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Music Education And Its Impact On L2 Learning, Johanna Nilsson
Music Education And Its Impact On L2 Learning, Johanna Nilsson
Master's Projects and Capstones
English Language Learners are disproportionately underrepresented in secondary music classes in the United States. They are systematically excluded due to overly restrictive schedules, high emphasis on test scores and academic remediation, real and perceived cost of participation, and the types of courses that are offered at most secondary schools. At the same time, musical intervention research has revealed that musical ability is linked to literacy, pronunciation, and vocabulary retention, all aspects of second language acquisition. By excluding English Language Learners from music education, we could be denying them a tool that could positively impact their language acquisition. However, most of …
Four Chords To Freedom - Human Rights Education Through Music Performance, Noah Romero
Four Chords To Freedom - Human Rights Education Through Music Performance, Noah Romero
Master's Projects and Capstones
The purpose of this field project is to develop and implement a workshop called Four Chords to Freedom, which combines music performance with decolonizing, postcolonial feminist human rights education to serve as a space for transformative praxis in formal and non-formal educational settings. This field project includes observations from the activity, as well as recommendations for educators who are interested in combining human rights education with music performance to explore pedagogical approaches that develop skills and orientations centered on a critical understanding of human rights.