Full Description
Music connects the lives of students, teachers, and school communities in many ways. Music is also integrally related to other art forms, history, culture, and other subjects commonly taught in schools. These relationships deserve critical attention, particularly as educators seek to reorient their curricula and pedagogy toward the pressing aims of social justice.
Seeking Connections encourages interdisciplinarity as a capacity to be exercised-an orientation or habit of mind that teachers and students can develop. This capacity depends upon viewing music as permeable, recognizing that music influences related ways of knowing, just as related ways of knowing influence music. This book invites teachers to create educational experiences that engage students in exploring an expansive relationship with music. With imaginative examples drawn from diverse musical genres, visual art, poetry, and historical cases, Seeking Connections provides thoughtful principles, models, and instructional strategies to deepen students' understandings of musical works and inspire interdisciplinary inquiry throughout elementary and secondary music programs, as well as settings in music teacher education and professional development.
Contents
Preface
Orienting questions
Chapter 1: Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective
Chapter 2: Interdisciplinarity from the inside out
Chapter 3: Multidimensionality as a springboard for connections: The Facets Model
Chapter 4: The musics of our time
Chapter 5: The foundations of an interdisciplinary pedagogy
Chapter 6: Triptych play
Chapter 7: Bridges of inspiration: Synergy between music and art
Chapter 8: Connecting contexts: Music and history
Chapter 9: Assessing the strength of connections
Chapter 10: The music curriculum in an interdisciplinary landscape
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