Constructivism in Music Education Technology : Creating an Environment for Choral Composition in the Upper Elementary School Grades

ISBN-13: 9783639158427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str.

David Bower

Opis

This book examines the inner transformation of theteacher throughout a sixteen-week composition project usingcomputer technology with fourth and fifth-grade musicstudents. Approached from a phenomenological perspective, this researchengages constructivist philosophy through an action researchmethod aimed at examining the critically reflective music educator.The main open questions this research addressessurround how the integration of music education computer softwareapplications like Morton Subotnick s Making Music, Creating Music,Music Ace I and Music Ace II can be used in the creation of teachingenvironments designed to develop critically reflective musicmakers who engage synthesis, evaluation and critical reflection intheir cognitive processes. This research explores how theimplementation of such representative computer applications can assist inthe development of teaching strategies designed to lead students tocompose a text-based choral composition, an essential element of ageneral/choral curriculum.

O autorze

David Bower earned his PhD from New York University in 2008. He
presents regularly
at academic conferences, including the International Society for
Music Education, and
has published articles in such venues as Visions of Research in
Music
Education. He serves as Director of Music and Organist at St.
Ann s in Raritan, New
Jersey.