Informal Learning in Music: Emerging Roles of Teachers and Students

Autor/in	Rodriguez, Carlos
Titel	Informal Learning in Music: Emerging Roles of Teachers and Students
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 8 (2009) 2, S.35-45 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Music Education; Informal Education; Musicians; Creative Thinking; Music Teachers; Epistemology; Teaching Methods; Teacher Role; Learning Experience; Preservice Teachers; Student Role; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Musiker; Kreatives Denken; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Erkenntnistheorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerrolle; Lernerfahrung
Abstract	In her new book "Music, Informal Learning and the School" (2008), Lucy Green consolidates many ideas presented in her previous writings. There is little doubt of the significance of her approach, but it raises epistemological and pedagogical issues that must be addressed to better understand where music teachers go next with informal learning, so that they might provide more relevant, engaging public school music instruction. Green's ideas resonate with the growing support for more creative thinking in the classroom. If teachers construe creativity as a three-part process of considering expected outcomes, rejecting them, then exploring alternatives, informal learning shows great promise for revitalizing music education. However, they are yet in the infancy stage of their inquiry, with so many new questions arising from the emergent literature. Therefore, in this paper the author presents several problems with informal learning that he has encountered in his work--specifically, the new roles for teachers in informal learning, and providing informal learning experiences to students who have substantive skill as formal musicians. The author discusses these problems in the context of his experiences with pre-service music educators at the University of South Florida, and with a rock band at a local urban high school. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10