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Callaway Doctoral Award

In memory of Sir Frank Callaway founding President of ASME, the Callaway Doctoral Award will be presented on a biennial basis to the best doctoral thesis from an Australian university in the area of music education. The thesis can be for a PhD or for an applied doctorate. The award will be based on the contribution made by a doctoral thesis to furthering theoretical, empirical, historical and/or methodological knowledge in and about music education. In particular, the ability of a doctoral thesis to make conceptual advances in music education theory, policy and practice, to indicate methods for improvement of music education, to assess the significance and viability of innovation in music education, or to contribute to the advances in methodology for research in music education will be assessed as criteria for the award.

The award will be made by a sub-committee of the National Executive of the Australian Society for Music Education, and will be announced at the biennial national conference of the Society. The recipient will be invited to present her/his research in a Doctoral Award session of the conference. The recipient's conference costs will be borne by the Society.

The process for the adjudication of the award is:

• nominations for the award are made six months before the date of the Society's biennial national conference and a decision for the award is made to the National Executive of the Australian Society for Music Education two months before the biennial national conference
• any recipient of a doctoral degree relevant to music education in the period since the previous national conference of the Society can be nominated for the award
• nomination for the award is to be made by the Dean or relevant Head of School/Department and consists of
  • a letter of nomination indicating the contribution the thesis makes to music education
  • a copy of the thesis abstract
  • copies of all examiners' reports on the thesis
• any supervisor or examiner of a doctorate nominated for the award will not be a member of the doctoral award sub-committee
• if the doctoral award sub-committee decides that no doctoral thesis fulfils the criteria for the award in any biennial period, the award will not be made.
  

Nominations to be considered for 2009 must be recieved by the 1 February 2009
Address: Callaway Doctoral Award, ASME National Secretary, PO BOX 141, Mawson ACT 2607

2005

David Cleaver University of Tasmania

Illuminating Musical Lifeworlds: phenomenological narratives of the musical lifeworlds of five senior secondary school students.

2007

Dawn Bennett The University of Western Australia

Classical instrumental musicians: Educating for sustainable professional practice.

Fellowship of Australian Society for Music Education

Fellowship of the Australian Society for Music Education is one of the highest honours that the Society can award, and should be seen by ASME members and Fellows and by the wider education community to be a recognition of outstanding and distinctive contributions to the advancement of music education.

A Fellowship Awards Committee can only make decisions on the written evidence placed before them. A Fellowship is a national award and the evidence offered must provide sufficient proof that the person is indeed worthy of this highly prestigious award. It is therefore essential that in preparing nominations, nominators address the criteria set out in these Fellowship Guidelines.

The proforma nomination form, to be used for nominations is part of the Fellowship Guidelines document.

Nominations to be considered for 2009 must be recieved by the 1 April 2009
Address: Fellowship Award, ASME National Secretary, PO BOX 141, Mawson ACT 2607

2006

Associate Professor David Forrest RMIT University

David Forrest has made a significant, sustained and outstanding contribution to ASME through his work as Publications Editor (and a member of the National Executive) since 1995, and to music education through his work on DB Kabalevsky, music curriculum development and the ongoing work on professional standards for music educators.

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