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Robin Stevens was formerly Associate Professor of Music Education
in the Faculty of Education at Deakin University, Burwood and is now
a Principal Fellow in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Faculty
of Fine Arts and Music at The University of Melbourne. His early
school music teaching appointments included being class music
teacher at Box Hill Technical College and Director of Music at
University High School, Parkville.
Robin Stevens completed undergraduate degrees in music and in
education and then a PhD (1978) at the University of Melbourne with
a thesis on the history of school music in NSW and Victoria, 1848-
1920. Reflecting his interest in music education history, Robin has
published in The Australian Journal of Music Education, The
International Journal of Music Education, Research Studies in Music
Education, and The Journal of Research in Music Education, as well
as writing several historical entries in The Oxford Companion to
Australian Music. He was Founding Editor of the Australian Online
Journal of Arts Education, Research Editor of The Australian Journal
of Music Education, editor/compiler of the Bibliography of Australian
Music Education Research 1936-2013 and a member of the Editorial
Boards of the International Journal of Music Education (Research),
Music Education Research International, Research Studies in Music
Education. Australian Kodaly Journal and The Asia-Pacific Journal for
Music Education. He was also Editor of Music in Action, a magazine
for Australian music educators.
Robin Stevens is a member of the History Standing Committee of the
International Society for Music Education, is a past president of the
Australian Association for Research in Music Education, and has been
Chairperson and then Treasurer of the Victorian Chapter of the
Australian Society for Music Education. His university teaching has
included pre-service teacher education, graduate and post-graduate
music education courses, and supervision of Higher Degree by
Research students in music education. He was Principal Investigator
for the Music Council of Australia’s research project on “Trends in
School Music Education Provision in Australia” (2002-03) and has
served as a member of the Steering Committee for the National
Review of School Music Education (2004-05), of the Australian
National Music Workshop Advisory Group (2006), of the Australian
Government’s Music Education Advisory Group (Chair 2008-09) and is
a member of the School Music Action Group (sMAG). Robin was also
a member of the Board of Directors of the Australian Music
Examinations Board (VIctoria), 1993-2007.
He is co-editor of a book entitled The Origins and Foundations of
Music Education: Cross-cultural Historical Studies of Music in
Compulsory Schooling (published by Continuum International
Publishing Group Ltd, London, 2010) with Gordon Cox of the
University of Reading. A second edition of this book re-titled The
Origins and Foundations of Music Education: International
Perspectives was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017. He is
also compiler/editor of ISME’s International History of Music Education
website. He was inducted into the Music Education Hall of Fame of
the Association of Music Educators (VIctoria) in 2014 and awarded a
Fellowship of the Australian Society for Music Education in 2023.
Research Output
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1883-6880
Google Scholar Citation Profile:
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Associate Professor Robin Stevens
BMus, BEd, PhD Melb., FASME
Principal Fellow, Melbourne Conservatorium
of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music,
The University of MelbourneMelbourne