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Dr Jason Goopy

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2304
Campus: Mount Lawley  

Jason is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of Secondary and Instrumental Music Education in the School of Education.

Background

Dr Jason Goopy is an accomplished music educator, scholar, leader, and choral director. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon 15 years of teaching in Australian combined primary and secondary schools and is known for creating flourishing music learning programs.

Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how music engagement and learning shape and support individual and community identities and wellbeing. His monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published by Routledge. As a 2025 Fulbright Scholar hosted by Teachers College Columbia University, Jason will investigate how school and community music education in New York City enhances the wellbeing of young people who have experienced adversity.

Jason is deeply committed to supporting arts education and has substantial national leadership experience. He is the current President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the Music Education: Right from the Start initiative.

Current teaching

  • MUE2125/MUE6711 – Junior Secondary Music Education
  • MUE3120/MUE6712 – Senior Secondary Music Education
  • MUE3105/MUE6205 – Teaching Instrumental Music
  • MUE4105/MUE6305 – Directing School Music Ensembles
  • MUS3120 – The Art of Teaching and Learning Music

Professional associations

  • President, Australian Society for Music Education
  • Education Committee Convenor and Immediate Past President, Kodály Australia
  • Advisory Group member, Music Education: Right from the Start, Alberts Tony Foundation
  • ASME Representative, National Advocates of Arts Education
  • Tertiary Representative, Senior Music Curriculum Advisory Committee, WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Music Education
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing
  • Editorial Board Member, Australian Journal of Music Education
  • Chair, 2025 Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research

Awards and recognition

  • 2025 – Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship hosted by Teachers College Columbia University
  • 2024 – Research Award for Excellence in Australian Kodály-inspired Music Education, Kodály Australia
  • 2023 – ECU Aspire Award, Business Events Perth
  • 2021 – Callaway Doctoral Award, Australian Society for Music Education
  • 2021 – Fellowship (FHEA), Advance HE & The University of Queensland
  • 2005 – Hugh Brandon Prize for Orchestral Conducting, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Music and arts education
  • Identity
  • Wellbeing
  • Singing
  • Teacher education
  • Arts-based, narrative, and mixed research methods
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