Selected Publications (Since September 1994)
Refereed Papers
Senyshyn, Y. “Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Educational Administration: Philosophical Biography and Thought” (under review).
Senyshyn, Y. “Understanding and Working with Performance Anxiety in Education” (under review).
Senyshyn, Y. “Understanding the Good in Music” (under review).
Senyshyn, Y. “ ‘Once Upon a time in the West’: Opera and Soundscape” (in preparation).
Senyshyn, Y. “Respecting Students, Acquiring Humility and Ignoring the Curriculum” (in preparation).
Senyshyn, Y. “The Hegelian Exhaustiblity of Art and Danto’s End of Philosophy: Existential Thought and Polymetric Music in Di Cicco’s Poetry” (Volume 18 (2004/2005) of Italian Canadiana (University of Toronto) 37-48.
Senyshyn, Y. “Rise of Authoritarianism in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise in British Universities”. (Vol. 39, #3 Winter, December 2005 of the Journal of Educational Thought, Pages 229 - 244).
Senyshyn, Y. “Old Texts and Opera—Inciting Students to Read ”. (Educational Leadership, April 2005, Volume 62, No. 7, Pages 74 to 77: "The Adolescent Learner").
Senyshyn, Y. “Musical Aphorisms and Common Aesthetic Quandaries”. Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Pages 4 to 21, Fall, 2003.
Senyshyn, Y. & Vezina, D. "Wittgenstein, Collingwood and the Aesthetic and Ethical Conundrum of the Opera". Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Pages 27 to 35, Spring, 2002.
Senyshyn, Y. & O'Neill, S. "Subjective Experience of Anxiety and Musical Performance: A Relational Perspective". Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 9, No. 1: 42-53, Spring, 2001.
Senyshyn, Y. "A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Society and the Status of the Individual as a Performing Musician". Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 80-93, Fall, 1999.
Senyshyn, Y. “The Passionate Teacher and the Curriculum Police: Perspectives on Modes of Subjectivity and the Curriculum as Art”. Journal of Educational Thought, 153-173, August, 1999, Vol. 33, #2.
Senyshyn, Y. “Perspectives on Performance and Anxiety and their Implications for Creative Teaching.” The Canadian Journal of Education, Volume 24, Number 1, Pages 30 to 41, Winter 1999.
Senyshyn, Y. “Computational Thinking and Cognitive Hangovers” The International Society for the Study of Music Education: Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 135-138, Summer, 1999, No. 141.
Senyshyn, Y. “Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics”. Musica-Realta, N° 55, marzo 1998..
Senyshyn, Y. “Kierkegaardian Implications of Punishment, Guilt and Forgiveness for Education”. Interchange, Vol. 29/4, 425-437, 1998.
Senyshyn, Y. "Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Stage of Existence and its Relation to Live Musical Performance." Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 50-63, 1996.
Senyshyn, Y. "‘The Crisis’: The Practical Realization of Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Philosophy". Interchange, Vol. 26/3, 257-264, 1995.
Senyshyn, Y. "Kierkegaard, Musical Performance and the Relation and Differentiation of the Sexes". Interchange, Vol. 26/2, 105-126, 1995.
Refereed Book Chapters
Senyshyn, Y. “Subjectivity Revisited: Passion as Truth in Music Education”. In Eunshik Choi and Myng-sook Auh (Eds.), "Searching for a New Paradigm of Music Education Research". Editors: The Korean Music Education Society, Hawoo Publishers. 1998.
Senyshyn, Y. “Popular Music and the Intolerant Classroom” in Questioning the Music Education Paradigm Published by the Canadian Music Educators' Association as Volume 2 of The Biennial Series, Research to Practice, Lee R. Bartel, Series Editor. Toronto: 2004, Pages 110-120.
Senyshyn, Y. “Philosophy and Music in the Art of a Poet” (revised reprint of “The Hegelian Exhaustiblity of Art and Danto’s End of Philosophy: Existential Thought and Polymetric Music in Di Cicco’s Poetry” in press.
Published Conference Papers (Refereed)
Senyshyn, Y. “Anxiety and Memory in Live Musical Performance” published in the Proceedings of the APSCOM 2 (The Second International Conference of Asia Pacific Society for The Cognitive Science of Music) held in Seoul, Korea from August 4 - 6, 2005, pages 190-194, ISBN 89-5708-090-2.
Senyshyn, Y. “The Philosophy and Psychology of Performance Anxiety and its Subjective, Relational, and Discursive Potentiality” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, 2002, 117-120. C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, J. Renwick (Eds.). Adelaide: Causal Productions. ISBN 1 876346 39 6
Senyshyn, Y. “Wittgenstein, Music and Colour: Implications of Scientism and Inwardness”. Toward Scientific Literacy: The History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching" Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Canada, June 21-24, 1997. Edited by Linda Lentz and Ian Winchester. Faculty of Education, University of Calgary Publications, 671-681 (CD of Conference Proceedings: 1999).
Books
Senyshyn, Y. Upside Down and Inside Out: a Fresh Look at Teachers and Teaching in Education (In preparation)
Senyshyn, Y. A Tractatus of Music (In preparation).
Senyshyn, Y. The Artist in Crisis (Under review)
Senyshyn, Y. Essential Issues in Music Performance (In preparation).
Essay Reviews
Senyshyn, Y. "ESSAY REVIEW: CREATIVITY IN SPORT: Originality, Transformation, Indeterminacy, and New Concepts in the Arts" by author, John Eisenberg, with contributions from Malcom Levin, Michael Eben, Herbert Eisenberg, Michael Katz, Stan Adamson, David Cheifetz, Mark Hanna, Bob Moffat, The Triumph of Imagination: Creativity in Sport, (Toronto: Chestnut Publishing Group, 2004), 174 pp., ISBN 1-894601-07-6 (in press with the Journal of Educational Thought).
Senyshyn, Y. "A Critical Notice Of Remembering Horowitz: 125 Pianists Recall a Legend" compiled and edited by David Dubal, New York: Schirmer Books, 1993, xxix + 383 pages "Horowitz and the Enigma of Art". Interchange, Vol. 27/1, 79-84, 1996.
Senyshyn, Y. “A Critical Notice of The Limits of Reason: Indeterminacy in Law, Education, and Morality” by John A. Eisenberg, Toronto: OISE Press, 1992, vii + 184 pages “Reason as Crapshoot”. Interchange, Vol. 24/3, 317-321, 1993.
Articles
Senyshyn, Y. "Methods and Music Education: Entering the Secret Places of the Soul". Educators at Work, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Summer 1995, 6-7.
Compact Discs
"Yaroslav Senyshyn Live at the University of Michigan”, Ann Arbor ® and © 2002, Platon Records & Music Videos.
"Yaroslav Senyshyn Live at the John F. Kennedy Center”, ® and © 2001, Platon Records.
"Yaroslav Senyshyn Plays Schumann, Tschaikovsky and Liszt", ® and © 1999, Platon Records.
"Yaroslav Senyshyn Plays Cochrane and Schubert", Taxi Stand/Donco Records, ® and © 1998.
"Yaroslav Senyshyn “Soundings” Recorded at Taxi Stand, Produced by Richard DuBeau © 2000.
"Yaroslav Senyshyn Live" at a piano recital to commemorate the joining of OISE with the University of Toronto, October 10, 1996.® and © 1997, Platon Records, YSCD-001.
Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Keynote Speaker Invitations and Talks
| April 2006 |
Paper given for the AERA (American Educational Research Association) conference in San Francisco entitled: “Punishment, Forgiveness and Accountability in the Public Interest”. |
| September 2005 |
Gave a Welcoming Address for our New Faculty Orientation Program (Academic Relations, Simon Fraser University) Friday, September 2, 2005.
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| August 2005 |
Gave a paper for a conference entitled “Anxiety and Memory in Live Musical Performance” for APSCOM 2 (the Second International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Science of Music). August 4 - 6, 2005, Seoul, Korea.
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| May 2005 |
Participated in a sympoisum entitled ‘Rewarding University Teaching; A Panel Discussion,” Thursday, May 19th in the 7th Annual Symposium on Innovative Teaching 2005: Reaching New Heights of Learning at Simon Fraser University, Halpern Centre and Maggie Benston Centre, SFU Burnaby. May 18-20. http://www.sfu.ca/symposium2005.
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| May 2005 |
Gave a Welcoming Address for CURAC: “Continuing a Professional Life after Retirement” and the Annual General Meeting and Conference Thursday, May 12.
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| July 2004 |
Gave a paper for a conference on Thursday, July 15 entitled "Teaching Popular Music" for The Arts, Culture and Education Institute at Simon Fraser University, July 12 - 23, 2004.
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| October 2003 |
A respondent for a Music Symposium entitled Music Education: Research, Policy, Practice held at the Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom and chaired by Dr. Janet Mills.
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| Nov. 2002 |
A Keynote Address for Conference and Festscrrift in Honourt of Carol Midgley, Professor of Education, held at the University of Michigan.
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| July 2002 |
ICMPC7 (The Seventh International Conference of Music Psychology In Cognition) to be held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Refereed Paper given and published entitled ‘A Cultural Approach to Music Philosophy and Performance vis-à-vis Sociology of Music, Social Construction, Perception and Preference: The Philosophy and Psychology of Performance Anxiety and its Subjective, Relational, and Discursive Potentiality’. As well, acted as a symposium convenor.
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| Nov. 2000 |
A Keynote Address on the topic of “Anxiety and Music Performance” at Keele University, United Kingdom for the “Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development” in a lecture series entitled: “Music Psychology Research Seminars”.
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| Sept. 2000 |
Taught a graduate course toward a Master of Science degree in Music Psychology from September till December, 2000, entitled “Module 2.2: Elements of Musical Structure” at Keele University, United Kingdom.
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| June 2000 |
Lectures and Seminars the week of June 12-16 on music education and secondary education at The Hong Kong Institute of Education: School of Creative Arts, Sciences, and Technology. My topics were specifically entitled “Negative and Positive Anxiety in Music Education” and “Creativity, Punishment, Flexibility and Individuality in Secondary School Education”.
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| June 2000 |
Refereed Paper given for the Philosophy of Music Education Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom entitled: “Anxiety and Music Performance”.
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| May 2000 |
Paper given for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (London Branch) at the London Institute of Education: “The Merit of Anxiety and the Discursive Mind in Education”. |
| March 2000 |
Taught a graduate course entitled “Musical Development” with Dr Susan O‘Neill, Senior Lecturer, Keele University, from March 6-10, 2000 at the Centro di Investigacao em Psicologia da Musica e Educacao Musical (CIPEM), Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal. My teaching area was specifically entitled “The Role of Creativity in Musical Development: Creativity in the Schools: Underlying Theory and Rationale”.
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| July 1998 |
Refereed Paper given for the Seventeenth International Research Seminar at Johannesburg, South Africa, 11-18 July 1998. Senyshyn, Y. “Computational Thinking and Cognitive Hangovers”.
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| May 1998 |
Refereed Paper given for the Canadian Society for Aesthetics Conference and the Canadian University Music Society, Learneds, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998. Senyshyn, Y. "Rationality’s Greatest Asset and its Implicit Surrender to Subjectivity".
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| August 1997 |
Refereed Paper given for the First Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research (sponsored by The International Society for the Study of Music Education in Seoul, Korea, August 1997). Senyshyn, Y. “Subjectivity Revisited: Passion as Truth in Music Education”. |
| June 1997 |
Refereed Paper given for the Canadian Society of Aesthetics, Learneds, St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 1997. Senyshyn, Y. “Co-authorship of Musical Texts and the Ritualization of Musical Performance”.
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| June 1997 |
Refereed Paper given for the History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching, International Group, Calgary, June, 1997. Senyshyn, Y. “Wittgenstein, Music and Colour: Implications of Scientism and Inwardness”.
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| February 1997 |
Paper given for the Festival of Italian Contemporary Music: A Homage to Italian and Canadian Composers. Senyshyn, Y. “Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics”.
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| September 1994 |
From 1994 till 1998 I had given eight lectures at OISE, University of Toronto at the invitation of Professor John Eisenberg. Ten lectures were given at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Some of the topics for OISE: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche's Influence on Education and Creativity; The Relevance of Subjectivity for Education; Wittgenstein and Scientism; Subjectivity and Objectivity in Education; The Limits of Reason and Cognitive Thinking; Creativity and Kierkegaard; The Artist and Education. Some of the topics for UBC: Kierkegaard and Music Education; Keith Swanwick's Approach to Music Education; Phenomenology and Music Education. |
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