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 (http://classdismissedmovie.com/), a “film about learning outside of the classroom”
A Concise History of American Music Education (https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-American-Music-Education/dp/1578868513) by Michael Mark
Duke’s mod-u (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDfHkEuoKb_TXYkQY6BkIIg) Social Science Research Institute
This timeline (http://www.eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html#1800) of the history of American Education
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK55RLZIBXM) published by the Lowell Mason House
PBS’s History Detectives Slave Songbook (https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/slave-songbook/)
The Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning Channel’s interview with Diane Ravitch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULrkZYncbq8)
Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future (https://howardgardner.com/five-minds-for-the-future/)
This Kennedy Center video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25i3RJ9gvIs)
The Child’s Bill of Rights (https://web.archive.org/web/20080929204920/http://www.menc.org/resources/view/child-s-bill-of-rights) published by the MENC
Eyes on the Prize (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/), Episode 13
7 Aug 2020
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 (https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Christopher-Myers/dp/0590033778) by Christopher Myers
Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education: From Understanding to Application (https://books.google.com/books/about/Culturally_Responsive_Teaching_in_Music.html?id=Q46PCwAAQBAJ), Lind & McKoy
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Culturally_Responsive_Teaching/0ZlNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=editions)
https://www.pblworks.org (https://www.pblworks.org/)
Nancy Gallavan’s Checklist for Cultural Competence (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16cT9J9juDX4qgshevItaLcTrVnyhghgu/view?usp=sharing)
6 Aug 2020
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 (https://cpa.rowan.edu/music/faculty/barnes-adrian.html)
How Popular Musicians Learn (https://www.amazon.com/How-Popular-Musicians-Learn-Education/dp/0754632261) by Lucy Green (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research-projects/2020/mar/adapting-popular-musicians-practices-classroom)
The work of Bryan Powell (https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=powellb)
The work of Susan Katherina Langer, including Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (https://monoskop.org/images/1/11/Langer_Susanne_K_Feeling_and_Form_A_Theory_of_Art.pdf)
Resources that could serve as a starting place for Allison’s Tracing it Back project: https://teachrock.org/traceitback/ (https://teachrock.org/traceitback/)
The Servant as Leader (https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/) by Robert K. Greenleaf
Transformational Leadership for the Helping Professions: Engaging Head, Heart, and Soul (https://www.amazon.com/Transformational-Leadership-Helping-Professions-Engaging/dp/019091243X) by Jean F. East
James Banks’ Approaches to Multicultural Curricular Reform
28 Jul 2020
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? (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf)
We strongly recommend reactions on Twitter: @WDissonancePod
27 Jul 2020
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 (https://us-west-2.protection.sophos.com/?d=google.com&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9kb2NzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20vZG9jdW1lbnQvZC8xcTFqVkdxT2dLeGZpVVo4TjNvejB3YXJYZWZHSUppbGwyWGhhLTNYNW5VWS9lZGl0P2ZiY2xpZD1Jd0FSMHNVaDQ0cnd2UHQyekpDZDJGNENuSU92MEdLTGRXeVVxQ1FhUzNzd094emJDS2ZXZThQZ0tYb1Yw&e=ZWdpYmJpbnNAYmVya2xlZS5lZHU=&t=MkJrSU1GNGFBcGROaUlocVpFdEZXQ1JWVy9CVjJuUjZEL0VsTlRpd3F3az0=&h=d2d7f570874240c5bbc37afeb15fd4f9)
... Facebook. We mentioned Facebook a lot.
Teaching Tolerance (https://www.tolerance.org/)
Educators for Equality (https://www.gardenstateequality.org/e4e)
Teaching for Openings: Pedagogy as Dialect (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VtNnaolLFWW68eA0GUw-usmRuMYAE86d/view?usp=sharing) (Greene)
A Talk to Teachers (https://drive.google.com/file/d/12AkkvcwY3T5r-_mnelL_UwVExGT2QQnt/view?usp=sharing) (Baldwin)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (https://robindiangelo.com/publications/)
We Were Eight Years in Power (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550170/we-were-eight-years-in-power-by-ta-nehisi-coates/)
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Antiracism-National-Award-winning-Beginning/dp/0316453692)
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