Key Approaches in Music Education - MUED1005

This unit will provide students with an opportunity to develop knowledge of and teaching skills related to music education approaches that have influenced current practice. Students will focus on a number of internationally recognised approaches to teaching music, for example, those developed by Orff and Kodaly; Comprehensive Musicianship, and the creativity movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More recent approaches reflecting multiculturalism, globalization, mediated learning, constructivism, Informal Learning and forms of enculturation and musical creativity evident in children's musical worlds will also be explored.

Classes
1 x 2 hour workshop per week

Assessment
Written review (50%), Devise teaching/learning sequences (40%), Practical in-class participation (10%)

Additional information
NB: Department permission required for enrolment by students not enrolled in BMus (Music Ed)