Dr Don Lebler

GCert Higher Education, PhD Education

Deputy Director (Teaching and Learning)

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Research expertise

  • Learning and teaching of music
  • Music education
  • Curriculum design
  • Popular music

Publications (selected)

  • Lebler, D. (2008a). Perspectives on assessment in the learning of music. In D. Bennett & M. Hannan (Eds.), Inside, Outside, Downside Up: Conservatoire Training and Musicians’ Work (pp. 181–193). Perth: Black Swan Press.
  • Lebler, D. (2008b). Popular music pedagogy: peer-learning in practice. Music Education Research, 10(2), 193–213.
  • Lebler, D., Burt-Perkins, R., & Carey, G. (2008, July 20–25). What the students bring: Examining the attributes of commencing conservatoire students. Paper presented at the 28th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education, Bologna, Italy.
  • Lebler, D., & Carey, G. (2008, 15- 20 July). Prior learning of conservatoire students: A popular music perspective. Paper presented at the 17th International Seminar of the International Society for Music Education Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician Commission, Spilamberto, Italy.
  • Lebler, D., & McWilliam, E. (2008, June 25–27). Aligning Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment for building creative capacity in undergraduate students: A Case Study from the Conservatorium. Paper presented at the Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons Conference, Brisbane.
  • Burt-Perkins, R., & Lebler, D. (2008, 15- 20 July). 'Music isn’t one island’: The balance between depth and breadth for music students in higher education. Paper presented at the 17th International Seminar of the International Society for Music Education Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician Commission, Spilamberto, Italy.
  • Carey, G., & Lebler, D. (2008, 15- 20 July). Prior learning of conservatoire students: A classical music perspective. Paper presented at the 17th International Seminar of the International Society for Music Education Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician Commission, Spilamberto, Italy.
  • Lebler, D. (2007a). Getting smarter music: a role for reflection in music learning. Unpublished Thesis Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
  • Lebler, D. (2007b). Student-as-master? Reflections on a learning innovation in popular music pedagogy. International Journal of Music Education, 25(3), 205–221.
  • Burt, R., Lancaster, H., Lebler, D., Carey, G., & Hitchcock, M. (2007, June 29–July 1). Shaping the tertiary music curriculum: what can we learn from different contexts? Paper presented at the Music in Australian Tertiary Institutions: Issues for the 21st Century Conference, Brisbane.
  • McWilliam, E., Lebler, D., & Taylor, P. G. (2007, June 17–21). From passive consumers to active prod-users: students as co-teachers in a popular music program.  Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Thinking, Norrköping, Sweden.
  • Lebler, D. (2006a, July 10-14, proceedings published 2007). 3D assessment: looking through a learning lens. Paper presented at the New models for educating professional musicians in the twenty-first century: proceedings of the 16th International Seminar of the  Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (CEPROM), Hanoi National Conservatory of Music.
  • Lebler, D. (2006b, 16–18 February). None-to-one Teaching: a role for reflection in music learning and performance. Paper presented at the Reflective Conservatoire: apprentices and sorcerers conference, London.
  • Lebler, D. (2006c). Student-as-master? Reflections on a learning innovation in popular music pedagogy. Paper presented at the ISME world conference, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Lebler, D. (2006d). The masterless studio: an autonomous education community. Journal of Learning Design, 1(3), 41–50.
  • McWilliam, E., Carey, G., Draper, P., & Lebler, D. (2006). Learning and Unlearning: New Challenges for Teaching in Conservatoires. The Australian Journal of Music Education(1), 25–31.
  • Lebler, D. (2005). Learning and Assessment through Recording. In E. Mackinlay, D. Collins & S. Owens (Eds.), Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Lebler, D. (2004a, Proceedings published 2005). "Get Smarter" Music: Making knowledge from know-how. Paper presented at the Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, Brisbane.
  • Lebler, D. (2004b). Learning and Assessment in Popular Music: An Account of the Peer Learning and Assessment Principles adopted in the Bachelor of Popular Music Program, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Paper presented at the 26th International Society for Music Education World Conference 2004, Tenerife, Spain.
  • Lebler, D. (2003a). Learning and assessment in Popular Music: An account of the peer learning and assessment principles adopted in the Bachelor of Popular Music Program, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.  Paper presented at the Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, Brisbane.
  • Lebler, D. (2003b). Learning and Assessment through Recording. Paper presented at the Musicological Society of Australia National Workshop, University of Queensland.
  • Lebler, D. (2003c). Learning through recording. Queensland Journal of Music Education, 10(1), 36-45.

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