Jonathan Savage

Jonathan Savage BA(hons), PGCE, MPhil, PhD

Education

1997-2004
University of East Anglia, Norwich
PhD in Musicology at the School of Music (Supervisors: Dr. S. Waters & Professor B. Somekh)
PhD thesis: Re-imagining Music Education for the 21st Century: New approaches to teaching, learning and research with ICT. University of East Anglia (June 2004)

1995-6
University of East Anglia, School of Education and Professional Development
PGCE Secondary Music

1992-5
University of East Anglia, Norwich.
BA (hons) Music, Class I

Employment

02/05 – Managing Director of UCan.tv & SGB-media.
09/01 – Reader in Education, Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.
09/07 – 08/09 Enterprise Fellow, MMU
09/06 – 08/09 Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Northern College of Music
03/03 – 08/09 Associate Lecturer, Open University (Flexible PGCE)
01/99 – 09/01 Head of Music, Debenham CEVC High School.
09/96 – 01/99 Teacher of Music, Religious Education and ICT at Stowmarket High School.
06/88 – 09/92 Various engagements as a professional musician including work as a keyboard player in cabaret bands and musicals.

Publications

Books

Savage, J. (due for publication in early 2010) Cross Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School. London, Routledge.

Savage, J. & Fautley, M. (due for publication in mid 2010) A Reflective Reader for Secondary Education (Exeter, Learning Matters).

Savage, J. & Fautley, M. (due for publication in mid 2010) Cross Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School: The Arts. London, Routledge.

Savage, J. & Fautley, M. (2007) Assessment for Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools. Exeter, Learning Matters. (Co-authored book)

Savage, J & Fautley, M (2007) Creativity in Secondary Education. Exeter, Learning Matters.

Savage, J. (2006) Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Music. London: David Fulton

Referred Scholarly Journals

Savage, J. & Fautley, M. (2009) ‘Assessment of Composing in the Lower Secondary School in the English National Curriculum’. British Journal of Music Education [accepted for publication, 20/2/10]

Savage, J. (2009) ‘Collaborative Approaches to Initial Teacher Education in Music: Embedding Qualified Teacher Status within a Conservatoire Undergraduate Degree Programme’. International Journal of Music Education [submitted for publication, 15/9/09]

Savage, J. (2009) ‘Hand2Hand and Dot2Dot: Developing instruments for the music classroom’. Journal of Music, Technology and Education. [accepted for publication 1/2/10]

Savage, J. (2009) ‘The Assessment of Composing at Key Stage 4 in English Secondary Schools’. British Journal of Music Education. [accepted for publication 13/2/10]

Savage, J. (2010) ‘A Survey of ICT Usage Across English Secondary Schools’. Music Education Research 12:1, pp.47-62.

Savage, J. (2007) ‘DubDubDub: Improvisation using the sounds of the world-wide-web’. Journal of Music, Technology and Education 1:1.

Savage, J. (2007) ‘Reflecting Through Peshkin’s I’s’. International Journal of Music Education 25 (3) pp.193-204.

Savage, J. (2007) ‘Reconstructing Music Education through ICT’. Research in Education 78, p.65-77.

Savage, J. (2005) ‘Information communications technologies as a tool for re-imagining music education in the 21st century’. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 6:2 2005. http://ijea.asu.edu/v6n2/.

Savage, J. (2005)‘Working Towards a Theory for Music Technologies in the Classroom: How pupils engage with and organise sounds with new technologies’. British Journal of Music Education 22:2, pp.167-180.

Savage, J. (2004) ‘Sound2Picture: Developing Compositional Pedagogies from the Sound Designer’s World’. Music Education Research 7:3 pp 331-348.

Savage, J. (2002)‘Reflecting Others: Towards a digital arts curriculum’ ARIADA 2 (2002) www.ariada.uea.ac.uk.

Savage, J. (2002)‘A Digital Arts Curriculum? Practical ways forward’. Music Education Research 4:1 (March 2002), pp.7-24.

Savage, J. (2001)‘Sound Reflections: The influence of acoustic ecology on classroom composition’ Soundscape 2:2, pp.36-39.

Savage, J. (2001)‘Dunwich Revisited: Collaborative composition and performance with new technologies’. British Journal of Music Education 18:2, pp.139-149.

Savage, J. (2001) ‘Informal Approaches to the Development of Young People’s Composition Skills’. Music Education Research Journal 5:1 2003 pp.81-85.

Savage, J. (2000) ‘Approaches to Music Technology in the Curriculum’ European Music Journal (http://www.music-journal.com).

Savage, J. (2000) ‘Establishing an Effective Model for the Evaluation of Music Technologies’ Journal of Technology in Music Learning, Florida State University: MENC pp.12-17.

Professional Journals

‘Electroacoustic Composition: Practical models of composition with new technologies’ Journal of the Sonic Arts Network 14, pp.8-13 (2002).
‘Lessons from the Studio: New models of composition with technology’ NAME (2002).
‘No Teacher Development without Curriculum Development’ Continuing Professional Development Update (December 2000).

Book Chapters

(2010, accepted for publication) Sounding Off! The New Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Oxford, OUP.
(2007) Teaching Music with ICT in Finney, J & Burnard, P (eds) Music Education with Digital Technology. London, Continuum.
(2007) Is Musical Performance Worth Saving?: The importance of musical performance in teaching and learning in Spruce, G & Philpott, C (eds) Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School (second edition) London, Routledge pp 135-148.
(2004) ‘The Door is Now Open to Learn How to Speak’ in Paterson, A. & Ley, B. (eds.) Ideas In, Music Out Matlock, NAME.
(2002) ‘New Models for Creative Practice with Music Technologies’ pp.38-44 in NAME How Are You Doing? Learning and assessment in music Matlock, NAME.

Other

Research Report for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music: Assessment of Composing at Key Stages 3 and 4 in English Secondary Schools (December 2008).
Open University author/consultant for the TeachandLearn.net initiative (October 2002 – April 2003).
QCA author/consultant for new materials relating to Music and ICT (November – July 2002; December 2002 – February 2003).
‘No holds barred’ Times Educational Supplement15/2/02.
‘Music ICT Subject Knowledge for Trainee Teachers (Web-based materials) Open University (November 2001).
‘Reflecting Others: Innovative approaches to using new technologies in the music classroom’ Times Educational Supplement (1st June 2001, p.16).
‘Working across the arts using a non-musical stimulus’. A Year 10 music/drama project was described by Anice Paterson in National Association of Music Educators Composing in the Classroom: The creative dream (High Wycombe: NAME, 2000) p.21.
‘Music to their ears’. My work was featured in this article written by Emma Haughton (The Guardian, October 12th, 1999).

Conferences

Refereed International Conferences

‘Assessing creativity in the secondary school classroom: Exploring variations in teachers’ conceptions and practices’. International Society of Music Education (accepted for the 2010 conference in Beijeng with Dr Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge and Dr Martin Fautley, Birmingham City University).
‘Establishing an Effective Model for the Evaluation of Music Technologies’. Paper given at the National Symposium on Music Instructional Technology, Auburn University, Alabama (July 1999).

Refereed UK Conferences

‘Reflecting Through Peshkin’s I’s’. Paper given at the Fifth International Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter (April 2007).
‘Sound2Picture: Developing compositional pedagogies from the sound designer’s world’. Paper given at the Fourth International Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter (April 2005).
‘Innovative Approaches to Arts Technologies’. Paper given at the East Anglian Researchers Conference, University of Cambridge (April 2004).
‘Informal Approaches to the Development of Young People’s Composition Skills’. Paper given at the Third International Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter (April 2003).
‘Innovative Approaches to Teaching, Learning and Research with ICT’. Symposium leader at the Third International Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter (April 2003)
‘Expanding the Boundaries of Collaborative Musical Composition through Imaginative Uses of New Technologies’ Shared Visions (PALATINE) conference paper (September 2002).
‘Fringe Benefits? Extending the boundaries of music education’. Paper given at the ‘Training in Education’ conference, Britten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies (July 2001).
‘Exploring Composition with New Technologies’. Paper given at the Second International Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter (April 2001).
‘Dunwich Revisited: Collaborative Composition and performance with new technologies’. Paper written for the Sound Practice Conference, Dartington College of Arts (February 2001).
Conferences run at Debenham CEVCH School for middle and secondary teachers addressing the use of ICT in music education at Key Stages 2 and 3 as part of the school’s BEACON initiative.

Keynote Presentations

‘My Cinema for the Ears: Re-imagining Music Education for the 21st Century’. Keynote address given to the Manchester Music Service Conference, 4th July 2003.

Funded Research and Enterprise Projects

• July 2009 HLSP funding for research/training programme for the North West Chamber Orchestras (£92k from the North West Universities Association/Higher Learning and Skills Partnership) 01/08 – 01/09 Enterprise fellowship award (£12.5k from MMU Vice Chancellor);
• 01/07 – -4/08 Key Stage 2 CPD programme for Trinity Guildhall (£25k of funding secured from the DfES for regional delivery of this national programme);
• 09/06 – 08/07 Assessment at Key Stages 3 and 4 (£10k of funding secured from the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music, in collaboration with the University of Central England);
• 01/05 – 01/07 Space Collaborator (£30k funding by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
• 09/04 – 08/05 Research into the impact of Sound2Game (£5k funding by PALATINE);
• 09/04 – 08/05 Online Training Materials for Music and ICT (£10k funded by the Training & Development Agency)
• 09/03 – 08/04 Sound2Picture: An exploration of Sound Design for the KS3 Curriculum (£4k, internal funding);
• 09/03 – 08/04 Developing the Teaching and Learning of Composing for all in the 21st Century (£6k, internal funding);
• 09/01 – 08/02 ‘Informal Approaches to the Development of Young Peoples’ Compositional Skills’; 1 year research project funded by a Palatine Development Award (£5k).

Other Experience

• Associate Editor for the Journal of Music Education with Technology;
• Member of the Editorial board for the Music Education Research and Music Performance Research journals;
• Editorial reviewer for the Educational Action Research & British Journal of Educational Research;
• Teaching and supervision of students on various doctoral studies programmes (MRes, MPhil & PhD);
• LA (Cheshire East) Governor at Sandbach High School for Girls;
• Substantial experience as an orchestral percussionist including a two year membership of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and a year with the Fodens Brass Band.