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Janet Montgomery
Associate Professor, Music Education
Chair, Music Education Division
B.M.E., M.M.E., Wichita State University; Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Janet Montgomery has joined the University of Maryland music education faculty as the general music specialist and will serve as Chair in the Spring 2008. Prior to her work as Arts Coordinator for the Denver Public Schools, she served as an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Wright State University (Dayton, OH), and in the Wichita (KS) Public Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BME and MME degrees from Wichita State University. Her publication record includes co-author of Musical Growth in the Elementary School (Harcourt and Brace, 1996), a program author of The Music Connection, Grades K-8 (Silver Burdett, Ginn, and Foresman, 2000), author of various articles on special learners and comprehensive musicianship, and co-author of a chapter on contemporary curriculum in the New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (Oxford, 2003). Her most recent publications have appeared in the Music Educators Journal (January 2005 and March 2006). She is past Chair of Society for General Music in the Music Educators National Conference, past Chair for the ISME Commission on Music in Special Education, Music Therapy, and Music Medicine, and Past President of the Colorado Music Educators Association. She is the Special Learners Chair for Maryland Music Educators Association. Her research interests include history of music education, psychology of music learning, special needs students, and teacher education.
