teaching, The University of Melbourne, 2021.
• Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2020.
• Master of Music in the field of Aural Pedagogy, The University of Queensland, 2009.
• Bachelor of Music With Honours Class 1, The University of Queensland, 2007.
• Bachelor of Education (Secondary), The University of Queensland, 2007.
• Diploma Associate in Music, Aust in the subject of Saxophone, Other QLD registered training organisation, 2005.

Research Outputs

Research Projects

• Music teacher growth and development from Australian Kodaly Certificate courses, Academic Staff Association of Edith Cowan University, Solidarity Research Fund (SRF), 2024 ‑ 2026, $20,000.
• The role of trauma-informed community music education in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2022 (Stream 1), 2023 ‑ 2024, $39,963.

Research Student Supervision