Visiting Researcher & Curriculum Scholar - Pauline Sameshima

Pauline Sameshima's research and art-making center on looking at both the official and the hidden curriculum. She is interested in learning system designs, technology integration, collaborative and creative scholarship, eco-responsive pedagogies, and alternative forms of knowledge production and acknowledgment.

Pauline teaches math methods for elementary teachers, arts integration, and curriculum theory. She is an exhibiting multi-media artist, lyricist, and designer. Her artwork has been included in three editions of Night of Artists Biographies and Works, a Canadian publication archived at the National Gallery of Canada. She combines her professional interests with her experience teaching elementary public school for 17 years with five years in administration.

Recent accomplishments

• Sameshima, P., Vandermause, R., & Chalmers, S (with Gabriel). (in press). Climbing the ladder with Gabriel: Poetic inquiry with a methamphetamine addict in recovery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.


• Prendergast, M., Leggo, C., & Sameshima, P. (Eds.). (in press). Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.


• Sameshima, P. (2007).Seeing Red—a pedagogy of parallax. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. REVIEWS


• Sameshima, P. (2008). Letters to a new teacher: A curriculum of embodied aesthetic awareness. Teacher Education Quarterly, 35(2), 29-44.


• Sameshima, P. (2008). AutoethnoGRAPHIC relationality through paradox, parallax, and metaphor. In S. Springgay, R. L. Irwin, C. Leggo & P. Gouzouasis (Eds.), Being with a/r/tography (pp. 45-56). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.


• Sameshima, P. (2008). Pauline Sameshima’s story, “Seeing Red” (with Patrick Slattery, Howard Gardner, Elliot Eisner, Rebecca Carmi and Gregory Cajete). In Four Arrows aka Don Trent Jacobs (Ed.), The authentic dissertation: Alternative ways of knowing, research and representation (pp. 51-60). London: Routledge. 


• Section Chair:  AERA Division B: Curriculum Studies, Interpretive/Qualitative Studies in Curriculum


• Archived featured artist on the AERA Arts-Based Educational Research Site
  

Visiting Computer Musician & Researcher - Andrew Brown

Andrew R. Brown in the Research Manager for the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), teaches music and sound at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and coordinates the Computational Arts Research Group at QUT. His expertise is in technologies that support creativity and learning, computational music and art, and the philosophy of technology. His current research focuses on the aesthetics of computational processes and adaptive music for interactive entertainment. He is an active computer musician, computational artist, and a builder of software tools that support creativity.

Here at UMass Lowell, we are using his book Computers in Music Education as a text for Technology in Music Education.

Visiting Music Software Developer - Joe Berkovitz

Joe has been immersed in the software world for 30 years, and is also an active composer and pianist. Most recently VP of Engineering at the innovative e-commerce company Allurent, Joe was also Chief Architect at startup Ruckus Networks, and as a Senior Architect at ATG he led the development of a number of pioneering software products. Joe is a frequent and sought-after speaker at conferences on the Adobe Flash and Flex platforms and has contributed a substantial number of open-source projects to the Flex development community, ranging from pattern-based application frameworks to code coverage tools. Back in the misty dawn of time, he studied at New England Conservatory of Music.

Noteflight, LLC is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is dedicated to reinventing the way that people create, share and use written music. Our product doesn't merely improve on other music notation software: it lets written music take advantage of the full power of the web as we know it today. Noteflight is a powerful full-featured application to edit, display and play back music notation in a standard web browser, integrated in an online library of musical scores that anyone can publish, link to, or embed.