Naming Moral-Political Discourses in Music Education: A Philosophical Investigation

2021 ◽  
pp. 002242942110199
Author(s):  
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Nurturant Parent ◽  
Main Ideas

Given the contemporary polarized political landscape and the elective nature of much music teaching and learning, it is important that music educators understand how they reinforce or undermine stakeholders’ political beliefs. The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate alignment between Lakoff’s moral-political metaphors and Allsup’s main ideas and to consider the value of certain moral-political discourses for music education. I demonstrate that Allsup favors concepts that align with Lakoff’s liberal nurturant-parent metaphor, while his ideas work in tension with the conservative strict-parent metaphor. When conservative moral discourse goes unacknowledged, discussions about what kind of ethics should inform music education get misrecognized as arguments about whether ethical concerns should inform music education. I also examine the potential implications of practices aligning with music educators’ individual moral-political beliefs, a community’s moral-political preferences, or a balanced approach to the two metaphors. Yet, nurturant-parent values and associated practices often remain unarticulated and peripheral in music teacher education. I propose that music educators might name the role that conservative ethics play within the profession, provide increased attention to practices aligning with the nurturant-parent moral-political metaphor, and experiment with discourse and actions not directly invoking either moral-political metaphor.

Change in Music Teacher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
David J. Elliott ◽  
Marissa Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Pedagogical Content

This chapter offers a philosophical perspective on the central aims and values of music teacher education with a specific focus on the ethical dimensions of music teaching and learning. Drawing on the work of music education scholars, philosophers of mind, and philosophers of education, the chapter builds an argument for the view that music teacher education should be ethically guided and ethically applied in practice. Additionally, it suggests that “pedagogical content” should include dialogical discussions and activities related to the role of ethics in music teacher education because, among many values, the professional work of future music educators involves highly refined ethical sensibilities and opportunities for their own students to learn the nature of and strategies for acting rightly, appropriately, and responsibly in their future circumstances. Indeed, ethically guided music teacher education offers the profession rich opportunities to develop “ethically right” compassion, caring, and generosity toward others.

Music Teacher Education Program Practices: Preparing Teachers to Work With Diverse Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Mara E. Culp ◽  
Karen Salvador
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Diverse Learners ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Education Programs

Music educators must meet the needs of students with diverse characteristics, including but not limited to cultural backgrounds, musical abilities and interests, and physical, behavioral, social, and cognitive functioning. Music education programs may not systematically prepare preservice teachers or potential music teacher educators for this reality. The purpose of this study was to examine how music teacher education programs prepare undergraduate and graduate students to structure inclusive and responsive experiences for diverse learners. We replicated and expanded Salvador’s study by including graduate student preparation, incorporating additional facets of human diversity, and contacting all institutions accredited by National Association of Schools of Music to prepare music educators. According to our respondents, integrated instruction focused on diverse learners was more commonly part of undergraduate coursework than graduate coursework. We used quantitative and qualitative analysis to describe course offerings and content integration.

Building a Broad View of Technology in Music Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Heidi Partti
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Collaborative Skills

In addition to innovative policy schemes, program visions, and curricular changes, the transformation of the school classroom necessitates also the development of teacher education. Inspired by the Core Perspective chapters in this section of the handbook, this chapter discusses issues related to the use of technology in supporting the cultivation of creative and collaborative skills in music teaching, particularly from the viewpoint of music teacher education. The chapter argues that there is a gap between the potential that technology could provide for music teaching and learning processes and the cultivation of this potential in schools. To bridge this gap, a holistic approach to technology and its use in music education is required. According to this approach, technology is viewed as a powerful way to facilitate more possibilities to participate in different musical practices and to use musical imagination.

Music Teacher Education and Students with Autism

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Alice M. Hammel ◽  
Ryan M. Hourigan
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Students With Autism ◽  
Department Of Music

As of the publication of this book, 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with autism. Therefore, it is most likely that music teachers will teach a student who is challenged by Autism Spectrum Disorder. It is well known throughout the music education community that often preservice music educators receive knowledge and skills through coursework outside the school or department of music. This chapter is designed to provide the tools and structure for music teachers to learn through well-crafted fieldwork experiences that include time in class with students on the spectrum.

Music Education and the Invisible Youth

2015 ◽  
pp. 597-613
Author(s):  
Maud Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Incarcerated Youth ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Incarcerated Juveniles ◽  
Education Community ◽  
School Music ◽  
K 12

There is a recent and growing body of research on the activities surrounding music and arts education efforts with incarcerated juveniles. What seems to be missing from this current research are advocacy, educational, and policy efforts from the K–12 school music education community. Who is teaching the music to the youth in these settings? What is being taught and for what purposes? And how might music educators’ understandings of these relatively new programs illuminate the need to extend music teacher education and policy discourse beyond the traditional boundaries of K–12 school institutions? This chapter provides a summary and analysis of the research on music education for incarcerated youth around the globe. It details the practices and pedagogies in youth detention centers with the goal to provide ideas for future actions and practices from the K–12 music education community.

Technology in PerspectiveWho is in Control?

2017 ◽  
pp. 310-316
Author(s):  
Patricia Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning

It is commonly known that the assimilation and use of technology that is vertically mandated, without a critical consideration of final users, presents various risks such as an inadequate and unreflective use of technology. For instance, new technological tools tend to be used only to facilitate aspects of traditional teaching practices, without changing previous pedagogical paradigms. One of the main causes is that many teachers have not acquired the expertise to take full advantage of innovative teaching/learning technologies. For adequate music education provision, music educators must respond distinctively and effectively by considering the sociocultural and educational context. This chapter argues that music teacher education and professional initiatives must be focused on empowering music teachers to critically decide the degree of technological assimilation and distinction in order to meet the standards of quality education.

Striving for Justice with Determination and Hope

2015 ◽  
pp. 657-668
Author(s):  
Janet R. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Imaginative Thinking ◽  
The Times ◽  
Persuasive Arguments

Social justice is an intellectual ideal and an educational movement, as well as a fervent desire held by individuals committed to respecting the worth of persons. This epilogue situates music educators within this broad landscape of theories, perspectives, and practices. For the field to embrace socially just practices as commonplace—answering the call with determination—good work must be initiated on many fronts. Music educators can draw on the clear and persuasive arguments offered here for expanding visions of music teaching and learning, while grappling with multidimensional challenges that attend social justice. This professional transformation will depend upon imaginative thinking and critical awakening, especially in contradistinction to the pervasive neoliberal milieu of the times. Music teacher education holds special promise for developing and strengthening teachers’ commitments to equitable, culturally responsive, and liberatory practices, especially when focused on dispositions that cultivate music teachers’ sense of agency and caring.

The Role of Technology in Music Teacher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 363-376
Author(s):  
Richard J. Dammers
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Specific Technology

Digital technology is a source of continual change in our society. The ongoing miniaturization of devices, as well as increases in computing power, connectivity, and affordability of devices, are providing ever-higher levels of access to digital technology for music educators and their students. This chapter focuses on the work in the field that addresses the opportunities and challenges for music education provided by technology. Specifically, frameworks for viewing technology within pedagogical practice are reviewed, as well as specific technology competencies needed by music educators. Research addressing the state of technology in music education and music teacher education is shared, followed by summary recommendations.

Intergenerational music teaching and learning among preservice music teachers and senior adult musicians

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2097754
Author(s):  
Samuel Tsugawa
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Senior Adult ◽  
Senior Adult Musicians

The purpose of this study was to examine the intergenerational interactions between preservice music teachers and senior adult musicians engaged in music teaching and learning in a New Horizons ensemble within one university’s music teacher preparation program. This intrinsic qualitative case study included written reflections and observational data of 16 current undergraduate music education students and verbatim interview transcripts of 5 current and former students serving as teaching assistants who taught and conducted their university’s New Horizons ensemble. Findings distilled from the data included (a) how younger-aged preservice music teachers responded to generational differences while learning how to interact with senior adult musicians, (b) the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) learned and developed by participants as a result of teaching in a New Horizons ensemble, and (c) the connections made by participants teaching senior adults to their future careers as professional music educators. Future discussion and directions from this study highlight emerging connections of research between adult and community music settings and music teacher education. Implications include (a) how to create best practices so that the missions and objectives of both music teacher education programs and cooperating community adult ensembles support and enhance each other, (b) fostering outcomes that prepare music education majors for experiences in adult music education, and (c) reimagining New Horizons and music teacher education partnerships that result in more national, racial, cultural, and musical diversity and inclusion.

Could There Be Deleuzian Assessment in Music Education?

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Contemporary Education

Authors of contemporary education and arts education policies tend to emphasize the adoption of formal, summative assessment practices. Poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s emphasis on ongoing differing and imaginative possibilities may at first glance appear incompatible with these overarching, codified assessments. While Deleuze criticizes the increasing use of ongoing assessments as a form of control, he posits a more nuanced explanation of measurement. This philosophical inquiry examines four measurement-related themes from Deleuze’s writings and explores how they might inform concepts and practices of assessment in various music teaching and learning contexts. The first theme suggests that each group of connective relations, what Deleuze terms a “plane of immanence,” demands its own forms of measurement. Second, Deleuze emphasizes varieties of measurement. Third, those with power, what Deleuze terms the “majority,” always set the standard for measurement. Fourth, Deleuze derides continuous assessment. His writings suggest that music educators might consider that assessments created for one musical practice or style should not transcend their own “plane of immanence,” that a variety of nonstandardized assessments is desirable, that the effect of measurement on “minoritarian” musical practices must be examined carefully, and that it is essential to ponder the potentials of unmeasured music making.

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