ERIC Number: EJ1424465
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0027-4321
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From the Academic Editor: Considering and Embracing Change in Music Education
Douglas C. Orzolek
Music Educators Journal, v110 n3 p7-9 2024
Music is ever expanding and growing. It feels as if there is a new artist, genre, technology, or something happening in the broad world of music on a daily basis. Our ability to access all sorts of music and musical information has never been easier. Running parallel to this ever-changing landscape of music and music-making is a similar pattern of innovation, change, and calls for reform in the field of education. When the ongoing evolution of music and the regular calls for reform and change in education are combined, the profession finds itself in what might feel like a wheel that never stops spinning. For teachers who have been in the profession for some time, however, the call for change or reform in music education is nothing new. Bringing rock music, guitars, jazz, technology, and a more diverse and culturally relevant music education to students has been on the table for over half a century - this call is nothing new. As the author notes, music education's capacity for change is complicated not only by internal debates about the merits of certain musics or movements or the external influences of politics, reformers, and needs of societies but also by the complex truth and role of music as an art form. According to the author, both music and music education are constantly evolving and changing based on the ebbs and flows of what is happening in our world.
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Music Activities, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Social History, Cultural Context, Change Strategies, Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Innovation
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