Eleanor Mara Johnston

(York University, Canada)

Eleanor Johnston is a candidate for Ph.D. at York University in the Faculty of Education. Her completed dissertation study focused on a global pop music intervention in the elementary music room to raise questions of belonging and hospitality with students and teachers. She is currently writing her dissertation. Her master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor’s degree in Drama and Music, also from University of Toronto, have seen plenty of use in her decade of experience teaching in public elementary schools. Her research focuses on the ways in which curricular objects foster/prevent feelings of belonging in the classroom and the concert hall, and the tensions and ethical questions embedded therein.