DANIELLE SIREK
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 Teacher Education in the Arts in Ontario

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Dr. Danielle Sirek (PI)

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Dr. Terry Sefton (CI)

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Chenkai Chi
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Fiona Evison
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Shayna Brissett-Foster
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Sara Logan
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Jake Knight
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Orko Oyon
Maitland Tossos
Thu Thi-Kim Le
Melissa Hambleton

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated sudden and dramatic changes to the way faculties of education prepare teachers. Teacher educators in the arts are particularly affected, operating under a new set of institutional constraints and social pressures as they struggle to prepare preservice teachers to teach music, visual arts, drama, and dance in the “new normal” of distancing and material practice limitation. The purpose of this project is to conduct an Institutional Ethnography (DeVault & McCoy, 2004; Smith, 2005) of generalist (non-specialist) teacher education in the arts in Ontario before and during (and after) the COVID-19 pandemic. This will include developing a better understanding of institutional education and health regulations, and how these inform pedagogical approaches. Our study has two objectives, each of which address a gap: 1) create a baseline of information on 13 programs of generalist teacher education in the arts and pedagogical approaches in Ontario, using several indices of comparison (data on programs has been collected summer 2021); and 2) make conceptual advances on how the intertwining factors of institutional regulations (education and public health) and "status" of arts courses impact teacher education in the arts in Ontario. We gratefully acknowledge funding from Western Research, University of Windsor Research Stimulus Fund, and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Publication
Sefton, T.G. & Sirek, D. (2023). Identity, memory, and performance in the time of pandemic: A duoethnography. 
Visions of Research in Music Education, 41(1), 1-14. 
https://opencommons.uconn.edu/vrme/vol41/iss1/6/

Presentations
Sefton, T.G. & Sirek, D. Absence and aura: “Off the record” stories of arts teacher educators, and the cared-for in research encounters. International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education, Indiana, USA, June 2025

Sirek, D. & Sefton, T.G. Precarity and policy in teacher education in the arts. MayDay Colloquium 36, Indiana, USA, June 2025

Sirek, D. & Sefton, T.G. Teacher education in music in Ontario. Ontario Music Educators’ Association, London, Canada, November 2024 

Sefton, T.G. & Sirek, D. Sustaining the arts, sustaining music education: Institutional practices and everyday work experiences in teacher education. International Society for Music Education, Helsinki, Finland, July 2024 

Sefton, T. & Sirek, D. Hard stories: Going “off the record” with music teacher educators. Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, Ireland, May 2024

Sirek, D. Teacher Education in Visual Arts. Ontario Art Education Association, Toronto, Canada, April 2024

Sirek, D., 
& Sefton, T.G. A sociological study of music education in Ontario faculties of education: Who is doing what? International Society for the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME), Universidad Veracruzana, June 2023
 
Sefton, T.G. & Sirek, D., *Chi, C. Teacher Education in the Arts in Ontario: An Environmental Scan. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), York University, May 2023
 
Sirek, D. *Knight, J., *Chi, C., Sefton, T.G. Teacher Education in the Arts in Ontario. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), York University, May 2023
 
Sirek, D. & Sefton, T.G. Pedagogy of the arts: An Institutional ethnography. Provoking Curriculum Conference, Western University, March 2023

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  • Teaching & Supervision
    • Western University >
      • Arts Education & Arts-Based Methodologies
      • Vocal Music in the Senior Grades
      • Elementary Music for Specialists
      • Music in the Elementary Grades
      • Dance & Drama in the Elementary Grades
      • Pedagogies in Creativity & Arts Integration
      • Research Capstone in Creativity & Arts Integration
    • Supervision
  • Research
    • Engaging Generalist Teachers in Music Ed
    • Teacher Education in the Arts
    • Recent Publications
  • Creative
    • Canadian Chamber Choir
    • Windsor Choral Festival
    • Amabile Choirs of London
    • Chor Amica
    • Creative Research
  • Contact