scholarly journals Elementary Music Education in the Era of Remote Teaching – Constraints and Prospects for Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mirosław Włodzimierz Kisiel
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Elementary Music ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Educational Situation ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
The Given ◽  
Elementary Music Education

In the discourse undertaken, an attempt was made to indicate the limits and perspectives for the development of music education of distance teaching. The specificity of music education based on experience, emotions in action, a creative approach to an artistic creation and expressive action requires special attention in this regard. The teacher is expected to develop a new strategy for action, which in the existing educational situation will result in an increase in students’ interest in music. Obtaining satisfactory results should be seen in the use of teaching methods and forms appropriate for the given situation and means of communication.

Music and Social Justice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Elementary Music ◽  
Elementary Student ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Elementary Music Education ◽  
The Way

This book challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically) about the world around them, each chapter engages with important themes through music making and learning as it presents scenarios, examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas, and lesson plans geared toward elementary students (ages 6–14). Taken-for-granted subjects often considered sacrosanct or beyond the understanding of elementary students, such as friendship, racism, poverty, religion, and class, are addressed and interrogated in a way that honors the voice and critical thinking of the elementary student. Suggestions are given that help both teachers and students to pause, reflect, and redirect dialogue with questions that uncover bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing difference. Guiding questions, which anchor many curricular mandates, are used throughout in order to scaffold critical and reflective thinking beginning in the earliest grades of elementary music education. Where does social justice reside? Whose voice is being heard, and whose is being silenced? How do we come to think of and construct poverty? How is it that musics become used the way they are used? What happens to songs initially intended for socially driven purposes when their significance is undermined? These questions and more are explored, encouraging music teachers to embrace a path toward socially just engagements at the elementary level.

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