Beth Bolton, PhD is Chair of the Music Education and Therapy Department in the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University.  Dr. Bolton coordinates student teaching experiences and the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs.  She is the curriculum director of Early Childhood Music Foundations at Temple Music Prep and serves on numerous university and college committees. As a senior member of the music education faculty, Dr. Bolton teaches (on rotation with other faculty members) the senior undergraduate student teaching seminar, graduate courses in music learning theory and measurement, and guides graduate student research.  She has supervised numerous student teachers, has advised ten completed PhD dissertations, one master’s thesis, and 3 masters final projects, and has served on numerous dissertation and final project advisory committees. Her teaching focus is music learning theory, early childhood music development, measurement, and research. Dr. Bolton is a senior author of Jump Right In:  The Music Curriculum (GIA)—a music series for elementary general music teachers, and is a co-author of Music Play (GIA)—a teacher guidebook for early childhood music which has been translated and published in Lithuania, Korea, and China.  She is a composer, having written 250 original songs for teachers, children and parents.  The songs are compiled in two books:  Childsong Books 1 and 2 (Bestbael Music).  Recordings of Dr. Bolton’s original songs may be found in the CD recordings sets for Jump Right In:  The Music Curriculum (GIA), Music Play (GIA), Pickles and Pie (Bestbael Music), and Rock-A-Bye Blues  (Julie Wylie Music, NZ).  Her songs and teaching ideas may also be found in The Early Childhood Experimental Song and Chant Book (GIA),  Musicianship (Bestbael Music), and Autumnsong (Bestbael Music). Dr. Bolton is an internationally recognized lecturer and researcher.  She has served as a featured presenter at conferences throughout the United States, and in Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania, and Italy.  During 2003-2004 she was keynote speaker at the 2nd annual Lithuanian International Early Childhood Music Conference in Paneveczys, Lithuania, and keynote presenter in the Italian International Early Childhood Music Course, sponsored by the Orff-Schulwerk Italiano.  Dr. Bolton’s international research with infants and mothers encompasses teachers, children, and parents in Lithuania, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, and Australia.  During fall 2004, she traveled to Italy for lecture series in Rome and Fiesole and a research conference presentation in Padova; and to Brazil for a lecture series at the Universidade Federal Do Parana, in Curitiba.  Dr. Bolton was keynote presenter at two international venues during the spring and summer of 2004.  She was keynote speaker at the 2nd annual Lithuanian International Early Childhood Music Conference in Paneveczys, Lithuania in April and was keynote presenter in research and learning theory at the 2nd annual Italian International Early Childhood Music Course in Assisi, Italy in July.

Contact:

Dr. Beth Bolton, Chair

Dept. of Music Education and Therapy

012-00 Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone: 215-204-8310

Fax: 215-204-1982

Email: bbolton@temple.edu