EDCP faculty

Research Interests

Biography

Peter Gouzouasis is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia. Dr. Gouzouasis is a lifelong learner of music and media, and considers himself a serious student of guitar and other fretted instruments and performance in jazz, North American folk, Celtic, and Greek music contexts.

Over his 16 years at UBC, Dr. Gouzouasis’s work has evolved through three related strands. A lifelong commitment to music and an amodernist philosophical orientation are the foundations of his research program and provide strong conceptual links. Gouzouasis considers that pedagogy is the art of both teaching and learning, informed by theory, praxis, and poesis, with a bit of sofia thrown in for good measure.

Dr. Gouzouasis’ FAME (Fine Arts and new Media in Education) cohort is entering its seventh year in the Faculty of Education. FAME was the first group of students to go 24/7 with laptop wireless technologies at UBC. In 2003, Dr. Gouzouasis received the the Sam Black Award for Excellence in Education and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts.

Most recently, Dr. Gouzouasis has been working on a series of longitudinal studies that examine factors in arts participation and academic achievement of British Columbia Grade 12 students. The overall objective of this research is to learn about various factors, relationships, and differences in academic, social and arts (music, visual art, drama & dance) achievement of all students across BC from 1995 to 2004. This research uses quantitative methods to analyze a large data set to determine the differences between academic achievement in language, mathematics, and science of students who participate in arts programs and those who have no involvement with the arts in secondary school.

Selected Publications

Gouzouasis, P. (2006). A reunification of musician, researcher, and teacher: A/r/tography in music research. Arts and Learning Research Journal, 22 (1), 23-42.

Gouzouasis, P. & LaMonde, A. M. (2005, July 3). The use of tetrads in the analysis of arts-based media. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 6 (4). Retrieved July 4, 2005 from http://ijea.asu.edu/v6n4/.

Gouzouasis, P. (2005, July 27). Fluency in general music and arts technologies: Is the future of music a garage band mentality? Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 4 (2). Retrieved July 30, 2005 from http://mas.siue.edu/ACT/index.html