Dr. Woodward has given presentations at universities and professional conferences around the world.
CHENEY, WA, October 07, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Sheila C. Woodward, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Since 2012, Dr. Woodward has flourished in her service as the president of the International Society for Music Education and later as the executive vice president of the International Music Council. She has been recognized in her appointments as a full professor of music in 2017, and as the director of music education at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington from 2012. A native of South Africa, she obtained a Bachelor of Music in music education and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cape Town in 1982 and 1993, respectively. In her formative teaching years, she excelled as a music educator for a variety of educational institutions in South Africa, such as St. Augustine's Primary School, Norman Henshilwood High School, and the University of the Western Cape, among other institutions. An award winner of the South African Center for Science Development, Dr. Woodward was recognized as a research associate of the University of Cape Town. In 2000, Dr. Woodward was recruited as an assistant music professor at the University of South Florida School of Music, where she found success for five years.
From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Woodward thrived as an assistant music professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, which promoted her to the chair of the music education department in 2007. Amongst her multiple examples of service on boards and committees, she has also excelled as the chair of the Council for Innovations of the National Association for Music Education from 2012 to 2014.
As a revered expert in the role of music in social justice and music's impact on an individual's well-being from early childhood, Dr. Woodward has given presentations at universities and professional conferences around the world. She has also contributed chapters to several published works, such as "The Oxford Handbook on Social Justice in Music Education" and "The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education." Since 2017, she has sat on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Music Education. From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Woodward was a reviewer for Early Years: An International Research Journal and, from 2010 to 2016, she served on the editorial Board of the International Journal for Music Education.
To attest to her success, Dr. Woodward was named an honorary faculty member at Mianyang University in China and an honorary academician at the International Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Russia in 2016. She has received a myriad of grants in recognition of her research and academic efforts over the decades and, notably, earned the University of Southern California Innovative Teaching Award from the 21st Century Centre for Teaching Excellence in 2001 and 2004. Dr. Woodward attributes her success to the effort she devotes to supporting students and colleagues across the world, as helping other individuals succeed has been the driving force of her career.
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