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Shelly Cooper

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Shelly Cooper

Shelly Cooper

  • Associate Professor
  • Area Coordinator, Music Education

email:
sccooper@unomaha.edu
office:
  • SPAC 211
office phone:
402.554.4897
fax:
402.554.2252
area of focus:
  • Graduate Certificate in Kodály

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Biography

Dr. Shelly Cooper has been an active music educator for more than 40 years. As a researcher and general music specialist, she has presented at numerous local, state, and national music and general education conferences and in-service workshops.

Cooper serves on the review board for the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and Active and Integrative Music Education. She also served as editor for General Music Today. Primary research interests include music acquisition in children, children as composers, and historical aspects of music education. She has articles published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, The Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, General Music Today, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music II, The Mountain Lake Reader, and UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education. She has choral arrangements published with Hal Leonard and Colla Voce Music. Cooper was a contributing author for the Silver Burdett music textbook series (2005) and Interactive Music Powered by Silver Burdett with Alfred. [Text series, Grades K-8]. OLE: Online Learning ExchangeTM Pearson (2012). Cooper co-authored the textbook Becoming a Music Teacher: From Student to Practitioner with Oxford.

As a faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, she teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses, serves as the music education area coordinator, and supervises the Graduate Certificate in Kodály program. She has taught Kodály certification courses at Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Education

BA in Music Education, Graceland College (Lamoni, IA)

MM in Music Education, Arizona State University (Tempe)

DMA in Music Education, Arizona State University (Tempe)

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