Jason Goopy

Background

About Jason Goopy

Dr Jason Goopy is a Senior Lecturer in Music Education at Edith Cowan University and a Fulbright Scholar. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon two decades of teaching music in studio, school, tertiary, and community settings, and is nationally recognised for creating flourishing music learning programs.Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using creative arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how intentional music engagement and learning enhance young people’s wellbeing and how their educators can be supported. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award, and his monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published open access by Routledge. As a 2025-26 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, Jason investigated how learning music in New York City supports the music-wellbeing literacy of young people, the wellbeing strategies used by their teacher-facilitators, and enablers and barriers for flourishing experienced by program leaders.Jason has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to national and international service leadership and has been recognised with a Fellowship of the Australian Society for Music Education (FASME). He is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Society for Music Education and Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the national initiatives, Music Education: Right from the Start and Music in Me. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the Australian Journal of Music Education.