5 episodes

A slightly uncomfortable discussion about what's going on in music education in America.

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A slightly uncomfortable discussion about what's going on in music education in America.

    Episode Three: Do We Ever Really Learn?

    Episode Three: Do We Ever Really Learn?

    This episode investigates the history of music education, the cultural shifts that have occurred in America since the middle part of the 1800s until today, and how that may have sculpted and framed the various music methodologies that we currently use in American public school education programs.



    Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

    Class Dismissed, a “film about learning outside of the classroom”

    A Concise History of American Music Education by Michael Mark

    Duke’s mod-u Social Science Research Institute

    This timeline of the history of American Education

    This video published by the Lowell Mason House

    PBS’s History Detectives Slave Songbook

    The Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning Channel’s interview with Diane Ravitch

    Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future

    This Kennedy Center video

    The Child’s Bill of Rights published by the MENC

    Eyes on the Prize, Episode 13

    • 27 min
    The Equity Episode, Part 2: The Box is Broken

    The Equity Episode, Part 2: The Box is Broken

    This episode continues the dialogue about equity in education and will conclude with a personal critical pedagogy statement.



    Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

    Wings by Christopher Myers

    Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education: From Understanding to Application, Lind & McKoy

    Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice

    https://www.pblworks.org

    Nancy Gallavan’s Checklist for Cultural Competence

    • 24 min
    The Equity Episode, Part 1: Culture Capital

    The Equity Episode, Part 1: Culture Capital

    This episode uses a reading of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) as a jumping-off point to look at diversity, equity and inclusion in music education.



    Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:


    “A Philosophy of Outreach,” an upcoming paper by Dr. Adrian Barnes
    How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green
    The work of Bryan Powell
    The work of Susan Katherina Langer, including Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art
    Resources that could serve as a starting place for Allison’s Tracing it Back project: https://teachrock.org/traceitback/
    The Servant as Leader by Robert K. Greenleaf
    Transformational Leadership for the Helping Professions: Engaging Head, Heart, and Soul by Jean F. East
    James Banks’ Approaches to Multicultural Curricular Reform

    • 50 min
    Education Solved! Part 2: Art is Individual

    Education Solved! Part 2: Art is Individual

    We try to tackle the sins of the past in music education and look for solutions.



    Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

    What is it Like to Be a Bat?



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    • 20 min
    Education Solved! Part 1

    Education Solved! Part 1

    We try to tackle the sins of the past in music education and look for solutions.



    Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:


    Songs with a Questionable Past All-Encompassing Document
    ... Facebook. We mentioned Facebook a lot.
    Teaching Tolerance
    Educators for Equality
    Teaching for Openings: Pedagogy as Dialect (Greene)
    A Talk to Teachers (Baldwin)
    White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
    We Were Eight Years in Power
    Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

    • 49 min

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