Dr Myung-sook Auh
Senior Lecturer in Arts Education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education
Biography
Dr Myung-Sook Auh
1. Positions: Dr Auh is a Senior Lecturer in Arts Education in School of Education and Program Director of Asia ConneXions at the SiMERR National Research Centre at the University of New England.
2. Qualifications: She completed her PhD in Music (Music Education) at the Case Western Reserve University in the USA in 1995, and a Master of Music (Music Education) at the University of Akron in the USA in 1992. She was trained as an operatic singer in her B.Mus degree in South Korea.
3. University employment: She has been at the University of New England (UNE) since 2005 and is continuing. Before UNE, she was at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2002 and at the University of New South Wales in 2000 – 2002.
4. Research: Her research interests are in music education, creativity in music, videoconferencing in schools. Her research topics include: pre-service teachers’ confidence in teaching music; prediction of musical creativity for students; compositional strategies for using traditional and graphic notations; effects of using videoconferencing for achieving curriculum outcomes in schools; and evaluation of the Asia ConneXions program.
5.Publications.Dr Auh has 57 publications in total, and her ORCID ID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5861-6014. Her publications (1995-2021) include: one edited book, 3 chapters in scholarly books, 12 refereed articles in scholary journals, and 24 refereed scholarly conference publications, and one public sector Government Report. Since 2013, she published one book chapter by Oxford University Press (Auh & Walker, 2017); three journal articles investigating schools’ use of videoconferencing for creative arts (Auh & Walker, 2014), examining cultural exchanges through video analyses (Reading, Auh, Pegg, & Cybula, 2013), discussing the role of culture in music education (Auh & Walker, 2018); and one government report submitted to the Australian Government (Auh, 2013). h-index. Dr Auh’s h-index is 8, and her publications attracted 296 citations.
6. Grants: From 2013-2021, Dr Auh brought total research funds of $1million to UNE through Asia ConneXions, and has built financial resilience for the Program by commercialising it through collaboration with Samyang Data Systems (a technology company) in South Korea. The collaboration with the Korean industry partner is in line with the international trends of commercialising research through innovation.
7. Teaching: Dr Auh’s teaching areas are: ‘secondary music pedagogy’ and ‘primary music and dance pedagogy’. At UNE, she teaches: Secondary Music Pedagogy Y7-10; Secondary Music Pedagogy Y11-12; Secondary Music ICT; Research-Based Secondary Music Pedagogy; and Primary Music & Dance.
8. Asia ConneXions: Dr Auh created Asia ConneXions with the Australian Government’s grant of $558,352 in 2013. Asia ConneXions is a global education program utilising videoconferencing technology. It connects Australian schools with schools in South Korea, Japan, China, Indonesia, and India for ‘authentic’ culture and language learning and global education. Impacts ofAsia ConneXions 2013 – 2021: In total, 28,000 students (13,891 Australian, 14,144 Asian) and 1,500 teachers (690 Australian, 886 Asian) from 900 schools (465 Australian, 464 Asian) in Australia and Asia interacted and engaged with each other for authentic culture and language learning and global education.
Teaching Areas
Co-ordinator of the Secondary Music Education program.
Co-ordinates all four core units of secondary music education:
- EDAE395, Secondary Music Pedagogy Y7-10
- EDAE397, Secondary Music Pedagogy Y11-12
- EDAE396, Secondary Music ICT
- EDAE398, Research-Based Secondary Music Pedagogy
Degree programs offering the Secondary Music Education program:
- Master of Teaching (Secondary Music)
- Bachelor of Teaching/Bachelor of Education Combined degree
Primary Research Area/s
Music education; Creativity in music; Videoconferencing in schoolResearch Interests
Creativity in music
Music teacher education
Use of videoconferencing in schools
Memberships
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
British Educational Research Association (BERA)
National Association for Music Education (NAfME) (USA)
International Society for Music Education (ISME)
Australian Society for Music Education (ASME)
May Day Group (Music Education, USA)
