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Rethinking Purpose: Music, Education And Disciplinary Bridges, Samuel Richards, Cathy Benedict, David Biedenbender, Betty Younker, Mark Clague, Catherine Rand Nov 2012

Rethinking Purpose: Music, Education And Disciplinary Bridges, Samuel Richards, Cathy Benedict, David Biedenbender, Betty Younker, Mark Clague, Catherine Rand

David Biedenbender

Disciplinary identity is often at the core of our musical engagements, scholarly research and educational goals. Our schools, curricula, and pedagogy are repeatedly (and historically) shaped by how we (and others) view ourselves within the institution, the arts, and our culture. However, recent developments in communications, production, distribution, and consumption of music have drastically changed the way everyone engages with music. Have our educational objectives, goals, and identities evolved as well? We believe that at the nexus of these developments is the necessity to create a productive dialogue with other disciplines, both inside and outside of music, in order to …


Ear Training With The Music Of Radiohead, Victoria Malawey Dec 2011

Ear Training With The Music Of Radiohead, Victoria Malawey

Victoria L. Malawey

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Basil Bernstein's Theory Of The Pedagogic Device And Formal Music Schooling: Putting The Theory Into Practice, Ruth Wright, Hildegard Froehlich Dec 2011

Basil Bernstein's Theory Of The Pedagogic Device And Formal Music Schooling: Putting The Theory Into Practice, Ruth Wright, Hildegard Froehlich

Ruth Wright Dr

This article describes Basil Bernstein's theory of the pedagogic device as applied to school music instruction. Showing that educational practices are not personal choices alone, but the result of socio-political mandates, the article traces how education functions as a vehicle for social reproduction. Bernstein called this process the recontextualization of knowledge: From its point of inception, originally conceived knowledge undergoes changes through selection and filtration processes, eventually becoming curriculum--a relay for certain social and cultural values. Gaps in the recontextualization process allow teachers to place their own individual stamp upon the learning and teaching that occur in their classroom. Teacher-pupil …