Mignon van Vreden

Mignon van Vreden is an associate professor in music education at North-West University’s School of Music. She completed her BMus, BMus Hons and MMus degrees at Stellenbosch University and received her PhD from NWU in 2014, exploring a conceptual framework for integrating music in grade R. Her main instrument is piano, and research interests include music education in childhood, undergraduate music teacher education, and project-based service learning in higher music education.

In 2018 she received a Y2 rating from the National Research Foundation and was awarded an NWU Emerging Teaching Excellence Award the same year. In 2021, she was an awardee of an NWU Faculty Teaching Award and the award for Exceptional Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities. In 2023, she received the prestigious University Teaching Excellence Award (UTEA) at the NWU.

She regularly attends national and international conferences to learn from specialists in the field and share her own research. Her research publications include articles in the British Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, the South African Journal of Childhood Education, Early Child Development and Care, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Vir die Musiekleier. She has also contributed research to books published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), AOSIS, Springer, and Van Schaik.