C. Victor Fung

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Victor Fung is Professor of Music Education and Director of Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. He teaches graduate courses, such as social psychology of music, music in higher education, measurement and evaluation in music, and statistics for music educators, and the undergraduate course in global music pedagogy. His research focuses on global, social, philosophical, and psychological aspects of music education. His current projects are in the areas of music and aging, global music pedagogy, and Asian philosophies in music education. He is author of A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms (2018), co-author of Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (2016, Chinese translation in 2021) and Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life (2023), and co-editor of Meanings of Music Participation: Scenarios from the United States (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies in Music Education (forthcoming). He also has published articles in numerous refereed journals, served as editor for three, and reviewed for fifteen other professional journals. He has given over a hundred presentations at professional conferences and offered open lectures and seminars at over thirty higher education institutions across five continents. He was a featured keynote presenter at meetings in China, Japan, and Mexico. He served as Board Member for the International Society for Music Education, the College Music Society, and Florida Music Education Association. He was a Fulbright Researcher in Japan (2018). In 2023, he collaborated with two musician-producers to create an extended-play album, Fung Flow, in which each of the two tracks received a Bronze Medal from the Global Music Awards in the categories of "concept" and "creativity/originality."

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