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A Program For The Training Of Elementary Art-Music Teachers, Edward A. Boynton
A Program For The Training Of Elementary Art-Music Teachers, Edward A. Boynton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The writer has had experience as a supervisor of music at the elementary and secondary levels. This experience combined with the development of courses to suit the program for an elementary teacher training institution provided the background for the development of this project.
The problem, as it appeared to the writer, was that in spite of valiant efforts on the part of music supervisors and art teachers’ elementary students did not comprehend music or art as an aesthetic whole. The methods in use, in most Maine schools, presented the arts as a technical skill to be mastered by the student …