Jane Cassidy
Music Education
Jane
Cassidy (Professor and Chair of Music Education). Cassidy is Professor
and Chair of Music Education at Louisiana State University where her responsibilities
include teaching courses in elementary music education, music in special
education, psychology of music, and measurement and evaluation and supervising
student teachers. Dr. Cassidy is an active clinician invited to present
workshops on current issues in elementary music education including the
inclusive music classroom, curriculum development, classroom management
strategies, and teacher effectiveness. She is the coordinator of Musical
Mondays, a partnership with the public schools which provides musical
experiences in an extended day program for elementary children through
field experiences for undergraduate music education students. Her research
interests center around musical development of infants and children, music
education for children with special needs, and teacher effectiveness.
Most notably, her research with critically premature infants is eliciting
cross discipline interest from the music therapy and medical communities
for its impact on establishing protocol for presentation of music in the
NICU. She regularly presents research papers at national conventions of
Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and the American Music Therapy
Association. She has published extensively in music education and music
therapy journals, has served on the editorial board of the Journal
of Research in Music Education, currently serves on the editorial
board of the Journal of Music Therapy, and is Chair-elect of the
Music Education Research Council of MENC. In 1999 she was awarded a prestigious
Distinguished Professor Award for excellence in teaching, research, and
service at LSU.
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-3258
Fax: 225/578-2562
EMail: jcassid@lsu.edu
