Abrahams Appointed to Advisory Board for International Conference

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Daniel Abrahams

Daniel Abrahams, assistant professor of music education, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), which is part of the International Academy of Technology, Education and Development.

ICERI is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists, and professionals from the educational sector. After 12 years, it has become a reference event where more than 700 experts from 80 countries gather to present their projects and share their knowledge of teaching and learning methodologies and educational innovations. The Advisory Board was created as a consultant body with the specific aim of getting new ideas and proposals for this conference. It is composed of selected professors and researchers from all over the world. 

The 12th annual ICERI conference will be held in Seville (Spain) the week of Nov. 11-13.

Abrahams is an assistant professor of music education at the University of Arkansas. A native of Massachusetts, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Temple University, a Master of Music degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in music education from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

As a music educator, Abrahams is the inaugural recipient of the Jupiter Band Instruments Award for Excellence in Teaching Concert Band presented by NAFME: The National Association for Music Education and the 2010 Nebraska VFW Citizenship Educator of the Year. He has presented seminars at the national meetings of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME); presented a seminar in Critical Pedagogy for Music Education at the Conservatorio Brasiliero de Musica in Rio de Janeiro; presented a seminar on Reciprocal Teaching at the 2nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology of Music, London, England; and presented seminars on Reciprocal Teaching and Informal Learning at the 29th International Society for Music Education World Conference, Beijing, China. 

Abrahams frequently writes about the use of reciprocal teaching, sociotranformative apprenticeship, and learner agency in the music classroom. His article on the impact of reciprocal teaching on the development of musical understanding in high school student members of performing ensembles is published in Visions of Research on Music Education and reprinted in Keith Swanwick's Music Education: Major Themes (Vol. 3) published by Routledge. His most recent research examined how conducting pedagogy fosters personal and musical agency among beginning instrumental conductors. Before coming to the University of Arkansas, Abrahams taught middle and high school instrumental music in the Omaha Public Schools. 

Abrahams is a contributing author in Perspectives on Music in Urban Schools published by NAfME: The National Association for Music Education, The Child as Musician, 2nd edition, and the Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy, both published by Oxford University Press.