Dr Anne Power

• Qualifications
• Honours and Awards
• Selected Publications
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Senior Lecturer in Music Education in the School of Education and convenor of the Honours program, Anne is known for leadership in the field of professional practice. She has an extensive music teaching background and a long service to music Professional Teaching Associations and to the Board of the Professional Teachers' Council. She is regularly invited to present at major Australian and international music education and music education research conferences. Dr Power was part of a UWS team investigating Boys’ Education: Motivation and Engagement for the Department of Education, Science and Training. She was particularly involved in producing the Case Study Report.  She is chair of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education; deputy chair of the NSW Chapter of the Australian Society for Music Education; and Treasurer of the Institute for Education Research. She is editor of the journal Musicworks, the national journal of the Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk.

Qualifications

MMus (NSW), PhD (Wollongong)

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Honours and Awards

Life Membership Orff-Schulwerk Association NSW Inc (2008)

University of Western Sydney Vice Chancellor’s Award for Community Engagement (2007)

Professional Teachers Council Award for Outstanding Service to the Profession (2006)

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Selected Publications
Books

Power, A. (2002) Secondary Schools Music Australian Opera Series: The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, Sydney: Australian Music Centre.

Power, A. (2002). Secondary Schools Music Australian Opera Series: Quito, Sydney: Australian Music Centre.

Chapters

Power, A. (2000) Orff, action learning and Nepean innovations, in A. De Quadros (ed) Many Seeds Different Flowers: The music education legacy of Carl Orff, Perth: University of Western Australia and CIRCME.

Journal Articles

Power, A. (2008) What motivates and engages boys in music education? Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 175, 85-102.

Power, A. (2008) Orff-style project in one-teacher schools: An adventure in cultural understanding, Musicworks, 13, 21-26.

Power, A., Southwell, B. & Elliott, R. (2007) Teacher education for the future: Some Australian perspectives, Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 7, 27-39.

Power, A., Clarke, M. & Hall, J. (2007) Embedding the New South Wales Institute of Teachers Framework of Professional teaching Standards into a Teacher Education Program, Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 11 (2), 9-15.

Power, A. (2007) The journey of a teacher using Asian arts and literature with students in primary and middle school years, Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 4 (1), 42-53.

Power, A. (2007), The place of music in the education of Muslims: A study of connections with values education in an Australian Islamic school, Musicworks, 12, 37-41.

Power, A. (2006) On the use of the metacognitive strategy of self questioning while studying music of a culture, Australian Journal of Music Education, 1, 4-11.

Power, A. (2005) Playfulness in music: Orff and Wesley-Smith, Musicworks, 10, 11-17.

Power, A. (2004) The Levels courses in the context of research on School Music Education Provision in Australia and the formation of Professional Standards for teachers of music, Musicworks, 9, 8-14.

Power, A. (2003) Operatic Tapestry: From ‘Black River’ to ‘Going into Shadows’, Musicology Australia, 26, 104-119.

Power, A. & Dunbar-Hall, P. (2001) My views on teaching strengthened: Perceptions of the problems and benefits of international practicum by pre-service music educators, Pacific-Asian Education, 13 (2), 55-67.

Power, A. (1999) Reinventing opera: Seventeen Dolls and a Rainbow Warrior, Imaginary Homelands: Journal of Australian Studies, 61, 131-134.

Reports

Mooney, M., Yeung, A., Dobia, B., Barker, K., Power, A. & Watson, K. (2008) Positive behaviours for Learning: Investigating the transfer of a United States system into the Department of education and training Western Sydney Region Schools, report to the Department of Education and Training, Western Sydney Region, Sydney: University of Western Sydney.

Department of Education, Science and Training (2006) Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices, Canberra: DEST.

Music Council of Australia & The Australian Society for Music Education (2002) National Report on Trends on School Music Education Provision in Australia.

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