Neryl coordinates Music within pre-service and post-graduate arts education programs. Her academic work focuses on music and arts education in primary, secondary, tertiary and community education.

Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne in 2005, she was a senior lecturer and Director of the Professional Experience Unit in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle.

Neryl has been actively involved in the development of the music curriculum in NSW and nationally. She had a long involvement with music at the Higher School Certificate level as chair of the Music Examination Committee and Chief Examiner of Music, 1997 - 2004.

Before taking up a full-time academic position after part-time positions with the University of NSW and the University of Sydney, Neryl spent 15 years with the NSW Department of Education and Taining as a high school teacher and curriculum consultant for Music K-12.

Neryl has played an active role in music education curriculum and policy development in Australia and has held leadership positions in professional associations at state, national and international levels. She was the national president of the Australian Society for Music Education (2003-2005) and is currently a member of the executive of the International Society of Music Education's Commission for Music in Cultural, Educational and Mass Media Policies.

2006: Artistic Review Panel for Musical Viva; Music Advisory Board, Box Hill TAFE
2005: Judging Panel for Play for Life/Classic FM FLAME Awards
2004-2006: The Centre for the Study of Research Training and Impact (SORTI), University of Newcastle
2004-2005:Member of Steering Committee for National Review of School Music Education
2004: National Panel for the 2004 APRA-Australian Music Centre Classical Music Awards
2002–2004:President, Newcastle Institute for Educational Research
2001–2005:Advisory Board of the Australian International Conservatorium of Music, Sydney.
1996-2006:Editorial board of the Australian Journal of Music Education

Neryl holds a BA, DipEd, MEd(with merit) and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Both her MEd and PhD focussed on teacher education in music. Her Masters research examined the preparation of secondary music teachers in four universities in NSW. Her doctoral research focussd on the preparation of the preservice, non-specialist primary teacher for teaching music in the classroom with a particular emphasis on motivation, self efficacy, self concept and the development of confidence, at the University of Arizona and the University of Newcastle. Neryl was the first music educator to be awarded a Graduate Fellowship by the University of Arizona to further her doctoral research.

Neryl coordinates the music education subjects within the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs in the Faculty of Education. She supervises Music Research Projects in the BTeach courses and teaches arts education course work subjects within the M Ed program: Assessment in the Arts, Advanced Project Studies in the Arts and Arts and Cognition. She currently supervises a number of MEd thesis and doctoral students.

Selected Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Jeanneret, N. (2003). I’m ready for my close-up Mr DeMille. In D. Forrest (Ed). The Doctoral Journey in Music Education: Reflections on Doctoral Studies by Australian Music Educators. Melbourne: Common Ground Publishing.
Jeanneret, N. (1996). Australian Acappella. Lorn: Fener Publications for the Australian Music Centre

Reviews

Jeanneret, N. (2004) review of ed. Sam Leong, Musicianship in the 21st Century: Issues, themes and Possibilities, Sydney:Australian Music Centre, 2003. In Sounds Australian 63, 52 – 54
Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape, Caitlin Rowley, (Editor) Australian Journal of Music Education, 1998.
Music in Schools and Teacher Education: A Global Perspective, Australian Journal of Music Education,1997.
Australian Journal of Music Education, 1995


Refereed articles in national or international journals.

Watson, A., Forrest, D., & Jeanneret, N. (in press). The development of professional standards for music educators: An Australian perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Arts Education.
Cantwell, R. & Jeanneret, N. (2004) Developing a framework for the assessment of musical learning: Resolving the dilemma of the “parts” and the “whole”. Research Studies in Music Education, 22, 2-13.
Jeanneret, N. & Forrest, D. (2003). Globalisation versus localisation: Trends in Australian Art music and music education.Musikkikasvatus. Finnish Journal of Music Education, 7:1, 9 – 21.
Jeanneret, N. & Cantwell, R. (2002). Self-efficacy issues in learning to teach composition: A case study of instruction. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology. 2, 32-41. Online journal available at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/ajedp/
Jeanneret, N. (2000). Exposure and involvement = confidence to compose. Musicworks, 5:1, 16 - 19,
Jeanneret, N. (1999) Music assessment: What happens in the school sector? Sounds Australian 53
Jeanneret, N. (1997). Developing confidence to teach music: A model for preservice teaching, Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, 133, 37-44.
Jeanneret, N., (1996). Competencies for generalist teachers: What do they need to teach music? Australian Journal of Music Education 1, 1-10.
Jeanneret, N. (1993). The preparation of secondary music teachers in New South Wales: Is it out of step? British Journal of Music Education, 10, 47 - 55.

Refereed conference proceedings

McPherson, J., Jeanneret, N. & Forrest, D. (2005). Australian diversity: Challenging contexts and communities for music education. APSMER 05 Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, The University of Washington, Seattle. [presentation and publication]
Jeanneret, N. & Forrest, D. (2005). The arts and administrators in school education. National Education and the Arts Symposium 2005 Backing our Creativity: Education and the Arts, Research, Policy and Practice. Australia Council for the Arts, The University of Melbourne, September 2005 [accepted for presentation and publication]
McPherson, J., & Jeanneret, N. (2005). Connections and curriculum development: Foundations of the New South Wales K – 12 Music Curriculum. In D. Forrest (Ed.) A Celebration of Voices. Melbourne: Australian Society for Music Education.
Irvine, I.J., N. Jeanneret, & Cantwell, R. (2005). A methodology for representing the regulation of the composing process. In D. Forrest (Ed.) A Celebration of Voices. Melbourne: Australian Society for Music Education.
Jeanneret, N., Watson, A. & Forrest, D. (2005). National teaching standards for music: Process and issues to first draft. In D. Forrest (Ed.) A Celebration of Voices. Melbourne: Australian Society for Music Education.
Jeanneret, N., Forrest, D. & Monfries, M. (2005). Role ambiguity: Its impact on the effectiveness of organisational change. In D. Forrest (Ed.) A Celebration of Voices. Melbourne: Australian Society for Music Education.
Watson, A., Forrest, D. & Jeanneret, N. (2004). Pathways to po