Summer 2020 Music Education Graduate Courses
9586L – Special Topics in Music Education:
Music Education in Inclusive Contexts
July 6-17, 2020
Instructor: Cathy Benedict - [email protected]
Caroline Blumer - [email protected]
10:00-12:00 synchronous daily (first 2 weeks of July)
Course Description:
This class is first and foremost a class where making music together is viewed as primary to human development and that ‘inclusion’ (as difference) frames and underscores the very notion of what it means to be human. While there will be a focus on disability studies in music education inclusion will be addressed in a broad sense as well. Thus, the class will be predicated on the following guiding questions:
• What is normal?
• Medical vs Social Model of Disability
• Are we all equal?
• What is fair?
• Whose culture is it, anyway?
• Who benefits?
• Gender Inclusivity
• Decolonization
• Religion-blindness
Course Objectives:
1. Examine the social, political and economic implications of human diversity in modern society.
2. Examine key legislative events in the development of education for ‘exceptional’ students as reflected in curricular and instructional practice
3. Broaden personal experiences with students and their challenges through readings, essays, webinars, guest lecturers, observations, group interactions and projects.
4. Identify goals and purposes for the improvement of engaged music experiences for all students
5. Experience and use a variety of pedagogical approaches that assist learning.
9586L – Special Topics in Music Education:
Music Education in Inclusive Contexts
July 6-17, 2020
Instructor: Cathy Benedict - [email protected]
Caroline Blumer - [email protected]
10:00-12:00 synchronous daily (first 2 weeks of July)
Course Description:
This class is first and foremost a class where making music together is viewed as primary to human development and that ‘inclusion’ (as difference) frames and underscores the very notion of what it means to be human. While there will be a focus on disability studies in music education inclusion will be addressed in a broad sense as well. Thus, the class will be predicated on the following guiding questions:
• What is normal?
• Medical vs Social Model of Disability
• Are we all equal?
• What is fair?
• Whose culture is it, anyway?
• Who benefits?
• Gender Inclusivity
• Decolonization
• Religion-blindness
Course Objectives:
1. Examine the social, political and economic implications of human diversity in modern society.
2. Examine key legislative events in the development of education for ‘exceptional’ students as reflected in curricular and instructional practice
3. Broaden personal experiences with students and their challenges through readings, essays, webinars, guest lecturers, observations, group interactions and projects.
4. Identify goals and purposes for the improvement of engaged music experiences for all students
5. Experience and use a variety of pedagogical approaches that assist learning.
