Friday June 23, 2006, 5.00 pm
School of Music & Music Education, Webster Bldg Room, G18
University of NSW

"The Child Musician"
Professor Gary E. McPherson
Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in Music Education
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
This presentation outlines some of the research that Gary has undertaken
during the past two years. It includes a discussion of a young, highly
gifted pianist (aged 7-9) that he has been studying in Hong Kong, additions
and elaborations on his longitudinal research with children who are learning
musical instruments, examples from a study he conducted with Hong Kong
school children using the Eccles and Wigfield expectancy-value motivation
theory and comments on his new edited volume for Oxford University Press:
"The Child as Musician: A handbook of musical development".

The seminar will be followed by dinner, RSVP James Renwick by June 2:
jrenwick@bigpond.net.au