Diana Joseph
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87943 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diana Joseph |
| PRENOMES | Diana |
| SOBRENOME | Joseph |
| ASSINATURA | JOSEPH D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6320-900X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Looking back, thinking forward
In 2023, the Australian Quality Initial Teacher Education Review found many graduates underprepared to teach in several key areas. As part of an ongoing study this article reports on Phase Two data (n = 60, 2025) across three Australian universities regarding ITE student perceptions of Art forms they feel most and least prepared to teach. Using a Qualtrics survey data were coded and analysed thematically. Respondents identified either Visual Arts…
Music teachers’ perspectives on artificial intelligence tools
This study offers an in-depth qualitative examination of how music teachers conceptualise and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) within their pedagogical and creative practices. Through interviews conducted across Australia and Italy using thematic analysis, two overarching themes emerged: (1) music teaching, and (2) ethics, ownership, and challenges. Findings reveal that teachers are developing sophisticated, domain-specific uses of AI exten…
Using Claude Romano’s ‘evential phenomenology’ to reflect on moments of grace and hope during the pandemic
Drawn from a wider study investigating the way people in Christian faith communities in Melbourne Australia experienced hope, grace and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper utilises Claude Romano’s notion of evential phenomenology to explore the lived experiences of three focus group participants in 2022. The phenomenological interpretation found that grace and hope were experienced as events, the significance of which were underst…
Embracing digital technologies
Purpose The guitar is an exceptionally popular instrument that has the potential to engage learners in music education, eliciting a positive impact on social, emotional and cognitive development of students. The purpose of this study is to raise awareness of how digital technologies have shifted how guitar can be taught from a teacher-centred approach to a student-centred approach by utilising guitar-specific technologies and general use digital …
Arts education matters, what are we waiting for? Perceptions of initial teacher education students in Australia
The Arts are known to foster creativity, empathy, self-efficacy, social awareness, and critical thinking skills. Engagement in and through the Arts contributes to building social cohesion while supporting wellbeing. This research takes place in Australia were the Arts (Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts) play an important role in society, and across school curriculum. This paper forms part of a wider study (name to be inserted). We …
Confidence, preference, and application of ICT and music technology
Societies around the world witnessed a necessary increase in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) during COVID-19. This facilitated communication and learning across all sectors, sustaining connectivity. Digital technology provided the conduit for the continuation of music lessons as innovative teaching and learning emerged across diverse locations and contexts. This article examines data collected from the Phase 2 of a natio…
Promoting cultural understandings through collaborative teaching
Valuing diversity in education and educational research is at the heart of higher education institutes. This research takes place in Australia, a multicultural society that is still predominantly Western Anglo-Celtic. Through blended modes of delivery, this paper focuses on three tertiary educators collaborative autoethnographic voices sharing how they used drumming as a conduit to teach about music and culture from different lands. In preparing …
An International quartet of voices
Providing students with opportunities to experience culturally diverse music traditions is an important, yet complex task for music educators. In this study, the author participants (four tertiary music educators from different places in the world) facilitated a series of online workshops based on songs from culturally diverse settings with a group of pre-service teachers at a Spanish university. Through autoethnographical vignettes, they share t…
ICT and music technology during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic forced music teachers to modify their practice as delivery moved online in education settings around the globe. This article forms part of our wider study, Re-imaging the future: Music teaching and learning, and ICT in blended environments in Australia, that commenced in March 2021. In this article, the authors analyze and discuss Australian music teachers’ perceptions of confidence, preference, and usage of music technologi…
Teaching songs from diverse cultures to pre-service teachers using a “Four Step Flipped” method
As music educators around the globe continue to work in blended environments, it is important to explore how pedagogical approaches can be adapted and reimagined in ways that enhance teaching and learning in this changing educational landscape. In this study, the authors drew on elements of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) to teach three culturally diverse songs to pre-service teachers at a Spanish university. Acting as culture …
“Debemos erradicar el miedo a las diferencias”
La colaboración transnacional en la educación superior ha demostrado tener innumerables beneficios. En este estudio de caso, a partir de reflexiones en grupos pequeños, grupos de discusión y comentarios escritos anónimos del alumnado, autores de diferentes lugares del mundo exploran las percepciones del profesorado en formación sobre el aprendizaje de canciones multiculturales en línea. Utilizando el análisis temático, los datos fueron codificado…
What is it like to be unable to gather physically for Sunday church services? Phenomenological reflections on three church leaders’ experiences of community during Covid-19
This paper uses phenomenology to explore three Christian church leaders’ lived experience of community during the COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne, Australia, focussing on what it was like to be unable to gather physically for Sunday church services. The phenomenological texts of these church leaders are reflected on using three insight cultivators – Heidegger’s notion of community as a horizon of common concern, Jean-Luc Nancy’s idea of commun…
A balancing act of keeping the faith and maintaining wellbeing”
Purpose The pandemic presented many new challenges is all spheres of life including faith communities. Around the globe, lockdowns took pace at various stages with varying restrictions that included the closure of places of worship which significantly affected the way people serve God and gather as a community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the wellbeing and resilience of members of Christian …
‘The Potted Palms is bigger than each of us individually’
Participating, learning music and performing are key factors to joining music ensembles. This paper situates itself in Melbourne (Australia) and forms part of my research project Promoting relationships through sound in formal and informal settings where I investigated why members of an instrumental group met to share their music making and practice and how it contributes to their quality of life. I draw on a phenomenological viewpoint from quest…
“It Blew My Mind … ”
In the light of critical race theory, the authors argue that by engaging in multicultural music through song, students gain cultural and historical understandings of minority groups which may break down barriers that propagate Eurocentrism in music education. In this paper we share our field experience using Zoom videoconferencing as a conduit to access and include music from Africa in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in Australia. In t…
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies
There is ‘Plenty’ of Grace—it is Not a Limited Commodity
During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Melbourne in Australia endured one of the longest lockdowns in the world. Although the severe restrictions for faith communities in particular posed many setbacks, new opportunities for worship were experienced. This paper focuses on a research project that explored hope, grace, and resilience during COVID-19 in Melbourne. A total of 106 participants from a variety of Christian denominations in Melbourn…
Climate conditions and dietary practices during the Second Iron Age studied through the multi-isotope analysis of bones and teeth from individuals of Thézy-Glimont, Picardie, France
Presenting, performing and exploring music and culture
Globally, tertiary teacher educators are expected to prepare student teachers to meet the needs of diverse and inclusive classrooms. This study explores a one-off teaching and learning experience across two universities (in Australia and Spain) with undergraduate student teachers undertaking an initial teacher education programme. The focus is on music education as a positive way to promote non-Western music and culture like that of Africa to enh…
Twists, turns and thrills during Covid-19
The global pandemic crisis has significantly affected music educators around the world. In Australia, higher education institutes and schools had to swiftly move from face-to-face teaching to online classes. The authors draw on narrative reflection to show key challenges and opportunities that have affected their teaching in Melbourne. Author one (Dawn) works in initial teacher education programmes as a tertiary music educator, and Author two (Lu…
“I did not know what to expect”
Work–life balance has become a buzzword in many corporate settings. This study situates itself at a higher education institute in Melbourne (Australia) where African music (singing and drumming) was used as a lever for faculty staff to “break from work” and “learn about a new music and culture”. Drawing on email communication, questionnaire data, and anecdotal feedback, a phenomenological approach was adopted to explore the benefits, challenges, …
A shared energy”
This study builds on and contributes to work in the area of African music in Australia in community settings. This research explores why people came together to share music-making and practice at a drumming retreat, and what they experienced as a recreational group music activity. Employing thematic analysis to code the data, two overarching themes (drumming for leisure and cultural connections) are discussed. I argue that West African drumming a…
A trio of teacher education voices
Purpose This research is situated at a metropolitan university in Melbourne (Australia) where the authors work in initial teacher education programs within the same faculty. The purpose of this study is to raise awareness that collegial, collaborative and “co-caring” environments can foster an improved sense of belonging, acceptance and inclusion in the academy. They also argue that communities of practice may foster an improved sense of belongin…
“If you can breathe, you can dance”
Older women ballet and contemporary dancers resist the pervasive stereotypes of the dancing body as young, graceful, and athletic. They embody and enact a generative habitus, resisting cultural socialization that would deny them voice, visibility, and validation. This study explores the understandings of a group of older women dancers who are members of the Fine Lines contemporary dance ensemble for mature bodies, Melbourne, Australia. The data f…
“It Is More Than Just about Music”
For older people, participating in leisure activities enhances their sense of social, emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological wellbeing. This article reports on a case study that situated itself across two southern hemisphere countries – Australia and South Africa – and with two ensembles, namely: an instrumental ensemble in Melbourne (all musical readers); and a vocal ensemble in Clarens (all non-readers of music). The authors drew on Sel…
Meanings of leisure for older people
In Australia and in many parts of the world, older people participate in line dancing. Our phenomenological study explored whether attending a regular line dancing class might offer a group of older people opportunities for active and successful ageing. Our research investigated the meanings and practices fostered in a community line dancing class in Melbourne. We gathered data via an interview with the teacher of the group, observation of a clas…
Climate conditions and dietary practices during the Second Iron Age studied through the multi-isotope analysis of bones and teeth from individuals of Thézy-Glimont, Picardie, France
Colour, culture and difference in Australian teacher education
Purpose Although much has been written about international students in higher education in Australia, there is a paucity of research and discussion about international academics especially non-whites and their lived experience in the workplace. This paper represents the voices of two academics working in metropolitan universities in Melbourne. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of how in spite of all the goodwill and highbrow researc…
A shared energy”
This study builds on and contributes to work in the area of African music in Australia in community settings. This research explores why people came together to share music-making and practice at a drumming retreat, and what they experienced as a recreational group music activity. Employing thematic analysis to code the data, two overarching themes (drumming for leisure and cultural connections) are discussed. I argue that West African drumming a…
A trio of teacher education voices
Purpose This research is situated at a metropolitan university in Melbourne (Australia) where the authors work in initial teacher education programs within the same faculty. The purpose of this study is to raise awareness that collegial, collaborative and “co-caring” environments can foster an improved sense of belonging, acceptance and inclusion in the academy. They also argue that communities of practice may foster an improved sense of belongin…
Singing and companionship in the Hawthorn University of the Third-Age Choir, Australia
The international University of the Third Age (U3A) embodies the principles of lifelong learning and personal fulfilment amongst members. The research reported in this article focused on the Choir of the U3A Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia and the benefits perceived by members undertaking this active music engagement in non-competitive choral singing. This small-scale phenomenological qualitative case study is part of a wider study of active arts …
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies
Older People in a Community Gospel Choir
This research explores the role of community music in the lives of older Australians. This qualitative case study investigated the meanings and understandings ascribed by participants to their musical engagement in the South of the River Community Gospel Choir. This mixed a cappella SATB choir was formed in 2002 in Melbourne. The choir began with a repertoire of African-American Gospel music and South African Freedom Songs. With time their musica…
Music Education and minority groups cultural and musical identities in the ‘newer’ South Africa
Music Education, as well as cultural and musical identities are all being renegotiated, post‐Apartheid, within the so‐called ‘newer’ rather than the commonly known ‘new’ South Africa. The developing situation with certain minority groups is particularly interesting. Education in general has undergone much change since the first democratic elections in 1994: music education specifically has been affected by such change in terms of content, deliver…
Design Research
The term "design experiments" was introduced in 1992, in articles by Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992). Design experiments were developed as a way to carry out formative research to test and refine educational designs based on principles derived from prior research. More recently the term design research has been applied to this kind of work. In this article, we outline the goals of design research and how it is related to other methodolo…
Music Education and minority groups cultural and musical identities in the ‘newer’ South Africa
Music Education, as well as cultural and musical identities are all being renegotiated, post‐Apartheid, within the so‐called ‘newer’ rather than the commonly known ‘new’ South Africa. The developing situation with certain minority groups is particularly interesting. Education in general has undergone much change since the first democratic elections in 1994: music education specifically has been affected by such change in terms of content, deliver…
Retaining a frisson of the 'other
In Australia, the 1960s saw a broadening of music offerings from other cultures in school materials from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). This is a useful indicator for changing perceptions. Since then, increasingly 'authentic' materials have become available but how far have we really come? Blacking (How musical is man? University of Washington Press, Seattle, Citation1973) identified the difficulty of acquiring and understanding, s…
Sharing music and culture through singing in Australia
This article discusses the notion of sharing music and culture as an effective platform to celebrate diversity in Melbourne, Australia. My research project Celebrating Music Making and Finding Meaning investigates and illustrates a context of diversity, one that promotes respect in a multicultural society sharing music and culture of a minority group. In 2007, I interviewed members of the South African choir in Melbourne; here I report on some da…
African music
This paper explores the notion of African music as a way forward to negotiate a ‘space’ in contemporary society. The word ‘space’ is used as a metaphor to explore and experiment with the dynamics of culture and hybridity. The authors view themselves as ‘agents of change’ and knowledgeable professionals in the teaching of African music, one based in South Africa (Johannesburg) and the other in Australia (Melbourne). They reflect on examples from t…
Zebra crossing
I use the metaphor zebra crossing in my reflective narrative to describe my plight and struggle as a non-white person growing up and working in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the apartheid era. This article considers and compares the notions of culture, diversity and identity as I now work in a tertiary institution in Melbourne, Australia. I reflect on my teaching of African music and position myself as ‘the other’ at zebra crossings, as I cr…
Community, commitment and the ten ‘Commandments’
Membership of community music groups by older people can enhance quality of life, provide a sense fulfilment and create a space through which cultural identity may be shared. This case study explores community and cultural engagement by members of the Coro Furlan, an Italian male community choir in Melbourne, Australia. Members were interviewed and data analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three broad themes were identif…
Community music-making in regional Australia
Community arts in Australia, as in many other countries, continue to permeate society, illuminating the past and shaping the future. This article situates itself as an aspect of community music through creative music-making within a larger research project that started at Deakin University (DU) (Melbourne, Australia) in 2011 called ‘Flows and Catchments’. Through the lens of creative arts and music-making, I argue that community partnerships betw…
Personal, musical and social benefits of singing in a community ensemble
Australia has a diverse, multilayered society that reflects its rich musical life. There are many community choirs formed by various cultural and linguistically diverse groups. This article is part of an ongoing project, Well-being and ageing: community, diversity and the arts (since 2008), undertaken by Deakin University and Monash University, that explores the cultural diversity within Australian society and how active music engagement fosters …
Singing and companionship in the Hawthorn University of the Third-Age Choir, Australia
The international University of the Third Age (U3A) embodies the principles of lifelong learning and personal fulfilment amongst members. The research reported in this article focused on the Choir of the U3A Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia and the benefits perceived by members undertaking this active music engagement in non-competitive choral singing. This small-scale phenomenological qualitative case study is part of a wider study of active arts …
Promoting cultural understandings through song across the Tasman
As tertiary music educators across the Tasman we argue that music, particularly song, is an effective medium for teaching and learning about non-western music when preparing generalist primary Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs). Using ‘voice’ as a portable and accessible vehicle to transmit cultural understandings, we draw on the Zimbabwean proverb ‘if you can speak you can learn to sing and if you can walk you can learn to dance’ to foster music creati…
Changing the world one voice at a time
This paper explores the intersections between social entrepreneurship, corporate philanthropy and community engagement. The Melbourne-based not-for-profit organisation Creativity Australia oversees With One Voice choirs that offer 20 programmes with about 3000 participants. Creativity Australia fosters community music engagement and seeks corporate funding to support this work. Data were gathered via documents and semi-structured interviews with …
Older People in a Community Gospel Choir
This research explores the role of community music in the lives of older Australians. This qualitative case study investigated the meanings and understandings ascribed by participants to their musical engagement in the South of the River Community Gospel Choir. This mixed a cappella SATB choir was formed in 2002 in Melbourne. The choir began with a repertoire of African-American Gospel music and South African Freedom Songs. With time their musica…
‘Oh Joy, Oh Rapture’
For over four decades ‘The Oily Chart Opera Company’ have annually produced and performed a Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera in Pretoria, South Africa. In this strictly amateur group, designed to allow busy people to participate over six to seven weeks, members undertake all the roles on stage as well as making costumes and stage sets. Unique to the group is a single music ‘coach and accompanist’ having served for 45 years and many of the current…
Singing and spirituality in a South African male voice group
Since the mid 1970s, a group of twelve business and professional members of a male singing group have continued singing together in Pretoria, South Africa. These singers were interviewed as part of a project on spirituality and well-being: music in the community. From the interview data, two overarching themes emerged, membership benefits and spiritual connections; these are discussed in this research project. Members’ views of benefits related m…
Tasman Connections through Song
Community is an overarching word that encompasses people in formal and informal settings covering a broad range of activities. Engaging through sound “in community” and “as community” provides the opportunity for participants to come together making and sharing music through song. This paper focuses on voice (singing) across the Tasman within formal and informal locations. Author One draws on interview data within an “informal” space with three c…
Colour, culture and difference in Australian teacher education
Purpose Although much has been written about international students in higher education in Australia, there is a paucity of research and discussion about international academics especially non-whites and their lived experience in the workplace. This paper represents the voices of two academics working in metropolitan universities in Melbourne. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of how in spite of all the goodwill and highbrow researc…
Meanings of leisure for older people
In Australia and in many parts of the world, older people participate in line dancing. Our phenomenological study explored whether attending a regular line dancing class might offer a group of older people opportunities for active and successful ageing. Our research investigated the meanings and practices fostered in a community line dancing class in Melbourne. We gathered data via an interview with the teacher of the group, observation of a clas…
“If you can breathe, you can dance”
Older women ballet and contemporary dancers resist the pervasive stereotypes of the dancing body as young, graceful, and athletic. They embody and enact a generative habitus, resisting cultural socialization that would deny them voice, visibility, and validation. This study explores the understandings of a group of older women dancers who are members of the Fine Lines contemporary dance ensemble for mature bodies, Melbourne, Australia. The data f…
“It Is More Than Just about Music”
For older people, participating in leisure activities enhances their sense of social, emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological wellbeing. This article reports on a case study that situated itself across two southern hemisphere countries – Australia and South Africa – and with two ensembles, namely: an instrumental ensemble in Melbourne (all musical readers); and a vocal ensemble in Clarens (all non-readers of music). The authors drew on Sel…
Insights from Academics Teaching International Students in Australia
Australia continues to be an attractive destination in the world for international students. For higher education institutions to remain globally competitive there is a need to deliver high quality teaching and learning programs and adequate support structures. This paper forms part of a wider study on improving work placement for international students, their mentors and other stakeholders at Deakin University (Australia) and adds to the body of…
Compassionate Dictatorship”
In Australia, the ageing population generate challenges, pressures and opportunities for both governmental and community organisations. Involvement in community choirs offers older people diverse benefits that increase with ongoing participation. The music directors/conductors (MD/C) of community choirs are pivotal in the success of ensembles. This paper forms part of our wider study into Well-being and ageing: community, diversity and the arts i…
Presenting, performing and exploring music and culture
Globally, tertiary teacher educators are expected to prepare student teachers to meet the needs of diverse and inclusive classrooms. This study explores a one-off teaching and learning experience across two universities (in Australia and Spain) with undergraduate student teachers undertaking an initial teacher education programme. The focus is on music education as a positive way to promote non-Western music and culture like that of Africa to enh…
Twists, turns and thrills during Covid-19
The global pandemic crisis has significantly affected music educators around the world. In Australia, higher education institutes and schools had to swiftly move from face-to-face teaching to online classes. The authors draw on narrative reflection to show key challenges and opportunities that have affected their teaching in Melbourne. Author one (Dawn) works in initial teacher education programmes as a tertiary music educator, and Author two (Lu…
“I did not know what to expect”
Work–life balance has become a buzzword in many corporate settings. This study situates itself at a higher education institute in Melbourne (Australia) where African music (singing and drumming) was used as a lever for faculty staff to “break from work” and “learn about a new music and culture”. Drawing on email communication, questionnaire data, and anecdotal feedback, a phenomenological approach was adopted to explore the benefits, challenges, …
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