Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections

Bennett Reimer

doi:10.5771/9781607092377

Summary

Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled: -generating core values for the field of music education; -the core in larger societal and educational contexts; -what to teach and how to teach it effectively; -how we need to educate our teachers; -the role of research in our profession; and -how to improve our future status. Reimer precedes each essay with background reflections and his position, both professional and personal, on effectively addressing the issue at hand. The opening 'Letter to the Reader' presents a valuable overview based on his deeply grounded viewpoint. The entire music education profession will benefit from Reimer's perspective on past, present, and future concerns central to the functioning of music education in Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections.

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Edition: 1/2009
Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-235-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-237-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 412
Product Type: Monograph

1. CONTENTS No access
2. A LETTER TO THE READER No access
1. 1. Ch01. WHAT MUSIC CANNOT DO No access
  2. Ch02. ESSENTIAL ANDNONESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICSOF AESTHETIC EDUCATION No access
  3. Ch03. THE EXPERIENCE OFPROFUNDITY IN MUSIC No access
  4. Ch04. SHOULD THERE BE A UNIVERSALPHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC EDUCATION? No access
  5. Ch05. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING:RECONCILING DISCREPANTACCOUNTS OF MUSICAL AFFECT No access
2. 1. Ch06. SELFNESS AND OTHERNESSIN EXPERIENCING MUSIC OFFOREIGN CULTURES No access
  2. Ch07. GENDER, FEMINISM, AND AESTHETICEDUCATION: DISCOURSES OFINCLUSION AND EMPOWERMENT No access
  3. Ch08. RESEARCH AND JUSTIFICATIONIN ARTS EDUCATION: ANILL-FATED ROMANCE No access
  4. Ch09. ROOTS OF INEQUITY ANDINJUSTICE: THE CHALLENGESFOR MUSIC EDUCATION No access
  5. Ch10. ARTISTIC CREATIVITY, ETHICS,AND THE AUTHENTIC SELF No access
1. 1. Ch11. CHOOSING ART FOR EDUCATION:CRITERIA FOR QUALITY No access
  2. Ch12. WHAT IS PERFORMING WITHUNDERSTANDING? No access
  3. Ch13. MERELY LISTENING No access
  4. Ch14. PHILOSOPHY IN THESCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAM No access
2. 1. Ch15. AN AGENDA FOR MUSIC TEACHEREDUCATION, PARTS I AND II No access
  2. Ch16. AVOIDING EXTREMES OFTHEORY AND PRACTICE INMUSIC TEACHER EDUCATION No access
  3. Ch17. TOWARD A RESEARCH-BASEDFOUNDATION FOR DOCTORALPROGRAMS IN MUSIC EDUCATION No access
3. 1. Ch18. TOWARD A MORESCIENTIFIC APPROACH TOMUSIC EDUCATION RESEARCH No access
  2. Ch19. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ANDTHE POST-POSITIVIST MIND No access
  3. Ch20. NEW BRAIN RESEARCHON EMOTION AND FEELING:DRAMATIC IMPLICATIONSFOR MUSIC EDUCATION No access
1. 1. Ch21. IS MUSICAL PERFORMANCEWORTH SAVING? No access
  2. Ch22. MUSICAL DISENCHANTMENT ANDREENCHANTMENT: THE CHALLENGESFOR MUSIC EDUCATION No access
  3. Ch23. MUSIC EDUCATION FORCULTURAL EMPOWERMENT No access
  4. Ch24. THE WAY IT WILL BE No access
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 411 - 412