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Dr. Maud Hickey
Associate Professor
Music Education and Technology
Music Administration Building, Room 39
mhickey@northwestern.eduMaud Hickey is an instrumental and music education specialist and researcher. Before her collegiate career she was an elementary and high school band director....and had NO idea that such rich worlds of arts partnerships existed. Upon meeting Gail Burnaford at Northwestern University, Maud has taken an active role in the Partnerships Through the Arts project. Maud's strong belief that students in the School of Music at Northwestern University should be actively connecting and contributing to education arenas in Chicago schools is supported by the PTA project.
Maud's research interest has been on children's creative thinking and technology and she has published in a variety of journals and has presented at several State, National and International conferences on these subjects. Her research interests combine the cognitive aspect of creative thinking with innovative uses of technology to enhance and support creative thinking in children. Maud contributed a chapter on creativity in the arts in the New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (Oxford, 2002), and has plans to finish a book on teaching music composition to children that she hopes to publish in 2004. Maud's interest in technology has led her to develop two customized computer programs to help children create music on synthesizers and also to aid researchers in collecting this information. She maintains a website (MICNet) in which children, teachers, and composer from anywhere in the world can upload their own musical compositions or offer feedback to another.
Maud is a Board member for music education for the College Music Society, is the chair of the editorial commitee for the Music Educators Journal and past chair of the National MENC Creative Thinking Special Research Interest Group. Currently serves as the coordinator of music education, and advisor for students in the Masters of Music Education program at Northwestern University.
Maud is currently in her sixth year as a faculty member in the School of Music at Northwestern University. Previously Maud taught music education at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Prior to teaching at the collegiate level, she taught instrumental music for 8 years in public schools in Indiana and Wisconsin. As a musician, she has remained active throughout her career as an "amateur" performer. For the past five years she has played trombone as a regular in a local big band (the Old Man's Jazz Band), and has recently joined a jazz combo and also plays the piano as a volunteer in her church.