Janice Waldron was a wonderful friend, colleague, and music education scholar who forged new ground in music learning and teaching around communities of musical practice online and offline, participatory culture, social media, and YouTube. This project honoring and building on her work was part of a panel for the Mayday Symposium in 2023.
To embody the spirit of concepts important to Janice’s work such as participatory culture, collective and networked learning, gift giving, and paying it forward, I’m sharing my notes on Janice’s publications, the video I shared at the Mayday conference panel, information on my process to prepare for the panel, and related resources. I hope that people continue to be in dialogue with and build upon Janice Waldron’s important work.
Go straight to a set of interactive notes from 25 of Janice’s publications.
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Context, Information, and Resources for The Janice Waldron Project
About Janice Waldron
Janice’s passion for community music, folk music practices, and Irish Traditional music in particular combined with her curiosity, openness to how people’s music engagement evolves along with societal and technological change and a little bit of serendipity led to 2 decades of closer inspection of things that were happening online and offline. Janice like many of us thought that students in K-12 contexts should have opportunities to engage in more expansive ways that reflect how people know and do music throughout society and the world. While most of her research focused on offline and online music communities of practice outside of K-12 settings she suggested that music educators acknowledge and adopt how people learn and do music in community music contexts and argued that music educators should support students in developing capacities to engage flexibly as musicians and to navigate and negotiate the media and platforms where they might connect with others across time and place.
Convergence, Emergence, & Curricular Inquiry – Video for Mayday 2023 Panel
Watch a video of my presentation “Convergence, Emergence, & Curricular Inquiry” from the Mayday 2023 Panel “The Life, Work, & Music of Dr. Janice Waldron.”
- One of the AR/VR videos was of the app PianoVision by Zac Reid
- Another AR/VR video was the Augmented Reality mode of Spatial.io of a VR room on learning the Ukelele designed by Han-Ning Chen, a doctoral student in Music Learning and Teaching at ASU who is working on VR/AR/XR initiatives for music learning and teaching
- The VR video of a folk festival is from the Virtual Folk Festival by Tom Kaine in Spatial.io
- OAIM, one of the main communities of musical practice that Janice studied, has started to experiment with VR:
- VR/AR/XR initiatives and projects for music education with ASU Music Learning & Teaching Program
- Han-Ning Chen is a doctoral student at Arizona State University’s Music Learning and Teaching Program – Han-Ning designed the Ukelele Virtual Reality space (in Spatial.io) that I show in the video in augmented reality mode, which I recorded in my home office. Han-Ning is thinking deeply about the implications and possibilities of VR/AR/XR for music education and constantly inspires me with her creativity, work, and thinking in this area.
Resources on Janice Waldron’s Scholarship
You can access much of Janice Waldron’s research via her google scholar page. Many of her articles and chapters are available for free online.
In honor of Janice’s work and scholarship on participatory culture and collaborative learning in online and offline communities, I’m sharing my notes on 25 of Janice’s publications. Most of these notes consist of quotes from articles organized by themes of the big ideas she discussed.
The notes are shared in the form of a published Obsidian Vault. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Access the notes on Janice Waldron’s Scholarship.
This project page and the associated set of interactive notes are included in Action, Criticism Theory For Music Education Volume 22, Issue 4 as “Epilogue: The Janice Waldron Project.” The issue contains several contributions honoring Janice’s life and work and includes scholarship related to many of the themes and issues in Janice’s research. Consider engaging with the issue.
How do I cite this?
For this page and for the set of interactive notes you could use the typical approach to citing a website in whatever citation system you are using.
Alternatively you could cite this page and the set of interactive notes by citing: Epilogue: The Janice Waldron Project” Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 22 (4): 184–85
The video presentation can be cited:
Tobias E. S. (2023) Emergence, Convergence, and Curricular Inquiry: Honoring and Building on the Work of Janice Waldron [Part of Joint Plenary Session “The life, work, and music of Dr. Janice Waldron” with Danielle Sirek, Roger Mantie, Gareth Dylan Smith, Christopher Cayari] Mayday Group Colloquium, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 2023 https://youtu.be/r83iI4GW9KM?si=afaG56aFAZNhb8BA