CATHY BENEDICT
Fall 2022
Lecturer - Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Teachers College Columbia University
[email protected]
2015-2022
University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor
Don Wright Faculty of Music
[email protected]
BOOK
Benedict, C. (2021). Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators. Oxford University Press.
Interview with Stephen Holley:
Holley, S. (2019). Thinking through classroom management: How can music educators best invite their students into the learning experience?(STAGES: Elementary). Teaching Music, 26(4), 55.
UNDERGRADUATE PUBLICATION / RESEARCH
Manning, K., Shifaw, S. & Benedict, C. (2021). What we've learned in a faculty of music: Dialogue with two Black musicians/scholars. Canadian Music Educator 63(1), 28-35.
Lê, C. & Shifaw, S. (2021) Four Canadian Faculties of Music: A Preliminary Investigation into Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and De-colonization in Post Secondary Education.
(USRI Western Funded Undergraduate Research Summer 2021 Research)
EDITOR OF BOOK AND JOURNAL
Benedict, C., Schmidt, P., Spruce, G., Woodford, P. (Eds). (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). Music Education in Theory: Conceptualizing Practice in the Field Today. (Co- Editor, introduction and article author) Theory Into Practice, 51, (3).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2012) (Eds). The Place of Music in the 21st Century: A Global View. (Co-editor and chapter author). National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook: Teachers College Press.
Benedict. C. (2011). (Associate Editor) Music as a Global Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues Compendium - Third Edition .
BOOK CHAPTERS
Benedict, C. (2021). Curriculum. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.). Critical Issues in Music Education. (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2021). Methods and Approaches. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.) Critical Issues in Music Education. (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2017). Thwarting the Authority of Purpose: The Project of Epistemic Responsibility. In (Eds.) Catharina Christophersen and Ailbhe Kenny, Musician Teacher Collaboration: Musical Alterations. New York NY: Routledge.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2015). What Do We Think We Know? In (Eds.) Cathy Benedict, Gary Spruce, Patrick Schmidt, Paul Woodford, The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2015). Reading Methods. In Carols Abril and Brent Gault (Eds.) Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues and Viewpoints. Oxford.
Benedict. C. (2013). Creativity in and through pedagogy: working with generalist educators’ in Higher Education In (Ed.) Pamela Burnard, Developing creativities in higher music education: International perspectives and practices. New York, NY: Routledge.
Benedict, C. (2012). Utopian Visions: Emancipatory Possibilities. In Cathy Benedict, Patrick Schmidt (eds), The Place of Music in the 21st Century: A Global View. National Society for the Study Education Yearbook: Teachers College Press.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). Refusing Narratives: The Ethics of Functional Literacy. In Sandra Stauffer, Margaret Barrett (Eds), Narrative Soundings: An anthology of narrative inquiry in music education. NY, NY: Springer Publications.
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2011). The National Curriculum as Manifested Destiny. In Chris Philpott, Gary Spruce (eds) Debates in Music Education, Debates in Subject Teaching Series. Routledge.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2009). Designing Music Curriculum. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.). Critical Issues in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2009). Methods and Approaches. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.) Critical Issues in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2006). Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities (Chapter 1). In C. Frierson Campbell (ed.), Perspectives in Urban Music Education. Lanham, Maryland: R & L Education.
REFEREED JOURNALS
Benedict, C. (Fall 2022). Resisting Neoliberal Subjectivities: Friendship Groups in Popular Music. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 30(22), pp. 131-143.
Benedict, C. (2021). Religion-blind Policies: Anti-Democratic Consequences. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 20(2): 60-78 https://doi:10.22176/act20.2.30.
Mitchell, L., Benedict. C. (2020). Lives in Dialogue: Shared Musical-Relational Engagements in Music Therapy and Music Education. European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education 1(5), pp. 61-95.
Benedict, C., O'Leary, J. (2019) Reclaiming making: Music technology in the age of neoliberalism. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 18 (1): 26–43.
Vaisberg, J., Martindale, A., Folkeard, P., Benedict, C. (Dec 2019). A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use on Music Perception in Performing Musicians. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.17019
Almqvist, C.F., Benedict, C., Kanellopoulos, P. (Fall 2017). Pedagogical encounters in music: Thinking with Hannah Arendt. European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education, 1(2).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt P. (Spring 2015). Acts of Courage: Leaping into Mindful Teaching. Canadian Music Educator, 56(3), pp. 16-20.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2013). Capitalist Rationality: Comparing the Lure of the Infinite. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 21, (1), pp. 8-22.
Benedict, C. (2012). Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education. Theory Into Practice, 51, (3), pp. 152-158.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). The social contract and music education: The emergence of political authority. ABEM Journal (Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2011). The Politics of Not Knowing: The Disappearing Act of an Education in Music. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 27, (3), pp. 134-148.
Benedict, C. (August 2011). Theory as a second story: Extending a tale. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 10 (1), pp. 78-85.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2011). "Free as in Speech, But Not Free As in Beer": The Performativity of the U.S. National Standards. Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2009). Policy, Narrativity, and the Representation of Reality. Arts Education Policy Review, 110 (4), pp. 22-26.
Benedict, C. (July 2009). Processes of Alienation: Marx, Orff and Kodaly. British Journal of Music Education, 26 (2), pp. 213-224.
Allsup, R. & Benedict, C. (Fall 2008). The Problem of Band: An Inquiry into the Future of Instrumental Music Education. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 16 (2), pp. 156-173.
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2008). Pedagogias Críticas e Práticas Músico-Educativas: Compartilhando Histórias Práticas, Políticas e Conceituais (Critical Pedagogies and Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political and Conceptual Histories). ABEM Journal (Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (December 2007). From Whence Justice?: Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 6 (4), pp. 21-42.
Benedict, C. (April 2007). Embracing Powerlessness and Empowerment: Coexisting Contradictions within Teacher Preparation. Visions of Research in Music Education 9 (10), pp. 1-16.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2007). On the Narrative of Challenged Assumptions. Research Studies in Music Education, 29 (1), pp. 29-38.
Benedict, C. (March 2006). Chasing Legitimacy: The U.S. National Music Standards Viewed Through A Critical Theorist Framework. Music Education Research, 8 (1), pp. 3-16.
Kassell, C. (March 1998). Music and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Music Educators Journal, 84 (5), pp. 29-32+60.
Kassell, C. (1998). Thinking Before We Leap: Examining the Implications of Critical Thinking, Deliberative Practice and Research Designs for Music Education. Studies in Music: From the University of Western Ontario, 17, 121-137.
Kassell, C. (April 1997). Music in the Classroom. In V. Bang-Jensen (Ed.) Thematic Units and the Arts: Exploring Possibilities: Primary Voices K-6, 5 (2), 26-31.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Benedict. C. (2019). Reflections from a Music Educator on Interdisciplinary Audiology Research. Canadian Audiologist, 6(3).
Benedict, C. (2017). Spaces of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 16(1): 79–94. doi:10.22176/act16.1.79
Benedict, C. (June 2015).The Necessity of the Reset (Letter to the Editor in Response to Mark Fonder), December 14, 2014). Music Educators Journal.
Benedict, C. (May 2014). Why do I need a ‘Why’? Florida Music Director, 27.
Benedict, C. (2008). The Social/Cultural Economy of Community Music: Realizing Spectacle. In D. Coffman (ed) Proceedings from the International Society for Music Education 2008. Tel Aviv, Israel: Levinsky College.
Benedict, C. (October 2008). The Research Gallery at the 2008 NYSSMA Winter Conference. School Music News, 72, (2), pp. 25-26.
Benedict, C. K. (2004). Communicating with the Student Teacher Whose Job is it to Listen?. Action, Criticism, and THeory for Music Education 3 (3): 2-17.
Kassell, C. (1997). The Multiple Intelligence Stepchild. In V. Brummett (Ed.) Ithaca Conference ‘96 Music as Intelligence: A Sourcebook. (pp. 116-132). Ithaca College: New York.
Fall 2022
Lecturer - Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Teachers College Columbia University
[email protected]
2015-2022
University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor
Don Wright Faculty of Music
[email protected]
BOOK
Benedict, C. (2021). Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators. Oxford University Press.
Interview with Stephen Holley:
Holley, S. (2019). Thinking through classroom management: How can music educators best invite their students into the learning experience?(STAGES: Elementary). Teaching Music, 26(4), 55.
UNDERGRADUATE PUBLICATION / RESEARCH
Manning, K., Shifaw, S. & Benedict, C. (2021). What we've learned in a faculty of music: Dialogue with two Black musicians/scholars. Canadian Music Educator 63(1), 28-35.
Lê, C. & Shifaw, S. (2021) Four Canadian Faculties of Music: A Preliminary Investigation into Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and De-colonization in Post Secondary Education.
(USRI Western Funded Undergraduate Research Summer 2021 Research)
EDITOR OF BOOK AND JOURNAL
Benedict, C., Schmidt, P., Spruce, G., Woodford, P. (Eds). (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). Music Education in Theory: Conceptualizing Practice in the Field Today. (Co- Editor, introduction and article author) Theory Into Practice, 51, (3).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2012) (Eds). The Place of Music in the 21st Century: A Global View. (Co-editor and chapter author). National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook: Teachers College Press.
Benedict. C. (2011). (Associate Editor) Music as a Global Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues Compendium - Third Edition .
BOOK CHAPTERS
Benedict, C. (2021). Curriculum. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.). Critical Issues in Music Education. (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2021). Methods and Approaches. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.) Critical Issues in Music Education. (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2017). Thwarting the Authority of Purpose: The Project of Epistemic Responsibility. In (Eds.) Catharina Christophersen and Ailbhe Kenny, Musician Teacher Collaboration: Musical Alterations. New York NY: Routledge.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2015). What Do We Think We Know? In (Eds.) Cathy Benedict, Gary Spruce, Patrick Schmidt, Paul Woodford, The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2015). Reading Methods. In Carols Abril and Brent Gault (Eds.) Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues and Viewpoints. Oxford.
Benedict. C. (2013). Creativity in and through pedagogy: working with generalist educators’ in Higher Education In (Ed.) Pamela Burnard, Developing creativities in higher music education: International perspectives and practices. New York, NY: Routledge.
Benedict, C. (2012). Utopian Visions: Emancipatory Possibilities. In Cathy Benedict, Patrick Schmidt (eds), The Place of Music in the 21st Century: A Global View. National Society for the Study Education Yearbook: Teachers College Press.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). Refusing Narratives: The Ethics of Functional Literacy. In Sandra Stauffer, Margaret Barrett (Eds), Narrative Soundings: An anthology of narrative inquiry in music education. NY, NY: Springer Publications.
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2011). The National Curriculum as Manifested Destiny. In Chris Philpott, Gary Spruce (eds) Debates in Music Education, Debates in Subject Teaching Series. Routledge.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2009). Designing Music Curriculum. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.). Critical Issues in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2009). Methods and Approaches. In H. Abeles & L. Custodero (eds.) Critical Issues in Music Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Benedict, C. (2006). Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities (Chapter 1). In C. Frierson Campbell (ed.), Perspectives in Urban Music Education. Lanham, Maryland: R & L Education.
REFEREED JOURNALS
Benedict, C. (Fall 2022). Resisting Neoliberal Subjectivities: Friendship Groups in Popular Music. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 30(22), pp. 131-143.
Benedict, C. (2021). Religion-blind Policies: Anti-Democratic Consequences. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 20(2): 60-78 https://doi:10.22176/act20.2.30.
Mitchell, L., Benedict. C. (2020). Lives in Dialogue: Shared Musical-Relational Engagements in Music Therapy and Music Education. European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education 1(5), pp. 61-95.
Benedict, C., O'Leary, J. (2019) Reclaiming making: Music technology in the age of neoliberalism. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 18 (1): 26–43.
Vaisberg, J., Martindale, A., Folkeard, P., Benedict, C. (Dec 2019). A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use on Music Perception in Performing Musicians. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.17019
Almqvist, C.F., Benedict, C., Kanellopoulos, P. (Fall 2017). Pedagogical encounters in music: Thinking with Hannah Arendt. European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education, 1(2).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt P. (Spring 2015). Acts of Courage: Leaping into Mindful Teaching. Canadian Music Educator, 56(3), pp. 16-20.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2013). Capitalist Rationality: Comparing the Lure of the Infinite. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 21, (1), pp. 8-22.
Benedict, C. (2012). Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education. Theory Into Practice, 51, (3), pp. 152-158.
Benedict, C. (Spring 2012). The social contract and music education: The emergence of political authority. ABEM Journal (Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2011). The Politics of Not Knowing: The Disappearing Act of an Education in Music. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 27, (3), pp. 134-148.
Benedict, C. (August 2011). Theory as a second story: Extending a tale. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 10 (1), pp. 78-85.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2011). "Free as in Speech, But Not Free As in Beer": The Performativity of the U.S. National Standards. Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario.
Benedict, C. (Summer 2009). Policy, Narrativity, and the Representation of Reality. Arts Education Policy Review, 110 (4), pp. 22-26.
Benedict, C. (July 2009). Processes of Alienation: Marx, Orff and Kodaly. British Journal of Music Education, 26 (2), pp. 213-224.
Allsup, R. & Benedict, C. (Fall 2008). The Problem of Band: An Inquiry into the Future of Instrumental Music Education. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 16 (2), pp. 156-173.
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (2008). Pedagogias Críticas e Práticas Músico-Educativas: Compartilhando Histórias Práticas, Políticas e Conceituais (Critical Pedagogies and Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political and Conceptual Histories). ABEM Journal (Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais).
Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (December 2007). From Whence Justice?: Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 6 (4), pp. 21-42.
Benedict, C. (April 2007). Embracing Powerlessness and Empowerment: Coexisting Contradictions within Teacher Preparation. Visions of Research in Music Education 9 (10), pp. 1-16.
Benedict, C. (Fall 2007). On the Narrative of Challenged Assumptions. Research Studies in Music Education, 29 (1), pp. 29-38.
Benedict, C. (March 2006). Chasing Legitimacy: The U.S. National Music Standards Viewed Through A Critical Theorist Framework. Music Education Research, 8 (1), pp. 3-16.
Kassell, C. (March 1998). Music and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Music Educators Journal, 84 (5), pp. 29-32+60.
Kassell, C. (1998). Thinking Before We Leap: Examining the Implications of Critical Thinking, Deliberative Practice and Research Designs for Music Education. Studies in Music: From the University of Western Ontario, 17, 121-137.
Kassell, C. (April 1997). Music in the Classroom. In V. Bang-Jensen (Ed.) Thematic Units and the Arts: Exploring Possibilities: Primary Voices K-6, 5 (2), 26-31.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Benedict. C. (2019). Reflections from a Music Educator on Interdisciplinary Audiology Research. Canadian Audiologist, 6(3).
Benedict, C. (2017). Spaces of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 16(1): 79–94. doi:10.22176/act16.1.79
Benedict, C. (June 2015).The Necessity of the Reset (Letter to the Editor in Response to Mark Fonder), December 14, 2014). Music Educators Journal.
Benedict, C. (May 2014). Why do I need a ‘Why’? Florida Music Director, 27.
Benedict, C. (2008). The Social/Cultural Economy of Community Music: Realizing Spectacle. In D. Coffman (ed) Proceedings from the International Society for Music Education 2008. Tel Aviv, Israel: Levinsky College.
Benedict, C. (October 2008). The Research Gallery at the 2008 NYSSMA Winter Conference. School Music News, 72, (2), pp. 25-26.
Benedict, C. K. (2004). Communicating with the Student Teacher Whose Job is it to Listen?. Action, Criticism, and THeory for Music Education 3 (3): 2-17.
Kassell, C. (1997). The Multiple Intelligence Stepchild. In V. Brummett (Ed.) Ithaca Conference ‘96 Music as Intelligence: A Sourcebook. (pp. 116-132). Ithaca College: New York.
