Music Education with Digital Technology / Edition 1

by John Finney, Pamela Burnard, Sue Brindley, Anthony Adams

Overview

This book draws together a range of innovative practices, underpinned by theoretical insight, that helps to clarify musical practices of relevance to the changing nature of schooling and the transformation of music education. In this way it addresses a pressing need to provide new ways of thinking about the application of music and technology in schools. More specifically it;
- Covers a diverse and wide range of technology, environments and contexts on topics that demonstrate and recognize new possibilities for innovative work in education.
- Deals with teaching strategies and approaches that stimulate different forms of musical experience, meaningful engagement, musical learning, creativity and teacher-learner interactions, responses, monitoring and assessment.
- Investigates how teachers and pupils voice and value their experiences in contexts and environments with specific software, hardware and forms of technology.
- Explores the professional development aspects involved in teachers and learners utilizing and interacting with technology and the secondary music curriculum.
- Introduces reflective practices and research methodologies of great interest and relevance to music teachers, teacher-trainers, community artists and researchers and professional practitioners alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826420718
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/10/2010
Series:	Education and Digital Technology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Finney is Senior Lecturer in Music Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Pamela Burnard is Senior Lecturer in Music and Arts Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword \ Acknowledgements \ Introduction\ Part I: Changing Identities \ 1. Music Education as Identity Project in aWorld of Electronic Desires John Finney \ 2. Perspectives from a New GenerationSecondary School Music Teacher Hannah Quinn \ 3. The Gender Factor: TeachingComposition in Music Technology Lessons to Boys and Girls in Year 9 Louise Cooper\ 4. Finding Flow through Music Technology Serena Croft \ 5. The Mobile Phoneand Class Music: A Teacher's Perspective Alex Baxter \ Part II: ResearchingDigital Classrooms \ 6. The DJ Factor: Teaching Performance and Compositionfrom Back to Front Mike Challis \ 7. Composing with Graphical Technologies:Representations, Manipulations and Affordances Kevin Jennings \ 8. NetworkedImprovisational Musical Environments: Learning through On-line CollaborativeMusic Making Andrew R. Brown and Steven Dillon \ 9. Music e-LearningEnvironments: Young People, Composing and the Internet Frederick A. Seddon \ 10.Current and Future Practices: Embedding Collaborative Music Technologies in SecondarySchools Teresa Dillon \ Part III: Strategies for Change \ 11. Strategies forSupporting Music Learning through On-line Collaborative Technologies S. AlexRuthmann \ 12. Pedagogical Strategies for Change Jonathan Savage \ 13. NewForms of Composition, and How to Enable Them Ambrose Field \ 14. MusicEducation and Training: ICT, Innovation and Curriculum Reform Richard Hodges \ 15.Strategies for Enabling Curriculum Reform: Lessons from Australia, Singaporeand Hong Kong Samuel Leong \ 16. Creativity and Technology: Critical Agents ofChange in the Work and Lives of Music Teachers Pamela Burbanard \ Contributors \Glossary \ Index

Editorial Reviews

'A welcome addition to the literature on digital technology and music education. For those studying to be teachers, or researching music education at university, it will serve as an important reference work. I would also like to hope that it could influence classroom practice.' Bill Crow in Music Education Research

'What John Finney and Pamela Burnard have managed to achieve is perhaps the first truly unique contribution to the challenges, changes and innovations that digital technology presents to the music curricula for teachers in schools today...this book is certainly useful and thought provoking, and is a welcome addition to the literature in the field of music education.' Andrew King in the Journal of Music, Technology and Education

'The editors have assembled an impressive list of contributors - 17 academics, teachers, researchers and musicians, who are mainly from the UK but also from Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong and the USA... [This book] explores a wide range of digital technologies, including iPods, ring tones, DJ mixing, MIDI workstations, sound synthesis, recording, sequencing and score writing software, and the affordances of Web 2.0, including blogs, podcasts, wikis and social networking sites.' British Journal of Music Education

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