EDCP faculty

Research Interests

Biography

Dr. Charlene Morton taught for ten years in Canadian public schools as an elementary classroom and music teacher before completing her graduate studies at the University of Western Ontario and OISE/University of Toronto, Canada. She was a faculty member of the School of Music, University of Prince Edward Island before moving in 2002 to the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching courses in music education, social foundations, curriculum issues, and global education, she coordinates the Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability Cohort for the UBC Teacher Education Program.

Selected Publications

Morton, Charlene. (in progress). Putting education back in music education: Supporting education’s social and ecological mandates through the development of interdisciplinarity and cross-curricular consciousness. In Oxford handbook of music education philosophy, eds. Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega. Oxford University Press.

Morton, Charlene. (in press). Breaking through “crusts of convention” to realize music education’s potential contribution to critical multiculturalism. In Critical multiculturalism: From theory to practice, eds. Stephen May and Christine Sleeter. Routledge.

Gould, Elizabeth, June Countryman, Charlene Morton, and Leslie Stewart Rose, eds. 2009. Exploring social justice: How music education might matter. Waterloo, ON: Canadian Music Educators’ Association/L’association canadienne des musicians éducateurs.

Morton, Charlene. 2008. Contributing author to chapters “What is global citizenship” and “Teaching and learning approaches.” In Road to Global Citizenship: An Educator’s Toolbook, ed. Yael Harlap. Created by Global Citizenship Community of Practice. Vancouver, BC: Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, UBC. [online http://tag.ubc.ca/programs/gcProgramsandToolbook.php]

Morton, Charlene. 2001. Boom diddy boom boom: Critical multiculturalism and music education. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 9, 32-41.

Morton, Charlene. 2000. Addressing bias in music: A Canadian case study. Music Education Research, 2, 111-125.