About

Dr Jason Goopy is an accomplished music educator, scholar, leader, and advocate. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education at Edith Cowan University for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon 15 years of teaching in Australian combined primary and secondary schools, including as a Highly Accomplished Teacher and Head of The Arts, and is a specialist in Kodály-inspired pedagogy and choral conducting. He is known for creating flourishing music learning programs.

Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how music engagement and learning shape and support individual and community identities and wellbeing. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award, and his monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published by Routledge. As a 2025 Fulbright Scholar hosted by Teachers College Columbia University, Jason will investigate how school and community music education in New York City enhances the wellbeing of young people who have experienced adversity. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the Australian Journal of Music Education.

Jason has substantial national education leadership experience and has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to supporting the profession. He is the current national President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the Alberts Tony Foundation initiative, Music Education: Right from the Start. He is the chair of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate of University Teaching, University of Melbourne, 2021
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2020
  • Master of Music (Aural Pedagogy), The University of Queensland, 2009
  • Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Education, The University of Queensland, 2007
  • Associate Diploma of Music (Saxophone), Australian Music Examinations Board, 2005

Professional accreditation

  • Fellowship (FHEA), Advance HE, 2021
  • Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME) Curriculum Accreditation (First Steps in Music; Conversational Solfege 1 & 2; Conversational Solfege Upper Levels), 2019
  • Certificate of Performance (Singing), Australian Music Examinations Board, 2018
  • Accredited Lecturer for the Australian Kodály Certificate, Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia, 2008
  • Australian Kodály Certificate (Secondary), Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia, 2007

Service leadership