Seeking the Significance of Music Education Essays and Reflections

by Reimer, Bennett

• ISBN13: 9781607092360
• ISBN10: 1607092360
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled: -generating core values for the field of music education; -the core in larger societal and educational contexts; -what to teach and how to teach it effectively; -how we need to educate our teachers; -the role of research in our profession; and -how to improve our future status. Reimer precedes each essay with background reflections and his position, both professional and personal, on effectively addressing the issue at hand. The opening 'Letter to the Reader' presents a valuable overview based on his deeply grounded viewpoint. The entire music education profession will benefit from Reimer's perspective on past, present, and future concerns central to the functioning of music education in Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections.

Author Biography

Bennett Reimer is the John W. Beattie Professor of Music Education Emeritus at Northwestern University. He has written and edited some two dozen books and 150 articles on music, music education, and the arts in education.

Table of Contents

A Letter to the Reader	p. v
Our Values as a School Subject
Generating Core Values	p. 3
What Music Cannot Do	p. 5
Essential and Nonessential characteristics of Aesthetic Education	p. 15
The Experience of Profundity in Music	p. 41
Should There Be a Universal Philosophy of Music Education?	p. 67
Once More with Feeling: Reconciling Discrepant Accounts of Musical Affect	p. 89
Core Values in Larger Contexts	p. 105
Selfness and Otherness in Experiencing Music of Foreign Cultures	p. 107
Gender, Feminism, and Aesthetic Education: Discourses of Inclusion and Empowerment	p. 125
Research and Justification in Arts Education: An III-Fated Romance	p. 153
Roots of Inequity and Injustice: The Challenges for Music Education	p. 163
Artistic Creativity, Ethics, and the Authentic Self	p. 181
Achieving Our Values
What and How to Teach	p. 189
Choosing Art for Education: Criteria for Quality	p. 191
What is Performing with Understanding?	p. 201
Merely Listening	p. 221
Philosophy in the School Music Program	p. 237
Educating Our Teachers	p. 243
An Agenda for Music Teacher Education, Parts I and II	p. 245
Avoiding Extremes of Theory and Practice in Music Teacher Education	p. 263
Toward a Research-Based Foundation for Doctoral Programs in Music Education	p. 277
The Role of Research	p. 299
Toward a More Scientific Approach to Music Education Research	p. 301
Qualitative Research and the Post-Positivist Mind	p. 327
New Brain Research on Emotion and Feeling: Dramatic Implications for Music Education	p. 335
Preserving and Enhancing Our Viability
Our Values in Service of Our Future	p. 353
Is Musical Performance Worth Saving?	p. 355
Musical Disenchantment and Reenchantment: The Challenges for Music Education	p. 381
Music Education for Cultural Empowerment	p. 397
The Way It Will Be	p. 407
About the Author	p. 411
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