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The more I work w/ teachers I recognize they want to think critically about what they do; they long for a space to think through w/ others. Workshops that only present “activities to take back that ‘work’” deny/suppress inherent transformative capacities.  Tweet: February 7, 2018
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CATHY BENEDICT
Fall 2022
Lecturer - Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Teachers College Columbia University

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2015-2022
University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor
Don Wright Faculty of Music
[email protected]

CONSULTING
Leader of Capilano University Music Faculty Program Review (May 2022)


INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
• Racial Bias and Equity in Music, April 8, 2022 - Sponsored by the Frost School of Music (University of Miami)
• The Universidad Autónoma de Chihuanhua, November 16, 2016. Some Things Simply Shouldn’t Be Sustained: The [Not So] Hidden Language of Power and Exclusion.

• The Music Education Students’ Association (MESA), Enlighten 2016, January 2016. Works at what? – The Purpose of Music Education
 • Conference on Music Learning and Teaching, March 2011. Sponsored by Center for Applied Research in Music Education (CARMU), Oakland University in Rochester, MI. I am not a True Believer: A Crisis in Faith.
• Nordic Master Course, Orebro School of Music, November 7-11 2011, Orebro, Sweden.

INVITED WORKSHOPS
• Singposium
: Alberta Kodály Association February 29, 2020. Critical Listening Through Ethical Dilemmas: Peter and the Wolf

• Nova Scotia Music Educators Association October 2019 - 2 sessions:

Imagine and Peter and the Wolf: The goal of both sessions is to provide a vision of socially engaged practices through a framework that supports pedagogical dispositions that help to uncover, bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that stand in the way of embracing difference.

• Education Through Music, New York City. August 2019. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Kodály Pedagogy. Working with New York City music teachers.

• Kodály Society of Canada - Teacher workshop. Manitoba, March 1, 2019. Building Blocks for Successful Part-Singing


• Nova Scotia Kodály Society.  Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions. February 2018. Professional Development Day

• Singing the Circle | World Singing Day Workshop for the October 2017 21/22
Cape Breton, NS. (Co-applicant SSHRC Connections Grant)
- Worked in local schools with music teachers 21 October
- Professional Development with Cape Breton Music Teachers
- Worked with Cape Breton Chorale World Singing Day Weekend 

• Kodaly Back to School Workshop. (Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions. August, 20717 London ON).

• Royal Conservatory of Music. Why Do We What We Do?: In Pursuit of Purpose. September 16, 2016. Toronto.

KENNEDY CENTER
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Creative Learning, Creative Teaching: Learning from YoungArts Master Artists (February 28, 2014)
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Creative Learning, Creative Teaching: Learning from YoungArts Master Artists (October, 20, 2013)
-YoungArts MasterClass Resources for Teachers

UNITED NATIONS
•  Age of Connectivity:  Music as a Natural Resource -
Music as a Global Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues Compendium - Third Edition
•  Age of Connectivity:  Music as a Natural Resource ... Urban Futures.  High Level Forum:  UN Headquarters, New York.  23 June 2011.
•  Age of Connectivity:  Better City - Better Life ... Imagining the Possible.  High Level Working Session:  UN Headquarters, New York.  14 February 2010.

BOOK LAUNCH at Teachers College (fall 2016)- Randall Allsup,
Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. Photos and Video

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES

• Benedict, C. (October 2024). Reading to Each Other in Our Home Language: A Right to Curricular Space Through the Aesthetic Encounter.
Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice.

• Benedict, C., Stauffer, S. (July 28- Aug 2, 2024). Sustaining Women’s Decisions to Depart: The Unexamined Transition out of Higher Music Education. 36th World Conference for the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Photos

• Benedict, C. (July 22-26 2024). The unsustainability of not knowing: How we construct “child” matters. ISME - MISTEC (Music in Schools and Teacher Education Commission), Tallinn Estonia. Photos

• Benedict, C. (June 2023). What use history?: Dismantling elementary public school curricular structures. The 13th Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium (ISPME). Oslo, Norway


• Benedict, C. (April 2023). Walking Away from Music Teacher Preparation: The Experiences of Three Students of Colour. The 13th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME 2023)

• Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (November 2022). Decolonizing the Ear: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Model Cornerstone Assessments and the National Standards. Philosophy SRIG session of the NAfME Conference in National Harbor, MD

• Benedict, C.& Schmidt, P.  (July 2022). Decolonizing Musicianship: Invisibility, Silos and Resistance to Change in Higher Teacher Education. ISME - MISTEC Commission.

• Benedict, C. (April 2022). We decided to stop saying “Good Job”: The Impact of Language Shifts in the Classroom. AERA, San Diego/paper presentation.

• Benedict, C. & Showen, A. (June 2021). Living with our monsters: Reading literacy [Kodály] through posthumanism. Mayday Colloquium 32

• Benedict, C. (May 23-26, 2021). Socially just engagements in the elementary classroom: Learning to dialogue with the Other. The 16th Mountain Lake Colloquium - Engaged Work Toward Justice: People, Practices, and Priorities. 

• Benedict, C. (2021 6 – 9 April 2021). Sustaining Critical Engagements: The Impact of Language Shifts in the Music Classroom. RiME 2021 - Twelfth International Research in Music Education Conference.

• Benedict, C. (2021 6 – 9 April 2021). Symposium: Music Teacher Preparation in Times of Crisis - Epistemology of inclusion: Teaching our students to meet the other. RiME 2021 - Twelfth International Research in Music Education Conference.

• Benedict, C. & Bernard, C. (2021 24 - 27 March 2021). First year music education students learning to listen and respond to the other: A transnational pilot project. 28th EAS Conference 2021 / 9th ISME European Regional Conference (Virtual).

• Benedict, C. (2021 February 18-20) Educating for Intelligent Belief and Unbelief. Desert Skies Symposium

• Abril, C. R. & Benedict, C. L. (2020, Apr 17 - 21)
School Music Administrators' Roles and Perspectives on Navigating Policy [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/ruvfltt (Conference Cancelled)


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Benedict, C. & Allsup, R. (Feb 2020) Celebrating the Contributions of Estelle Jorgensen: The Thirteenth Annual Jean Sinor Memorial Symposium Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, “The Road Goes Ever On”

• Benedict, C. (June 2019). Twelfth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium. Popular   Criticisms of Democracy and Music Education: A Philosophical Exploration: Religion-blind Policies: Anti-Democratic Consequences. Moderated by Michael Apple
Pre-conference work with students - Photos

• Benedict, C. (June 2019). Twelfth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium. Music Education in Times of Darkness: The possibility of Resistance: Resisting Friendship.
Photos from Pre-conference and Conference (ISPME Summer 2019)

• Introduction to Michael Apple Keynote (ISPME Summer 2019)


• ISME (International Society for Music Education) On the Limitations and Potentials of Intercultural Events. Baku, Azerbaijan, July 2018 Photos

• MayDay Group Colloquium XXX, Western University. London ON, June 6-9, 2018, Reclaiming Making: Music Technology in the Curriculum. Jared O'Leary, co-presentor. Photo

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3rd Annual FIMS/MUSIC/LAW (FIMULAW) Interdisciplinary Research Day. March 22, 2019 Reflections from a Music Educator on Interdisciplinary Audiology Research  

• NAfME (National Association of Music Educators). March 2018 Connected Insularity: On the Limitations and Potentials of Intercultural Events. Cathy Benedict, Kelly Bylica, Kristine Musgrove, Gabriela Ocadiz, Patrick Schmidt. Photos

• TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association). Honouring Awe and Wonder: Facilitating the Space of Song. San Antonio, Texas. February 2018.

• OMEA (Ontario Music Educators Association). Works at what? Huntsville, ON Nov 2017. OMEA 2017 Photos

• Beyond Bourdieu? Institute for Advanced Studies (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg), Delmenhorst. International Symposium, 22nd – 24th September 2017. Photos


• 23rd International Kodály Society Symposium Singing the Circle/Cycle du chant. Honouring Awe and Wonder: Facilitating the Space of Song. Camrose, Alberta 8-12 August 2017.

• The 10th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. True Threat, True Promise: Recklessness as the New ‘Praxis. The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. London, UK. 11th – 14th June 2017.

• Eleventh Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2017. The Banality of Assessment: It All Comes Too Easily. Volos, Greece. 7–10 June 2017.

• MusCan - Canadian University Music Society: Canada 150: Music and Belonging. Much needed dialogue: Having faculty conversations about how and why we teach.
University of Toronto May 25-27, 2017


• Organizing Equality. London, ON. Panel presentation. Music: Transformative or Reproductive? Cathy Benedict, Alison Butler, Gabriela Ocadiz. March 24, 2017.

• Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference. Practicing to hear each other better: Pedagogy of Presence / Practicing to listen to each other better: Pedagogy of Presence. May 11, 2017.

• New Directions for Performance and Music Teacher Education A Symposium on University Music Education in China November 2-5, 2016, The Arts College of Xiamen University Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. Works at what? – The purpose of music education.

• 32nd ISME World Conference, Policy Commission 2016 Birmingham, UK. Presentation with UWO Doctoral Student Alison Butler: The Rhetoric of Inequality: Leaving No Child Behind because Everyone Child Matters.

• 32nd ISME World Conference, 2016 Glasgow, Scotland. Panel Presentation: Understanding Social Justice in Music Education: International Voices.

• The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). The [Not So] Hidden Language of Power and Exclusion. London, Ontario. June 21-24, 2016.

* NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference. March 2016 Atlanta. “The Lost Pedagogical Core of “Student Centered” Teaching” (Benedict & Hibbard)

• Ann Arbor Symposia IV: Popular Music. True Threat, True Promise: Recklessness as the New ‘Praxis’ November 2015. Am Arbor, MI.
Related links - New York Times Retro Report- Sex, Drugs and Gore

• The October 2015 Singing Network’s Symposium on Singing and Song. Pedagogy of Presence: Finding the Space of Appearance in Song. Newfoundland.

• Tenth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2015. Philosophy and Pedagogy: Arendt in Praxis. June 03-06, 2015, Frankfurt am Main.

• Tenth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2015. Respondent to: Iris Yob - Sacred Time. June 03-06, 2015, Frankfurt am Main.

• Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA). Tampa, FL. Integrating Music into Middle School Based Projects. January 2015.

• 2014 National Association for Music Educators (NAfME - click for photos) Music Research and Teacher Education Conference, St. Louis. Philosophy SRIG: “Sanctioned Repositories of a Hope:  The Alignment of Standards”

• College Music Society National Conference (CMS) Boston, 2014. The Paradox of Preparation (Panel) and It's not about Teaching Music (Lightning Talk).

• NAfME In-Service Conference, Nashville, 2013. Doing Away With Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions.


•  Ninth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2013. Respondent to:  Werner Jank - Theory of 'Bildung' - Philosophy of Education: On their Significance for Current Questions in the Philosophy of Music Education.  Teachers College, Columbia University 

• Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium IX, University of South Florida. General Educators Teaching Music:  It's Not About Music, It's About Pedagogical Possibilities.  February 6-9, 2013

• Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA). Tampa, FL. Uniting Music Education:  Models for Collaboration with General Educators! January 9-12, 2013

•  Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA. Tampa, FL. Improving Music Teacher Leadership: What Every Educator must Know About Policy in Times of High Accountability. January 9-12, 2013.

•  The Second Symposium on LGBT Studies and Music Education. Pedagogy of Pride.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (click for photos), October 18-19, 2012.

•  30th ISME World Conference, 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece.  Who’s Afraid of Policy? Learning to Lead by Learning to Influence.  

•  30th ISME World Conference, 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece. Rules inside the Parameters of Schooling:  Four National Perspectives

• Music Educators National Conference (NAfME), 2nd MENC Biennial National Music Educators National Conference, St. Louis, MO March 28-31, 2011:  Chair - Philosophy Special Interest Research Group (SRIG - click for video)

•  College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Richmond, VA 2011.  Cultural Responses and Sustaining Growth: Graduate Students and Early-mid Career Teachers Interrogating “Rules”

•   Nordic Network for Music Education (Nordplus) Course.  Orebro Sweden, November 7-11, 2011.  Classroom Behaviour in American and Nordic Primary Schools. 

•   College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Richmond, VA 2011.  Cultural Responses and Sustaining Growth: Graduate Students and Early-mid Career Teachers Interrogating “Rules” 

•  The 7th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME).  April 12-16, 2011, School of Education, University of Exeter. The Concept of Bildung and Educational Change in the 21st Century: "Oh How I Wish You Had Been Karl Marx"


•  College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Minneapolis, MN, 2010.  Moving Between Silos:  The Courage of Conversations Between Music Education and Music Theory.

•  29th ISME World Conference, 2010 China.  Music Teaching and Learning at the Pedagogy and Policy Nexus: Who Makes Policy?

•  29th ISME World Conference, 2010 China.  Early Career Teachers and the Creative Commons: A Model for Professional Growth and Autonomy.

•  2010 Biennial Music Educators National Conference (MENC), March 2010, Policy Presentation for Symposium for Music Teacher Education:  Social Justice and Policy Thinking.

•  Eighth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2010, Sibelius Academy.  The Social Contract and Music Education:  If I do what?! I'll get what!?! 

•  54th National Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology.  Mexico City, October 2009.  El Sistema:  Can Music have a Place in Social Reform? 

•  Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September 2009. The Role of Inquiry-Based Practice in Preservice Music Teacher Education.

•  Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September 2009.  O Brave New World, That Has Such People In't:  Courageous Conversations Between Music Theory and Music Education. 

•  The 6th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME).  April 15-18, 2009, School of Education, University of Exeter. The Myth of institutionalized Music Education and The Performativity of the U.S. National Standards.

•  28th ISME World Conference 20–25 July 2008, Bologna, Italy.  Policy, Narrativity, and the Representation of Reality.

•  11th Community Music Activity International Seminar (ISME), 15-18 July 2008, Rome, Italy. The Social/Cultural Economy Of Community Music: Realizing Spectacle.

• MayDay Group Colloquium XX, Boston University. Boston, Massachusetts, June 5-8, 2008, We Hold Bake Sales, For God's Sake:  The Case For Dropping Out of Music and Staying Out.

•  Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais (Brazil Music Educators National Conference), Santa Maria, Campo Grande May 20, 2008. Critical Pedagogies and Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political and Conceptual Histories.

•  American Education Research Association (AERA), NYC, March 2008.  Observation as a Pedagogy of Disruption:  Interrupting the Normative Spaces of Schooling as Responsibility. 

•  Narrative Soundings, 2nd International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, February 7-9, 2008 School of Music, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. Refusing Narratives:  The Ethics of Functional Literacy.

•  musica ficta/Lived Realties:  A Conference on Engagements and Exclusions in Music, Education, and the Arts.  January 24-27, 2008.  Benedict, C. Schmidt, P. The Keynote and The Perpetration of Capital: Modeling Inequity in Educational Practices.

•  Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September, 2007. It's Not Just About Survival:  Critical Practices in Urban Schools.  Presented with three music teacher graduates of New York University.

•  Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium (PMER), University of Western Ontario, Canada, June 6-9, 2007.  Invited Respondent.

•  International Sociological Association Conference (Research Committee on Sociology of Education).  Nicosia, Cyprus. May 24-27 2007.  Observation as Pedagogy of Disruption:  Interrupting the Normative Spaces of Schooling

•  The 5th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME), April 10-14, 2007, School of Education, University of Exeter.  Processes of Alienation:  Orff and Kodaly.

•  American Education Research Association (AERA), Chicago, April 2007.  Self-actualizing Learning: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Using Self-assessment.

•  11th Annual Urban Music Leadership Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-21, 2006, Defining Ourselves as Other:  Envisioning Transformative Possibilities

• First International Symposium on Music Education, Equity, and Social Justice, Teachers College, Columbia University, October, 2006. Schmidt, P. & Benedict, C. From Whence Justice:  Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education.

•  Mayday Colloquium XVII, Westminster Choir College, NJ, June 2006. Embracing Powerlessness and Despair:  Teaching.

•  Narrative Soundings, 1st International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, April 5-7, 2006 School of Music, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University.  On The Narrative Of Challenged Assumptions. 

• College Band Directors' National Association's Biennial National Conference (CBDNA), NY, Allsup, R. & Benedict, C. (February 2005).  The Problem of Band: An Inquiry into the Future of Instrumental Music Education.

•  Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education (PMER), University of Hamburg, Germany, May 18-21, 2005. Naming Our Reality:  Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin.

•  The 4th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME), Exeter, England  April 5-9, 2005.  Chasing Legitimacy:  The National Music Standards Viewed Through a Critical Theorist Framework.

•  College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Miami, FL, October 2003, Chasing Legitimacy:  The National Music Standards.


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