Music Education as Craft

Music Education as Craft
Author: Kari Holdhus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-05-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030677044

This book is a collection of leading international authors in the field of music education taking the concept of 'craft' as a starting point to deconstruct and reconstruct their understanding of the practices and theories of music education. Their insights draw from deep wells of resources located in historical, philosophical, epistemological, musicological and educational traditions that lead to rich and complex insights on the evolving field of music education. In so doing, they generate a constellation of new understandings and illustrations of what crafts can mean in this field. Historically, the idea of craft was typically associated with a skill or experience in knowing how to do or make something, or an activity of some kind that requires specific professional skills. In Old Norse, the concept for craft was kraptr, meaning strength and virtue, while Old English and continental use was associated with power and physical strength, as well as skill. When these definitions of ‘crafts’ are infused into contemporary understandings of the field of music education as a professional field, a whole new set of possible interpretations are unearthed. Such insights are not exhaustive, but rather, point the way in which this professional, diverse, inclusive and ambiguous field might continue to evolve in the 21st century.

Music Education for Changing Times

Music Education for Changing Times
Author: Thomas A. Regelski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9048127009

Based on topics that frame the debate about the future of professional music education, this book explores the issues that music teachers must confront in a rapidly shifting educational landscape. The book aims to challenge thought and change minds. It presents a star cast of internationally prominent thinkers in and beyond music education. These thinkers deliberately challenge many time-worn traditions in music education with regard to musicianship, culture and society, leadership, institutions, interdisciplinarity, research and theory, and curriculum. This is the first book to confront these issues in this way. This unique book has emerged from fifteen years of international dialog by The MayDay Group, an organization of more than 250 music educators from over 20 countries who meet yearly to confront issues in music teaching and learning.

Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education

Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education
Author: Heidi Westerlund
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000400557

This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative to enable the potential of professional musicians in our contemporary societies to be more fully realised, recognising both intense challenges that are currently threatening some traditional music practices, and significant scope for new practices to be imagined in response to deep veins of societal need. Professionalism encompasses the conduct, aims, values, responsibilities and ongoing development of a practising professional in the field. Professional higher music education engages both with providing future professionals with relevant education in particular craft skills, and with nurturing their visions for their work as artists in future societies. The major focus of the book is on performance traditions that have dominated professional higher education, notably western classical music.

Remixing the Classroom

Remixing the Classroom
Author: Randall Everett Allsup
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253021537

In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical "mash-up," Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities, Allsup promotes a vision of education that is open, changing, and adventurous at heart. He contends that the imperative of growth at the core of all teaching and learning relationships is made richer, though less certain, when it is fused with a student's self-initiated quest. In this way, the formal study of music turns from an education in teacher-directed craft and moves into much larger and more complicated fields of exploration. Through vivid stories and evocative prose, Randall Everett Allsup advocates for an open, quest-driven teaching model that has repercussions for music education and the humanities more generally.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education
Author: Mark Montemayor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351704311

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education provides the perspectives and resources to help music educators craft world-inclusive instrumental music programs in their teaching practices. Given that school instrumental music programs—concert bands, symphony orchestras, and related ensembles—have borne musical traditions that broadly reflect Western art music and military bands, instructors are often educated within the European conservatory framework. Yet a culturally diverse and inclusive music pedagogy can enrich, expand, and transform these instrumental music programs to great effect. Drawing from years of experience as practicing music educators and band and orchestra leaders, the authors present a vision characterized by both real-world applicability and a great depth of perspective. Lesson plans, rehearsal strategies, and vignettes from practicing teachers constitute valuable resources. With carefully tuned ears to intellectual currents throughout the broader music education community, World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV provides readers with practical approaches and strategies for creating world-inclusive instrumental music programs.

Honing the Craft

Honing the Craft
Author: Australian Society for Music Education. National Conference
Publisher:
Total Pages: 311
Release: 1995
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781876024000

In selecting 'Honing the Craft' for our theme the aim was: to emphasise the skills required by music educators; to promote collaboration towards the highest musical goals; to stimulate critical reflection of current teaching practices; to encourage sharing of practical ideas; to demonstrate examples of exemplary practice; and to support the implementation of the National Profiles.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education
Author: Mark Montemayor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 135170432X

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education provides the perspectives and resources to help music educators craft world-inclusive instrumental music programs in their teaching practices. Given that school instrumental music programs—concert bands, symphony orchestras, and related ensembles—have borne musical traditions that broadly reflect Western art music and military bands, instructors are often educated within the European conservatory framework. Yet a culturally diverse and inclusive music pedagogy can enrich, expand, and transform these instrumental music programs to great effect. Drawing from years of experience as practicing music educators and band and orchestra leaders, the authors present a vision characterized by both real-world applicability and a great depth of perspective. Lesson plans, rehearsal strategies, and vignettes from practicing teachers constitute valuable resources. With carefully tuned ears to intellectual currents throughout the broader music education community, World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV provides readers with practical approaches and strategies for creating world-inclusive instrumental music programs.

Re-Imagining Curricula in Global Times

Re-Imagining Curricula in Global Times
Author: Jennifer M. Mellizo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 157
Release:
Genre: Curriculum change
ISBN: 3031376196

Through this book, the author examines the role of music education within the larger global education movement. Specifically, the author argues music education has unique potential to foster positive global identity and to promote higher levels of intercultural sensitivity during adolescence. Music educators can use the framework in this book to craft lessons that will help their adolescent students develop positive global identities as they progress towards higher levels of intercultural sensitivity within the context of musical learning experiences. The book also offers a framework that can help practicing and pre-service music educators to engage in the type of cultural and musical self-reflection needed to resist deeply engrained hegemonic tendencies. As such, more students have access to an inclusive, flexible, and meaningful musical education. Within the final two chapters, the author proposes - and provides concrete examples of - a new curricular planning strategy for music educators which synthesizes the information presented in the preceding chapters and provides a concrete vision for (re)imagining music education as global education.

Student workbook Preliminary B

Student workbook Preliminary B
Author: Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781863675048

"The student workbooks provide progressive exercises that drill the theoretical concepts developed through the course of a grade's study in Music craft. These workbooks are accompanied by CDs containing the aural training materials that are integral to Music craft. The corresponding teacher's guides support teachers exploring the new pedagogical methodologies of Music craft by relating directly to the materials and concepts that students encounter in the student workbooks." -- p. 6 Teacher's guide A.

Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School
Author: Chris Philpott
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2001
Genre: School music
ISBN: 0415158338

Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary Schoolis intended to support student-teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced music teachers in their professional development. Topics covered include: the place of music in the curriculum the nature of musical learning planning, managing and assessing musical learning school examinations and music music outside of the curriculum. One of the main premises of the book is that music needs to be taught 'musically', with specific reference to both the nature of music itself and its metaphorical significance. It is important that music itself guides what goes on in the music classroom if we are to motivate our pupils and help them to fulfil their potential as musicians. This book will help student-teachers to develop their subject knowledge, teaching skills, understanding of the wider issues and their ability to reflect on classroom practice.