In addition to this page, I tend to keep a fairly up-to-date list of my academic publications on my ResearchGate profile.
Journal articles, Book chapters, and non-academic publications by James Humberstone
In defence of Explicit Teaching and Critical Thinking
The last few days, I’ve re-posted a couple of articles I played a minor role in authoring for the Australian Association for Research in Education. These focus on AERO (the Australian Education Research Organisation), the way they push out “evidence” for teachers to follow in Australian education (and the fact that is contested), the lack…
Keep readingEvidence is important, but what is the problem?
A re-post of the second article we wrote for the AARE blog recently. This one a bit of a history lesson to get the current debate in perspective! By Brad Fuller, James Humberstone and Rachael Dwyer Following on from our previous piece, we explore the necessity for genuine evidence-based education practice to guide…
Keep readingAERO says educators can trust its evidence. Can they really?
This article is re-published from the AARE blog. I’ll be re-posting the second part tomorrow, and a follow-up post soon. By Rachael Dwyer, Brad Fuller and James Humberstone. Big credit to Rachael and Brad who did most of the work on this! The first in a two-part series on AERO and evidence. Tomorrow:…
Keep readingAdvocating for music education today – can we stay together?
We have many wonderful music education experts here in Australia, and around the world, who each advocate for music education in their own way. You might think that such advocacy would be applauded by all who work in music education, especially when we seem to be agreed that the importance of the arts is diminished…
Keep readingSchool mobile phone bans
A friend sent me a great meme yesterday – He framed it as some pushback from GenZ about the upcoming mobile phone ban in schools. Last year, my kids’ (government) school implemented a mobile phone ban with the use of Yondr pouches. Beforehand, the school asked for parent feedback, which I thought was a great…
Keep readingProject-Based Learning for digital sound communication
My wonderful colleague Brad Fuller and I published a paper on the pedagogies we’ve developed in a course I originally wrote on digital sound which has become really popular at the University of Sydney since the pandemic (it’s entirely online). The challenge in this paper was writing for the Media Journal in Music Education for…
Keep readingStimulating music educator worldview change througha pedagogy of provocation, critical thinking and peer-review
This is the second research article arising from data collected from my MOOC, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education. Thousands of music teachers internationally have now responded to my “pedagogy of provocation”, in which we consider the latest research and practice in Music Education and try to challenge our own worldviews. Here is…
Keep readingDrum Programming Minus One, and The Patented Humberstone Four-Finger Technique (Text Book Chapters)
I wrote two chapters for a wonderful new music education textbook, The Music Technology Cookbook, edited by Adam Patrick Bell. The book itself has 56 chapters, some as single activities for learning music with technology, and others linked ideas to create term-long projects with your students. My chapter Drum Programming Minus One is a play on the idea…
Keep readingSeeking Innovation as Exploration of Aesthetic (Book Chapter)
My chapter in the new book Creative Research in Music, edited by my colleagues Anna Reid, Jeanell Carrigan, and Neal Peres Da Costa, accounts for the creative research process for my 2015 release Noise Husbandry, an electro-acoustic installation at the Australian National Maritime Museum on Sydney’s Darling Harbour, performed by Ensemble Offspring. Abstract This chapter presents a…
Keep readingNurturing Vulnerability to Develop Pedagogical Change Through MOOC Participation and Public Blogging (Book Chapter)
A chapter I wrote with Catherine Zhao and Danny Liu drawing upon data from my MOOC, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education, for the Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, edited by Janice L. Waldron, Stephanie Horsley, and Kari K. Veblen. Abstract Despite several decades of ground-breaking achievements in music education research…
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