Full Description
The Children We Teach places children at the center of music learning and teaching. What we understand about children determines how we teach them: the music learning environments we provide and decisions we make about music content and skills. Unexpressed, but no less meaningful, is the interdependent relationship between music teacher and children. Recent trends in music education emphasize what children should know about music more than what music educators need to know about children. This book offers insight into the innate traits of children such as goodness, kindness, needs, spirituality, playfulness and wonder. Each essay is supported through research and features data from music teacher-participants. When we engage children musically, we have opportunities to nurture children's hearts, minds and spirits as well as our own.
Contents
Preface
Essay 1. Born to be Good
Essay 2. Music and the Aesthetics of Care
Essay 3. What Children Need
Essay 4. Music and the Spiritual Child
Essay 5. Children's Play with Music
Essay 6. Wonder-filled Knowing and Learning
Essay 7. Knowing Those Who Teach
Essay 8. Toward a Pedaogy of Hope
Conclusion
Appendix
References
About the Authors
