Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn
Judith A. Jellison
Abstract
This book is not so much about how to teach as it is about how to think as a teacher confronting a variety of learning challenges. The challenge for music education, for music teachers, is to create meaningful learning opportunities for all children, preparing them to participate happily and successfully in rewarding music experiences throughout their lives. The principal features that characterize such experiences are universal in the sense that they are applicable in ways that engage diverse groups of children in common experiences that are valued by their teachers, their parents, and their ... More
This book is not so much about how to teach as it is about how to think as a teacher confronting a variety of learning challenges. The challenge for music education, for music teachers, is to create meaningful learning opportunities for all children, preparing them to participate happily and successfully in rewarding music experiences throughout their lives. The principal features that characterize such experiences are universal in the sense that they are applicable in ways that engage diverse groups of children in common experiences that are valued by their teachers, their parents, and their peers. This book focuses on a universal approach that recognizes the needs of individual students and includes learning environments in which all students participate in the same activities, experience personal success, and contribute to the success of their classmates. The four chapters focus on the uniqueness of children, biases, and stereotyping; designing meaningful music programs; using governing principles to guide decisions (e.g., increasing positive peer interactions, fostering self-determination, collaboration), and accomplishing music goals using universal strategies. The book provides context with a historical timeline and chapters tracing the development of laws and significant changes in teaching practices, including those concerning music and the disabilities movement, laws, and music education.
Keywords:
inclusion,
music education,
diverse school populations,
learning challenges,
universal approach
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199358762 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199358762.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Judith A. Jellison, author
Butler School of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
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