Student Choral Conductors as Reflective Musicians: Examining the Pedagogy

BETTY ANNE YOUNKER is an Assistant Professor at The University of Michigan. Previous university posts include the University of Western Ontario, the University of Prince Edward Island, and Simon Fraser University. Public school teaching experiences occurred over nine years in Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Betty Anne’s writings have been published in Research in Music Education, the Canadian Music Educator, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Looking Forward: Challenges to Canadian Music Education, and Sharing the Voices: The Phenomenon of Singing 2. Her writing projects over this past year have included a chapter entitled “Critical Thinking” for the Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning and a chapter entitled “The Nature of Feedback in a Community of Composing” for a book that emerged from the Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar (June 2000). Her paper presentations for this year have occurred at the MENC North Central Division in Peoria, Illinois, Research in Music Education Conference in Exeter England, American Educational Research Association Conference in Seattle, Washington, and the Mountain Lake Symposium in Mountain Lake, Virginia. Betty Anne continues to make music with the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers in Ann Arbor, Michigan.