David Forrest

Professor David Forrest

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About

Professor David Forrest is Professor of Music Education in the School of Art at RMIT University.

Awards
- 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision Excellence
- 2020 Inaugural Member Service Award, International Society of Music Education
- 2015 Honorary Life Membership, Australian Society for Music Education
- 2009 The Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria, Outstanding Professional Service Award
- 2006 Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Society for Music Education (FASME)

Professional associations:

- Association of Music Educators (Victoria)
- Australian Association of Research in Education
- Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education
- Australian Music Centre
- Australian Society for Music Education
- International Society for Music Education
- Music Council of Australia
- Musicological Society of Australia
- Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
- Member Chair, Education Panel (Victoria), Churchill Fellowships
- Publications Editor & National Executive Member, Australian Society for Music Education
- Victorian Institute of Teaching

Supervisor projects

  • Responding to Industry Needs and a Rapidly Evolving Industry: A Design Thinking Approach to Undergraduate Course Development in Communication Design
  • 8 Apr 2024
  • Exploring community histories through collaborative coauthored youth projects
  • 6 Mar 2024
  • Not tame enough
  • 6 Mar 2024
  • Plant Autonomy: entangled presence, perception, and intelligent behaviour
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Upside-down and monstrously misunderstood: an exploration of autism with Bats & Sharks
  • 4 Jul 2022
  • HOLDING SPACE - COURTING POTENTIAL Aesthetics and The Non-Objective (Open) Artwork
  • 4 Dec 2020
  • Among My Souvenirs: The Role of Site, Artefact and Embodiment as Tools of Remembrance in Material and Visual Culture
  • 4 Dec 2020
  • Crossing the Equator: Reconsidering a New Cross-cultural Aesthetic Paradigm of Screen-based Immersion of Landscape (Mountains and Water)
  • 26 May 2020
  • Multi-level contexts influencing technological, pedagogical and content knowledge in middle-schooling pedagogy
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • Adjacencies and distances: Sculptural site intervention
  • 4 Oct 2018
  • Ever Altered: Exploring the French Colonial Impact on Vietnamese Australian Diasporic Identity Through Archival Art Practice
  • 3 Sep 2018
  • The Sacred Ground: Enhancing and Constructing the Transcendent State in the Immersive Installation Environment
  • 15 May 2017
  • Thriving in an equilibrium of disorder: Mid-career professional classical musicians' diverse artistic activities in music
  • 7 Jun 2016
  • Teaching for Creativity and Creative Processes for Music Educators in Victorian State Primary Schools
  • 6 Jun 2016
  • Agile Recorder: An Iterative Chamber of Practice
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Sexual Choreography Queer Identity, Post-AIDS and Post-Internet
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Australian Self-taught Contemporary Professional Musicians: Biographies, Learning Sources and Experiences
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • The Benefits of Piano Lessons from the Perspectives of Parents, Students and Teachers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Museum Pedagogy and Learning Experiences: An Investigation into Museum Education from Instructional Perspectives
  • 2 Mar 2009
  • Amplifying Mentor Teachers' Voices: Capturing First-hand Perspectives on Mentoring Preservice Teachers During the Practicum in Initial Teacher Education
  • 21 Nov 2002

Teaching interests

Music education, Arts education, Arts Management, Music for Children, Piano pedagogy, Russian and Soviet music education, Teacher education, Doctoral education in the arts.

Research interests

A large amount of David’s work has been focused on the development and implementation of policy in music and arts education, at the state, national and international levels. He has published collections of work on doctoral research in music education, visual art education, dance and drama education, and art. He has pursued ongoing research on the Russian composer and educator Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–87). This work integrates his ongoing research interests in educational philosophy, musicology, music for children, and piano music. The Kabalevsky work has informed his study into the philosophy and practical place of music and the arts in the school curriculum as well as the importance of music for children (as performers and as members of an audience).
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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