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Sonja Cruywagen teaches undergraduate courses at the interface of Music Education and Musicology (Popular music) at the University of Pretoria South Africa.
She completed her BA (Ed) Mus degree, BMus (Hons) and MMus (Music education) (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria. She continued her postgraduate studies at North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) and completed her Ph.D. in Music in 2015. Her research interests lie in the fields of hybrid teaching and learning (blended learning) in music, learning, and teaching from a student-centred perspective, constructing teaching strategies for musical understanding and learning through a holistic education approach that develops the student into a well-rounded person. She also investigates the demands for teaching music in the 21st century in South Africa to prepare preservice music teachers for their future careers.
Cruywagen has delivered research papers at ISME 2014 (Porto Alegre, Brazil), ISME 2016 (Glasgow, Scotland), APPC 2018 (Potchefstroom, South Africa) and ISME 2018 (Baku, Azerbaijan), SASRIM 2019 (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Unsettling Paradigms: The Decolonial Turn and the Humanities Curriculum 2019 (Pretoria, South Africa) and ISME 2020 (Online: 28th ISME Seminar on Research in Music Education).
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UNIQUE GRANT NO: 93160