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Book SynopsisMusic connects the lives of students, teachers, and school communities in many ways. Music is also integrally related to other art forms, history, culture, and other subjects commonly taught in schools. These relationships deserve critical attention, particularly as educators seek to reorient their curricula and pedagogy toward the pressing aims of social justice. Seeking Connections encourages interdisciplinarity as a capacity to be exercised-an orientation or habit of mind that teachers and students can develop. This capacity depends upon viewing music as permeable, recognizing that music influences related ways of knowing, just as related ways of knowing influence music. This book invites teachers to create educational experiences that engage students in exploring an expansive relationship with music. With imaginative examples drawn from diverse musical genres, visual art, poetry, and historical cases, Seeking Connections provides thoughtful principles, models, and instructional str
Trade ReviewBuilding upon decades of work on interdisciplinarity in the music curriculum, Janet Revell Barrett invites music educators to consider ways music learning can be more interconnected to other disciplines, contemporary society, and studentsâ lives. She masterfully accomplishes this through compelling arguments, unique cases from the field, detailed pedagogical models, reflective questioning, and thought-provoking stories. Music educators will find this book to be most informative and inspiring. * Carlos R. Abril, Professor of Music Education, Frost School of Music, University of Miami *
Table of ContentsPreface Orienting questions Chapter 1: Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective Chapter 2: Interdisciplinarity from the inside out Chapter 3: Multidimensionality as a springboard for connections: The Facets Model Chapter 4: The musics of our time Chapter 5: The foundations of an interdisciplinary pedagogy Chapter 6: Triptych play Chapter 7: Bridges of inspiration: Synergy between music and art Chapter 8: Connecting contexts: Music and history Chapter 9: Assessing the strength of connections Chapter 10: The music curriculum in an interdisciplinary landscape References
