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Matthew D. Thibeault is Associate Professorof the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts.Thibeault received his BME in music education and psychology at Florida State University before completing MA and Ph.D. degrees in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education at Stanford University. He taught general music in the United States of America in California public schools at the elementary and high school level. He previously taught at San José State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Florida.
Thibeault was a 2012-13 Faculty Fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award presented by the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. He serves on the editorial or advisory boards ofAction, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, TheBulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, TheInternational Journal of Education & the Arts,Music Educators Journal, theMedia Journal of Music Education, and theJournal of Music, Technology, and Education. From 2010–14General Music Todaypublished his column for practitioners, “Secondary Scene.” Thibeault is Chair-elect for the NAfME Philosophy SRIG.
Thibeault’s interests and research concern the connections between general music education, technology, and society. He has published in a variety of journals for researchers and practitioners, including the Journal of Research in Music Education (forthcoming), Music Education Research, and Arts Education Policy Review. Thibeault served as editor of the media section of the Oxford Handbook of Music Education. While at Stanford, he worked on a multiyear National Science Foundation grant, and as co-author published several papers and the 2005 book Designing Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom (Teachers College Press). As an outgrowth of his interest in the relationship between media and music education, Thibeault lead a community group devoted to participatory music making, the Homebrew Ukulele Union.
Thibeault maintains a professional blog: https://matthewthibeault.com
Research interests
- Technology and media in music education
- Participatory music
- Curriculum
- General music
A complete list of publications, with links to online versions, is available here: https://matthewthibeault.com/publications/
Teaching Interests
- Media and technology in music education
- General music
- Curriculum
- Participatory music education
- Popular music education
External Appointments
2017 - External Examiner of PhD thesis, University of Western Australia
2014-20 Chair-elect, chair, and past-chair for the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group, National Association for Music Education (NAfME), USA
2014–17 Adjunct Assistant professor, University of Florida, Gainesville (online Masters of Music Education programme)
2007–14 Assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (music education, courtesy appointment in Curriculum and Instruction)
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Early 20th Century Mediated Pedagogy: An Historical Study of the Emergence of Music Appreciation
01/01/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research project
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Dewey's musical allergy and the philosophy of music education
THIBEAULT, M. D., Apr 2020, In: Journal of Research in Music Education. 68, 1, p. 31-52Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Learning from Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku
THIBEAULT, M. D. & MATSUNOBU, K., Nov 2020, The Oxford handbook of social media and music learning. WALDRON, J. L., HORSLEY, S. & VEBLEN, K. K. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 511-528Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapters
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Reflections on participatory music in Japan
THIBEAULT, M. D., Oct 2020, In: The Orff Echo. 2020, FALL, p. 36-41Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Celebrating the technological side of the Suzuki method
THIBEAULT, M. D., Nov 2019, In: American Suzuki Journal. 48, 1, p. 41-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Learning with sound recordings: A history of Suzuki's mediated pedagogy
THIBEAULT, M. D., Apr 2018, In: Journal of Research in Music Education. 66, 1, p. 6-30Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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