MUED 5653 Issues in Music Education
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Semester: Fall 2002
Class: T 9:30 - 11:30
Instructor: Dr. Dale Misenhelter
Phone: 5-5746
Office:226 Music
Office Hours: M-R 10:00- 11:00
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Objective
To stimulate thinking concerning the teaching profession and life as evidenced by demonstrating ability to
logically analyze, criticize, and/or choose alternatives consistent with some value orientation.
To provide a basis upon which future and current music teachers may identify issues and trends in the music teaching
profession, with the concurrent expectation that students will be able to articulate, document, and defend a personal
philosophy of music education.
Texts and Materials:
A Book for Music Teachers, David Lane, Presser Books, Bryn Mawr (1987)
Contemporary Music Education, Michael Mark, Schirmer Books, NY (1988).
Music Education in the United States: Contemporary Issues, Terry Gates (Ed), Univ. Alabama Press (1988).
Music Education: Historical Context and Perspectives, Labuta, J. & Smith, D., Prentice Hall (1997).
A Philosophy of Music Education, Bennett Reimer, Prentice-Hall, Englewoods Cliff, NJ (1989).
Additional readings (considerable) drawn from journals and other sources to be identified.
Assignments (All assignments are to be typed)
Weights
Required Reading
Participation - discussion and atttendance
5
Quiz: Introductory Readings
15
Exam: Historical
20
Report 1: Special Topic (Oral and Written)
15
Report: Historical Selection (Oral)
5
Report: Experimental Research (Oral)
Final Paper: Trends and Philosophy
5
35
Discussion Topics (a partial listing)
Referentialist and Formalist Philosophies
Historical Trends and Implications
Contemporary Media Influences
Realist, Humanist, and Pragmatist Philosophies
Contemporary Constructivism and Critical Pedagogy Trends
Aesthetic and Praxial Music Education
Psychology of Music
Mainstreaming in Music Classrooms
Research in Music
Teacher Training Models
Multicultural Education
Standards and Accountability
Theories of Intelligence
Tests and Measurements in Music
Technology
Curriculum
Advocacy
Music Therapy
CALENDAR
weekly
week of 9 Sep
Historical Trends and Implications
week of 16 Sep
Referentialist and Formalist Philosophies
week of 23 Sep
Research in Music
week of 30 Sep
Realist, Humanist, Pragmatist Philosophies
week of 7 Oct
Aesthetic and Praxial Music Education
week of 14 Oct
Theories of Intelligence
Constructivism and Critical Pedagogy
week of 21 Oct
Psychology of Music
week of 28 Oct
Aesthetic Response
week of 4 Nov
Aesthetic Response presentation to MUED 3813
week of 11 Nov
Tests and Measurements in Music
Mainstreaming in Music Classrooms
week of 18 Nov
Contemporary Media Influences
Teacher Training
week of 25 Nov
Technology
week of 2 Dec
Multicultural Trends
Advocacy
week of 9 Dec
Final Paper Discussion
QUIZ 1
Historical Presentation (oral)
EXAM (historical and philosophical topics)
(Special Topic Report)
Experimental Research Presentation
Final Paper due