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Dr Jason Goopy

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2304
Email: j.goopy@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML16.146  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8766-1458

Jason is the Coordinator of Secondary and Instrumental Music Education at the School of Education.

Background

Dr Jason Goopy (he/him) is an accomplished music educator, scholar, leader, and choral director. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon 15 years of teaching in Australian combined primary and secondary schools and is known for creating flourishing music learning programs.

Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how inclusive music engagement and learning shape and support individual and community identities and wellbeing. His monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published by Routledge. As a 2025 Fulbright Scholar hosted by Teachers College Columbia University, Jason will investigate how school and community music education in New York City enhances the wellbeing of young people who have experienced adversity.

Jason is deeply committed to supporting arts education and has substantial national leadership experience. He is the current President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the Music Education: Right from the Start initiative.

Current teaching

  • MUE2125 / MUE6711 – Junior Secondary Music Education
  • MUE3120 / MUE6712 – Senior Secondary Music Education
  • MUE3105 / MUE6205 – Teaching Instrumental Music
  • MUE4105 / MUE6305 – Directing School Music Ensembles
  • MUS3120 – The Art of Teaching and Learning Music

Professional associations

  • President, Australian Society for Music Education
  • Education Committee Convenor and Immediate Past President, Kodály Australia
  • Advisory Group member, Music Education: Right from the Start, Alberts Tony Foundation
  • ASME Representative, National Advocates of Arts Education
  • Tertiary Representative, Senior Music Curriculum Advisory Committee, WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Music Education
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing
  • Editorial Board Member, Australian Journal of Music Education
  • Chair, 2025 Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research

Awards and recognition

  • 2025 – Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship hosted by Teachers College Columbia University
  • 2024 – Research Award for Excellence in Australian Kodály-inspired Music Education, Kodály Australia
  • 2023 – ECU Aspire Award, Business Events Perth
  • 2022 – Equity and Inclusion Within Education Research Award, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
  • 2021 – Callaway Doctoral Award, Australian Society for Music Education
  • 2021 – Fellowship (FHEA), Advance HE & The University of Queensland
  • 2005 – Hugh Brandon Prize for Orchestral Conducting, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Music and arts education
  • Identity
  • Wellbeing
  • Singing
  • Teacher education
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Arts-based, narrative, and mixed research methods

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate in University Teaching, The University of Melbourne, 2021.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2020.
  • Master of Music in the field of Aural Pedagogy, The University of Queensland, 2009.
  • Bachelor of Music With Honours Class 1, The University of Queensland, 2007.
  • Bachelor of Education (Secondary), The University of Queensland, 2007.
  • Diploma Associate in Music, Aust in the subject of Saxophone, Other QLD registered training organisation, 2005.

Research Outputs

2024

Books

Journal Articles

  • Young, A., Goopy, J. (2024). Making space for inclusive approaches: A review of adolescent gender identity in high school choirs. International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, 12(2024), 22 pages.
  • Forbes, M., Goopy, J., Krause, A. (2024). Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory. Psychology of Music, 2024(Article in press), 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241267863.
  • Forbes, M., Goopy, J., Krause, AE. (2024). The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers. Musicae Scientiae: the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 28(2), 237-253. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649231198002.
  • Meng, H., Goopy, J. (2024). Early-career music teachers’ perspectives of their initial teacher education program in China. Research Studies in Music Education, 46(2), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X231157190.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Goopy, J. (2023). Intersections and conflicts between adolescent boys’ musical possible selves, university study, and parent values. Psychology of Music, 51(2), 624-639. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221101651.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Goopy, J. (2022). Children’s identity work in daily singing-based music classes: A case study of an Australian boys’ school. Research Studies in Music Education, 44(3), 570-588. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X221109482.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Goopy, J. (2013). Extra-musical effects’ and benefits of programs founded on the Kodály philosophy. Australian Journal of Music Education, 2(January 2013), 71-78.

Research Projects

  • Music teacher growth and development from Australian Kodaly Certificate courses, Academic Staff Association of Edith Cowan University, Solidarity Research Fund (SRF), 2024 ‑ 2026, $20,000.
  • The role of trauma-informed community music education in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2022 (Stream 1), 2023 ‑ 2024, $39,963.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Young adolescents' Social and Emotional Learning in a singing games program
  • Master of Education, Children's perspectives of parent music education values in a community choir using narrative inquiry
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Virtual reality in secondary schools in WA: Are we ready for the new tomorrow?
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The wellbeing of early-career generalists and specialists teaching music in Australian primary schools

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, An Investigation into Early Childhood Musical Experiences between Families and the Preschool Child

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Narratives of families who speak English as an additional language or dialect on engaging with their children’s education during COVID-19
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