Community Music Practice with Adults

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don D. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Iowa City ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
Directed Learning

This chapter examines three approaches to teaching and learning that resonate with community music principles and that can help inform the theoretical bases for community music practice, because there are similarities between the facilitating behaviours of community musicians and the teaching behaviours of educators. Specifically, this chapter portrays a continuum of viewpoints about guiding others—pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy—and illustrates how aspects of each approach can be applied to community music practice. These approaches range from authoritarian ideas that are teacher-centred and learner-dependent to more autonomous ideas that embrace learner-centred and self-directed learning. The New Horizons Band of Iowa City, Iowa, in the United States, is presented as an illustration.

The Single Most Popular Theory

2014 ◽  
pp. 613-624
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang ◽  
Patricia Cranton
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
American Students ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Catch Up

Although Westerners have used over 200 terms to describe Self-Directed Learning (SDL), few Western scholars realize that educators in Confucius Heritage Cultures (CHC) have successfully promoted and implemented SDL. In those cultures, self-directed learning is considered the single most popular theory in teaching and learning. For decades, American educators have argued that American students do not compare with students from other industrialized countries. This chapter proposes that for learners in the Western cultures, especially in the United States to catch up with learners in other industrialized nations including newly emerged China and India, SDL must be promoted and implemented at all levels of education, not only within adult education. Self-directed learning is the single most popular model that helps learners master skills for the sake of competency development. The goal in learning is to achieve the changed status on the part of learners or “perspective transformation.” Unless students are learning in a self-directed manner, it may be difficult to foster transformative learning; SDL and transformative learning are intertwined.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH AS SECOND AND ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Rustamovna Sabirova ◽  
Regina Rafael’yevna Khanipova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Innovative Approaches ◽  
Learning English

and English as a second language. In our research, we analyze the works by C. Brown, B. B. Kachru, A. Matsuda, J. Peterson, and others. Methodology: In our research, the following methods were used: historical and theoretical analysis of the materials of the American pedagogical and socio-political press; statistical bulletins on the quantity of multilingual school-aged children, statistical bulletins on the quantity and quality of educational programs for training teachers of English as a foreign language in the United States; analysis and synthesis of resources used. Results: The authors hold the idea of the variety of English’s and consider English as an international language. The effectiveness of education depends on the way teachers are trained. In this article, the authors analyze English as a second, English as a foreign language teacher training programs, identify similar and distinctive features of the contents, and demonstrate ways to modernize the system of training teachers of English in the United States. Applications of this study: This research can be used for the universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the model of the Innovative approaches to teaching and learning English as Second and English as Foreign Language in Multilingual Education is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

Promoting and Implementing Self-Directed Learning (SDL)

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang ◽  
Patricia Cranton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Perspective Transformation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
China And India ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Catch Up

Although Westerners have used over 200 terms to describe self-directed learning (SDL), it is educators in Confucius heritage cultures (CHC) that have successfully promoted and implemented SDL. This article argues that for learners in the Western cultures, especially in the United States to catch up with learners in other industrialized nations including newly emerged China and India, SDL must be promoted and implemented at all levels of education, not only within adult education. Amongst theories/models, SDL is the single most popular model that helps learners master skills for the sake of competency development. The goal in learning is to achieve the changed status on the part of learners or “perspective transformation.” Without implementing SDL, it may be hard to implement the theory of transformative learning. SDL and transformative learning are intertwined.

The Single Most Popular Theory

2014 ◽  
pp. 182-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang ◽  
Patricia Cranton
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
American Students ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Catch Up

Although Westerners have used over 200 terms to describe Self-Directed Learning (SDL), few Western scholars realize that educators in Confucius Heritage Cultures (CHC) have successfully promoted and implemented SDL. In those cultures, self-directed learning is considered the single most popular theory in teaching and learning. For decades, American educators have argued that American students do not compare with students from other industrialized countries. This chapter proposes that for learners in the Western cultures, especially in the United States to catch up with learners in other industrialized nations including newly emerged China and India, SDL must be promoted and implemented at all levels of education, not only within adult education. Self-directed learning is the single most popular model that helps learners master skills for the sake of competency development. The goal in learning is to achieve the changed status on the part of learners or “perspective transformation.” Unless students are learning in a self-directed manner, it may be difficult to foster transformative learning; SDL and transformative learning are intertwined.

scholarly journals Self directed learning of basic musculoskeletal ultrasound among rheumatologists in the United States

2010 ◽  
pp. NA-NA ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Y. Kissin ◽  
Jane Nishio ◽  
Mei Yang ◽  
Marina Backhaus ◽  
Peter V. Balint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Directed Learning

Practical Approaches to Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores the real-life operation of six higher education systems that align with the theoretical models identified in Chapter 2. Three states follow a largely market-based approach: Chile, England, and the United States. Three states follow a largely human rights-based approach: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. The chapter describes each system in terms of how it aligns with the particular model before evaluating the system in relation to the signs and measures of successful higher education systems identified in Chapter 3. This chapter provides conclusions as to the relative likelihood of each approach facilitating the achievement of higher education teaching and learning purposes.

Assessment and Critical Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 306-324
Author(s):  
Frank Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrative Assessment

This chapter aligns the tenets of critical pedagogy with current practices of assessment in the United States. The author posits that critical pedagogy is an appropriate lens through which to view assessment, and argues against the hegemonic practices that support marginalization of students. Grounded in critical theory and based on Marxist ideals, the content supports the notion of teaching and learning as a partnership where the desire to empower and transform the learner, and open possibilities for the learner to view the world and themselves in that world, are primary goals. Political mandates to evaluate teacher performance and student learning are presented and discussed. In addition to the formative and summative assessments that teachers routinely do to students, the author suggests integrative assessment, where students with the teacher reflect together on the learning experience and its outcomes. The chapter includes specific examples from the author’s own teaching that operationalize the ideas presented.

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities of Asynchronicity: Task-Based Approach After COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Līga Beļicka ◽  
◽  
Tatjana Bicjutko
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Asynchronous Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Professional Contexts

The fast transition to fully online studies due to the pandemic made the universities around the world question many of their accepted notions on teaching foreign languages in general and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) methodology in particular. Putting stress on the synchronous remote teaching and learning has proven to yield a reductionist perspective missing asynchronicity, the dimension which makes reconsider the whole educational process. With its shift from the sole focus on learning terminology to training skills in authentic professional contexts, the task-based approach has long excelled in meeting the diverse needs of students. Thus, the research question is how well task-based teaching (TBT) solves the problems raised with asynchronous learning in a university ESP course. The research of available literature on TBT yielded the framework for constructing an extended task applicable in the advanced medical English. The case study with 120 first-year students of medicine organised around an informational interview with health professionals demonstrated easy adaptability of the task to the asynchronous nature of the educational process. Personal observations by the course instructor, summaries of student-conducted interviews, and student written feedback proved the responsiveness of the method to the learners’ needs and the potential of the approach in terms of motivation. The emphasis on self-directed learning, however, threatens the systematicity of the acquired language skills, as a more controlled teaching environment would not allow “skipping” any learning step. Additionally, TBT does not solve the problem of the voluminous teaching load.

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