Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education

ISBN-13: 9780199384754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Michele Kaschub; Janice Smith

Opis

This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century. Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at all levels, the role of contemporary musical practices in teacher education, and the communication challenges that surround institutional change. Models of programs that feature in-school, out-of-school and beyond school contexts, lifespan learning perspectives, active juxtapositions of formal and informal approaches to teaching and learning, student-driven project-based fieldwork, and the purposeful employment of technology and digital media as platforms for authentic music engagement within a contemporary participatory culture are all offered as springboards for innovative practice.

Recenzje

This is a book for change agents by change agents. Kaschub and Smith invite readers to consider the cost of professional inaction, while vividly illustrating new ways to teach and learn music.

O autorze

Michele Kaschub is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Teacher Education and Graduate Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Janice Smith is Associate Professor of Music Education and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at Queens College, City University of New York. Together they are the authors of Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking (2009) and editors of Composing Our Future: Preparing Music Educators to Teach Composition (2013)