Music Teaching and Learning
Abril, C. R. (2006). Music that Represents Culture: Selecting Music With Integrity. Music Educators Journal, 93(1), 38-45.
In this reading, Abril discusses the importance of cultural validity and bias in the contemporary music education classroom environment. Ensuring that a piece of music has a high cultural validity and a low bias when dealing with music of other cultures is essential to working with these types of music.
Harwood, E., & Marsh, K. (2012). Children’s ways of learning inside and outside the classroom. The Oxford handbook of music education, 1, 322-340.
Harwood and Marsh discuss the importance of informal and participatory music making, especially in the lives of children. They also discuss how these practices are culturally relevant.
Sawyer, M. C. (2020). At Close Range 8.1 Mary Catherine: Widening the Net: Conceptualizing Music from a World Music Perspective In Campbell, M.R., Thompson, L. K., & Barrett, J.R. (2020) Constructing a personal orientation to music teaching: Inquiry, growth, and agency (pp 214-220).. Routledge.
Mayr Sawyer discusses the importance of utilizing a framework when teaching world music. This framework is designed to help teachers take a culturally centered perspective about music in music teaching and to focus away from practice-centered instruction in favor of a human-centered perspective.
Shehan Campbell, P. (2010). Songs in their heads: Music and its meaning in children's lives (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
In this reading, I learned about a third grade student named James and the way he thinks about music. James is an average boy who is surrounded by music of a variety of different contexts and backgrounds, and he has come to learn to distinguish between these contexts from one another. James also has a keen understanding of group work and its relation to music ensembles. Many of the things James has come to learn are things I wish for students to develop as they grow as musicians and as members of a functioning society.
Tobias, E. S. (2013). Toward convergence: Adapting music education to contemporary society and participatory culture. Music Educators Journal, 99(4), 29–36.
Tobias delves into the importance of participatory music in the classroom and specifically how people engage with this music.
Principles of Music Education
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