Dr Janet McDowall

Welcome.

I am a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of South Australia and was also a lecturer with its antecedent institutions - Hartley College of Advanced Education and South Australian College of Advanced Education, Kingston College of Advanced Education. My professional experience also includes teaching music to students in schools. Currently I am working in music education for young children, and language and multiliteracies. I am a part of the team of staff from the University of South Australia who are also delivering an early childhood degree in Singapore.

• Early Childhood Music Education
• Multiliteracies
• Music technology

Australian Society for Music Education (Member of South Australian Chapter Council)

PhD

MEd (Deakin)

GradDipTeach(ECE) (Hartley CAE)

BMus (Adel)

DipEd (Adel)

• Music and young children
• Music Technology
• Digital arts

2003, 'Music technology: New literacies in the early years' , in Young Children and Learning Technologies. Selected papers from the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 3.5 Open Conference, eds. J. Wright, A. McDougall, J. Murname & J. Lowe (eds) Sydney, Australia, July 2003, pp. 83-88.

Ebbeck, M. & McDowall, J. 2003, 'Making the Arts Come Alive Throung Active Researching', Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, 2 (1).

1999 ‘Young children’s responsiveness to music’ in L. Berk (ed.) Landscapes of Development, Wadsworth, Belmont

1998 Young children’s responses to a music program on CD ROM. Paper presented at 15th Australian Computers in Education Conference, July 5 – 8, 1998, Adelaide

1994 ‘Current issues in early childhood education and related teacher education’, Proceedings of the 1994 National Conference of the Association of Music Education Lecturers, Hobart

1994 ‘Primary music survey: summary of findings’, Australian Society for Music Education (South Australian Chapter) Newsletter, June

1994 ‘Music technology: a medium for learning through play’. Paper presented at conference ‘Playing to learn-learning to play’, De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies

1993 ‘Primary music survey: summary of findings’. Paper presented at the 1993 Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Music Education (South Australian Chapter)

1991 ‘Children’s music preferences’. Paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association for Early Childhood Education, Adelaide, September