Dr. Martin Ashley

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  Professor Martin Ashley
  
  Centre Director
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  Professor Martin Ashley joined Edge Hill University as a Reader in September 2007 and was appointed Professor in Education and Head of Research in May 2008 after establishing the Centre for Learner Identity Studies and the Sounding Edge music education project.
  
  He was previously a Reader in Education at UWE Bristol for two years and before that Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) and the Education Studies undergraduate programme where he developed the "3+1" BA with PGCE with a focus on primary performing arts.He developed his interest in boys' identity whilst serving as a primary teacher through an MPhil study that employed attachment theory to examine primary school boys' social disaffection.
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  Martin Ashley still publishes in the field of environmental education and sustainablity but he has researched extensively and published widely on the subject of boys and singing, particularly since the award of an AHRC research leave fellowship to study that topic.He is currently working with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain on a new AHRC funded project to develop a major new resource to educate boys about their voices and stimulate their interest in singing.He has also researched both boys and dance and girls and physics and is interested in all aspects of role identity transgression.
  
  Some Recent Publications
  
  Ashley, M. (2008) Slappers Who Gouge Your Eyes: vocal performance as exemplification of disturbing inertia in gender equality.Gender and Education, in press
  
  Ashley, M. (2008) Boyhood Melancholia and the Vocal Projection of Masculinity.Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2 (1) 26 - 35
  
  Ashley, M. (2008) Here's What You Must Think About Nuclear Power: Grappling with the spiritual ground of children's judgement inside and outside Steiner Waldorf Education.International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 13(1) 65 - 74
  
  Ashley, M. (2006) You Sing Like a Girl?An exploration of boyness through the treble voice.Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning.6 (2) 193 - 205.
  
  Ashley, M. (2006) Finding the Right Kind of Awe and Wonder: the metaphysical potential of religion to ground an environmental ethic.Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 11 88 - 99.
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  Ashley, M. (2008) Rudolph Steiner.
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  Professor Martin Ashley
  
  Centre Director
  
  The Centre for Learner Identity Studies

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  For an informal discussion, please contact Professor Martin Ashley by emailing: ashleym@edgehill.ac.uk or calling 01695 584717 or 07787 354462.

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  This autumn, Edge Hill University's new professors will mark their appointment with a series of free public lectures in their field of expertise.
  
  Join University staff, students and partners at these thought-provoking lectures to recognise and celebrate Edge Hill's academic talent.
  
  On Wednesday 22nd October 2008, Professor Martin Ashley will give a lecture titled 'Quacking Ducks, Singing Boys and a Crisis of Identity'.
  
  Prof. Martin Ashley leads the Centre for Learner Identity Studies at Edge Hill University.His research uses the concept of learners ' identities to explore the problem of why boys don't sing, following a sharp decline in young male recruitment to choirs across the country.His work recently won a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, (AHRC) which funded a collaborative project with the University of York and the National Youth Choir.His work has also informed the Sing Up Britain campaign - a \u00a340m Government drive to increase singing in all British schools.He has published widely on the subject, with current books including Young Masculinity and Vocal Performance and How High Should Boys Sing?Gender, Authenticity and Credibility in the Young Male Voice.
  
  Pre-lecture drinks will be available from 5pm, the lecture begins at 6pm followed by dinner at 7pm.To book your place, email Sharon Buckley on\u00a0buckleys@edgehill.ac.uk.","start date":"2008-10-22","start time":"00:00:00","end date":"2008-10-22","end time":"00:00:00","location":6,"created at":"2008-10-02 15:13:42","updated at":"2008-10-02 15:28:05","building":"","url":"http:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/events\/2008\/1
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  Last autumn, Dr Martin Ashley, professor of education at Edge Hill University, published a study based on interviews with 400 boys aged eight to 14, in which the majority confessed they were afraid to continue singing into secondary school because of concerns about seeming effeminate.
  
  Coining the term "melancholic boys" to describe those silenced by the fear of "homophobic bullying", Ashley also criticised TV talent show The X Factor for fostering a climate in which aspiring singers were subjected to public humiliation.In a separate study, he found that many schoolboys associated the term "boys" with adult boy bands like Westlife, and were worried their own voices sounded girlish.
  
  So what can be done to dispel these fears?Ashley identifies two influences capable of transforming boys' attitudes: enthusiastic teaching, and suitable male role models.But far from advocating schools put up posters of teen pop stars or cherubic chart-toppers The Choir Boys, he says for most schoolboys the best examples are other boys like them.
  
  "If you want 13-year-olds to sing they've got to see 16-year-olds singing," he says."One idea is using 'singing leaders' , secondary school pupils who visit primary schools to demonstrate the benefits of singing."
  
  He cites the good practice of the government-backed Choir Schools Scholarship Scheme, set up in 1991 to provide financial support for children from poorer households to attend one of Britain's 36 independent choir schools, which sends choristers into primary schools on recruiting missions.Similarly, specialist performing arts schools are increasingly undertaking singing outreach work with feeder primaries.
  
  Dr Ashley's conviction that peer pressure can be countered by peer example and leadership is shared by Gareth Malone, conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra St Luke's Youth Choir.Malone is best known for BBC2's The Choir: Boys Don't Sing , in which he was seen begging, cajoling, and ultimately inspiring 90 pupils from an all-boy Leicester comprehensive with varying vocal abilities to perform at the 2007 Music for Youth Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
  
  "Having been to a boys' school myself, I understood the problems there, but actually when boys are all together there isn't the awkwardness of being around girls, which is an issue in mixed schools," he says.
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  Meanwhile, Ashley is collaborating with the National Youth Choir on a new £180,000 project to challenge hardened resistance to choral singing, which he blames on a perception that songs typically sung in schools are "posh" or "religious".

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  Professor Martin Ashley
  
  Musical youth: How can we get boys singing? Research carried out by Prof. Martin Ashley, Reader in Education, which looks at why boys stop singing at a certain age features in the lead story in the Education section of todays Independent.

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  Music in Schools by Professor Martin Ashley, discussing the National Singing Programme, exciting opportunities for Professional Development in singing leadership and a new digital archive of children's singing games created by Edge Hill University.

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  Professor Martin Ashley has long been involved in researching the complicated relationship between voice and masculinity for young male singers. His findings are now published in Teaching Singing to Boys and Teenagers: The Young Male Voice and the Problem of Masculinity. It's a weighty academic tome which has received favourable reviews.

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  Professor Martin Ashley gives a public lecture entitled 'Quacking Ducks, Singing Boys and a Crisis of Identity'.

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  Prof. Martin Ashley, founder of CLIS said: "Factors such as gender, religion, spirituality, place, environment and social class all impact enormously on how individuals learn.
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  About Martin Ashley
  
  Martin Ashley is Head of Research in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University where he directs the Centre for Learner Identity Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from UWE Bristol.

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