Past ACCFs

Emeritus Professor: Music Education
Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom

Prof Swanwick GRSM, LRAM, ARCO, MEd, PhD, (Hon) FTCL, is Emeritus Professor at the University of London, Institute of Education. Previously Professor of Music Education, from 2000 to 2002 he was also Dean of Research. His books include: Popular Music and the Teacher, 1968; A Basis for Music Education (1979) Music, Mind and Education, 1988 (also in Spanish and Japanese); Musical Knowledge: Intuition, Analysis and Music Education, 1994 and Teaching Music Musically, Routledge, 1999 (also in Portuguese and Japanese). In 1987 he became first Chairman of the National Association for Education in the Arts and from 1991 to 1995 was Chair of the Music Education Council (UK). From 1984 to 1998, with John Paynter, he was editor of the British Journal of Music Education. During 1998 he was Visiting Professor, University of Washington and from 1999 – 2001 Advisory Professor at the Institute of Education in Hong Kong. In 2004 he held a Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.