Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Cathy Benedict

Assistant Professor of Music Education

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Cathy Benedict has been teaching music education graduate and undergraduate classes at New York University since 2000.  She is currently an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in Music Education.  Her scholarly interests lay in the reciprocity of the teacher/student, student/teacher relationship and the difficulties in facilitating music education environments in which students engage in a transformative process that encourage a perspective of a justice-oriented citizen.  To this end, her research agenda focuses on the processes of education and the ways in which teachers and students can share a path of learning that interrogates and challenges taken-for-granted normative practices. 


Presentations

  • The 4th International Conference for Research in Music Education, Exeter, England April 5-9, 2005. Chasing Legitimacy: The National Music Standards Viewed Through a Critical Theorist Framework.
  • Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education, University of Hamburg, Germany, May 18-21, 2005. Naming Our Reality: Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin.
  • College Band Directors' National Association's Biennial National Conference, NY, Allsup, R. & Benedict, C. (February 2005). The Problem of Band: An Inquiry into the Future of Instrumental Music Education.
  • First International Symposium on Music Education, Equity, and Social Justice, Teachers College, Columbia University, October, 2006. Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. From Whence Justice: Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education.
  • 11th Annual Urban Music Leadership Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-21, 2006, Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities
  • The 5th International Conference for Research in Music Education. April 10-14, 2007, School of Education, University of Exeter. Processes of Alienation: Orff and Kodaly.
  • New York State School Music Association, Rochester, NY, November 2006. Appropriating Multiculturalism: Noun/Adjective Or Verb?
  • Narrative Soundings. 2nd International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, February 7-9, 2008 School of Music, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. Refusing Narratives: The Ethics of Functional Literacy.

Degrees Held

  • Ed.D. Columbia University, Teachers College, Department of Curriculum and Teaching
  • M.Ed. Columbia University, Teachers College, Department of Curriculum and Teaching
  • M.M.E. Holy Names College, Emphasis on Kodaly, Oakland, California
  • Orff Certification Level III

Publications

  • Kassell, C. (March 1998). Music and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Music Educators Journal, 84 (5), 29-32.
  • Benedict, C. (2006, March). The U.S. National Music Standards Viewed Through A Critical Theorist Framework. Music Education Research, 8 (1).
  • Benedict, C (2006). Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities (Chapter 1). In C. Frierson Campbell (ed.), Perspectives in Urban Music Education. Lanham, Maryland: R & L Education.
  • Benedict, C. (Spring 2007). Naming Our Reality: Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 15, (1), pp. 23-35
  • Benedict, C. (Fall 2007). On the Narrative of Challenged Assumptions. Research Studies in Music Education, 29.
  • Benedict, C. & Schmidt, P. (December 2007). From Whence Justice? : Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 6, (4).

Courses

  • New Student Seminar: E27.0005
  • Teaching Music in the Elementary Grades: E85. 1048
  • Orff/Kodaly: E85. 2149
  • Foundations of Music Education E85.1091
  • Critical Readings in Music Education E85.2010

Research Interests

  • Social Justice, Equity and Music Education
  • Urban Education:  Place and Pedagogy
  • National Standards
  • Critical Theory:  Transgression and Resistance
  • Pedagogy and "methods"

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