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A Tartan Weave: Connecting the Experience of Flow in Traditional Music and Gaelic Language in Pursuit of Heritage Language Survival
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Heather Sparling; Peter MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Gaelic is an endangered language, but the traditional music associated with it thrives. Among individuals committed to learning Gaelic as a heritage language who also engage in traditional music-making, intense experiences shape the connection between language and music. The present study examines the connection between intensely motivating 'flow'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Music, Native Language
On Embedding Indigenous Musics in Schools: Examining the Applicability of Possible Models to One School District's Approach
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Prest, Anita; Goble, J. Scott; Vazquez-Cordoba, Hector – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2023
Recent curriculum policy changes in British Columbia (BC) require that educators in all subject areas--including music--embed local Indigenous knowledge, pedagogies, and worldviews in their classes. Yet facilitating such decolonizing cross-cultural music education activities requires knowledge that music educators may not currently possess. We use…
Descriptors: School Districts, Music Education, American Indians, American Indian Culture
A Population-Level Analysis of Associations between School Music Participation and Academic Achievement
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Guhn, Martin; Emerson, Scott D.; Gouzouasis, Peter – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The present study employed population-level educational records from 4 public school student cohorts (n = 112,916; Grades 7-12) in British Columbia (Canada) to examine relationships between music education (any participation, type of participation, music achievement, and engagement level) and mathematics and science achievement in Grade 10 as well…
Descriptors: Music Education, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Pluralism, the Right, and the Good in Choirs, Orchestras, and Bands
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Mantie, Roger; Tucker, Lynn – International Journal of Music Education, 2012
Publicly funded schools are supposed to serve everyone equally in egalitarian, liberal democracies. In this paper we claim that school music ensembles fail, on the whole, to adequately reflect current socio-demographic patterns in both Canada and the United States. From a postcolonial perspective we attempt to problematize, with reference to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism
Immersion francaise precoce: Musique 1-7 (Early French Immersion: Music for Grades 1-7).
Burt, Andy; And Others – 1981
This curriculum guide in music is intended for use in grades 1-7 in the early French immersion program. The program is presented as one that contributes to the development of the child, calls for flexibility and diversification, and requires a solid music education on the part of the teacher. The guide presents the following topics: (1) statements…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform
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Frierson-Campbell, Carol, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform is the start of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Educational Change