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Considering Possibilities, Crafting Praxis - IMPACT 2015
Questions from undergraduates:
Considering questions raised by preservice music educators from ASU MUE110: Intro To Music Ed, 2015.
What roles do current music offerings in school play in relation to fostering life-long musicking?
What types of technology are useful in contemporary musicking? Is it best to look for the newest or just stick to what works?
What roles do students and teachers take on in existing music learning spaces?
In what ways might those roles change when considering contemporary musicking?
What music experiences can/should be include in schools?
What are the affordances and constraints of being a specialized musician? What about being a well-rounded musician?
In what ways can a music education program and a community strengthen each other?
Should music education concern itself with what is, or is it more properly concerned with what could be?
How might we help students expand their musical relationship with the community in which they live?
What would you teach if you didn't have concerts?
What changes when we shift from being teachers of skills and things toward being facilitators of experiences? Who changes?
What if we considered Koza's warning? "[I]f school music preserves the past to the exclusion of [contemporary musicking], it paves its own path to extinction”
What if I had every kid remix their own works (or classmates)? What types of reflection and discussions might be afforded?
What if the most common question in music classrooms were: "Where do you want to go next?"
What if we considered how teachers might be hindering learning?
What if we keep authentic musical processes at the core? How might we find ways to connect classroom to community?
Questioning - Shaking things up
In order to shake up our current thinking and to consider the task at hand from different perspectives, let's ask each other and ourselves some questions. Many of the questions below might make you reconsider things, possibly allowing you to confront your own frame for teaching and learning. If you'd like to ad questions, please tweet your question with #whatifmusiced and it will appear below.