Diana Dansereau

Diana Dansereau

drd1@bu.edu

Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education

BM, Eastman School of Music; MME, The Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Georgia State University. Dr. Dansereau specializes in early childhood and elementary music education. She has collaborated extensively with Georgia State University's Center for Educational Partnerships in Music (CEPM), working within the Sound Learning program, Creating Pride partnership, and Laboratory Learning School Network of the Music-in-Education National Consortium. She has collaborated with the League of American Orchestras and CEPM to coauthor an evaluation of the League's Ford Made in America program and evaluated and coauthored reports on the League's Bank of America Awards for Excellence in Orchestra Education 2006 & 2007 honorees. She has presented at statewide, national, and international conferences, conducted professional development sessions for public and private school music and classroom teachers, and has been published in The Music Educators Journal. She has taught courses in music education at Penn State University and Georgia State University, and served as Assistant Director of Education & Outreach for the Pittsburgh Symphony, where she oversaw the orchestra's concert series and programs for children. She taught elementary general and instrumental music in Rochester, New York, early childhood music in Georgia and Pennsylvania, and was Early Childhood Music Specialist for the Lincoln School in Providence, RI. Her scholarly interests include the musical capacities of young children, classroom and music teacher education, school-community collaboration, and research methods in music education.