Research & Publications

Research Interests

Music education; Teacher education; Singing; Kodály-inspired music education

Research Grants
  1. Barblett, L., Lovering, C., Ayre, K., Boron, J., Menzel, L., Pollit, J. & Jackson-Barrett, L. (2023-2025). Co-designing Playful Health-Arts, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Healthy Communities Grant, $259,923.
  2. Goopy, J. & Boron, J. (2024-2026). Music teachers’ perspectives and learnings from Australian Kodály Certificate courses, Edith Cowan University Academic Staff Association, Solidarity Research Fund, $20,000.
Journal Articles
  1. Rhodes, D., Byrne, M., & Boron, J. (2024). Queering primary initial teacher education. Continuum, 38(3), 325–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2336186
  2. Main, S., Byrne, M., Scott, J., Sullivan, K., Paolino, A., Slater, E., & Boron, J.(2023). Primary specialisations in Australia: graduates’ perceptions of outcome and impact. The Australian Educational Researcher, 50(2), 371–390. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-021-00496-y.
Thesis
  1. Boron, J. (2016). The first International Kodály Seminar. [Unpublished master’s thesis]. Liszt Academy of Music. Abstract: The first International Kodály Seminar was held in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1970. This event was one of the earliest training programs that allowed both Hungarians and foreigners to study Kodály’s educational concept. Whilst the international adaptations of Hungarian music education that developed at this time are well documented, little information exists about the circumstances that led to this first Seminar. Through engagement with the primary source material, including the Seminar program, lecture papers, demonstration class lesson plans and the interviews conducted by the author, this research highlighted important elements of both Hungarian musical culture and Hungarian music education that could support the development of Kodály training programs in operation today.
  2. Boron, J. (2007). Motivations for continuation of instrumental music study: comparing the experience of year 12 students and young adults as well as identifying the implications for tertiary music institutions. [Unpublished honour’s thesis]. School of Music, The University of Western Australia.