Associate Professor Anne Power
Anne Power is Academic Course Adviser for the Master of Teaching Secondary Program and a member of the Centre for Educational Research. Her research interests include:
- secondary music education
- policy in music education internationally
- effective teaching, especially in low SES contexts
- professional learning
- global education
Associate Professor Power is experienced with case study research. She has contributed case study expertise to research in relation to boys' education (DEEWR and DEC) and the engagement of students from low SES backgrounds (Teachers for a Fair Go). She is the editor of Musicworks,
Journal of the Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk, associate editor of Issues in Educational Research, and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education and the Australian Journal of Music Education. She is Vice President of the Australian Music Education Society (NSW Chapter, formerly President), of the NSW Orff Schulwerk Association, and of the Institute for Education Research (NSW). She is also a Director of the Professional Teachers Council.
Associate Professor Power's current funded research projects are:
Enabling schooling success: Psycho-social drivers and impact of Positive Behaviour for Learning intervention on behaviour, well-being, academic engagement and achievement (funded by Australian Research Council).
Enhancing Indigenous Content in Performing Arts Curricula in Tertiary institutions through Service Learning in Indigenous Communities (funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching; in partnership with Griffith, Curtin and University of Sydney).
Qualifications
B Mus Ed (Sydney) MMus (NSW), PhD (Wollongong)
Honours and Awards
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Programs that Enhance Learning
University of Western Sydney Vice Chancellor's Award for Community Engagement
NSW Professional Teachers Council Award (twice) for Outstanding Service to Professional Associations
Life Membership Orff-Schulwerk Association NSW Inc.
Publications: Selected Chapters
Power, A., Vozzo, L. & Pares, L. (2013) Teacher backgrounds. In G. Munns, W.Sawyer & B. Cole (eds.) pp. 107-122. Teaching for a Fair Go: Exemplary teachers of students in poverty. London: Routledge.
Pares, L., Vozzo, L. & Power, A. (2013). Professional qualities of the teachers. In G. Munns, W.Sawyer & B. Cole (eds.) pp. 123-134. Teaching for a Fair Go: Exemplary teachers of students in poverty. London: Routledge.
Cole, B., Mooney, M. & Power, A. (2013). Imagination, creativity and intellectual quality. In G. Munns, W.Sawyer & B. Cole (eds.) pp. 183-204. Teaching for a Fair Go: Exemplary teachers of students in poverty. London: Routledge.
Power, A. (2012). Shaping professional teacher identities through service learning: An Australian context. In T. Murphy & J. Tan (eds.) Service Learning and Educating in Challenging Contexts. 217-234. London: Continuum.
Power, A. (2011). The Eighth Wonder: Exploration of place and voice. In P. Karantonis & D. Robinson (Eds.) Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Power, A. (2008). Teaching for Musical Creativity, Reflection and Cultural Relevance: Meeting Challenges of Engagement in M. Atherton & B. Crossman (Eds.) Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity, (159-165) Sydney: University of Western Sydney.
Selected refereed journal articles
Power, A. & McCormack, D. (2012). Piano pedagogy with a student who is blind: An Australian case. International Journal for Music Education 30 (4), pp. 341-353.
Power, A. & Bradley, M. (2011). Teachers make a difference to the study of Aboriginal music in NSW. Australian Journal of Music Education 2, pp. 22-29.
Power, A. (2011). Against short term professional learning. Issues in Educational Research 21, pp 295-309.
Power, A. & Horsley, M. (2010). Pathways from global education understandings to teaching music, British Journal of Music Education, 27 (2), 141-150.
Power, A. (2010). Community engagement as authentic learning with reflection, Issues in Educational Research, 20 (1), 57-63.
Power, A. (2010). Overcoming Disadvantage for low socio-economic status students through Orff-style approach to meeting challenges of music in senior years of high school., Musicworks, 15, 61-65.
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 with one-teacher schools in NSW: An adventure in cultural understanding, MusicWorks, 13, 21-25.
Power, A. (2008). In action: Future educators in a New South Wales project, Pacific Asian Education, 20 (1), 46-53.
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., Clarke, M. & Hall, J. (2007). Embedding the NSW 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.
Elliott R., Power A., & Southwell B, 2007, Teacher Education for the Future: Some Australian Perspectives, Journal of Teacher Education For Sustainability, 7, 27-39.
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 (1), 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, pp. 4-11.
Selected published research reports
Cole, B., Mooney, M., Munns, G., Power, A., Sawyer, W. & Zammit, K. (2010). Engaging Middle Years Boys in Rural Educational Settings. NSW Department of Education and Training � Equity Programs and Distance Education Directorate.
Mooney, M. Dobia, B., Barker, K., Power, A., Watson, K. & Yeung, A. (2008). Positive Behaviour for Learning: Investigating the transfer of a United States system into the Department of Education and Training Western Sydney Region schools. Penrith, NSW: University of Western Sydney.
Munns, G., Arthur, L., Downes, T., Gregson, R., Power, A., Sawyer, W., Singh, M., Thistleton-Martin, J. & Steele, F. (2006). Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices: A report submitted to the Australian Government of Education, Science and Training.
