ON PROGRAMS IN MUSIC EDUCATION
Abstract
What should we do to music teachers in training, and what should the music teachers do in teaching, to ensure the musicality of what children learn? Churchley looks at the variety of systems in teaching now extant, and at the adaptive or eclectic measures that teachers resort to when faced with selecting what to do next Monday or next term. His recommendation, "deceptively simple," is to focus on music itself and on the human lives that music is meant to enhance. He analyses for us the sequence in which the constituent concepts of music are naturally acquired - with an eye on the child born into today's world of sound, and with the humanity of an experienced teacher who knows how things get started with young people. In accordance with all this he recommends for the preparation of teachers a sequence of training in basic musicianship, an objective and practical sampling of all the major systems of learning music, and final study of any one such system in great depth. RÉSUMÉ Quelles consignes faut-il donner aux professeurs-stagiaires de musique et que doivent faire ces derniers pour assurer l'éducation musicale de nos enfants? Churchley examine les divers systèmes existants ainsi que les mesures d'adaptation éclectiques auxquelles les professeurs ont recours lorsqu'ils décident du contenu du cours de la semaine ou du trimestre à venir. Sa recommandation, presque trop simple, est d'axer l'enseignement sur la musique et sur l'élévation de l'être qu'elle est sensée produire. Il analyse pour nous l'ordre dans lequel les concepts musicaux s'acquièrent naturellement, en ne perdant pas de vue l'enfant qui nait dans le monde sonore qui est le nôtre, et avec l'expérience humaine d'un professeur qui sait comment les jeunes abordent l'existence. Dans cet esprit, il suggère une méthode de formation des professeurs de musique et propose un objectif et un échantillonnage pratique pour les principaux systèmes d'éducation musicale aunsi qu'une étude approfondie d'un de ces systèmes en particulier.Downloads
Published
1980-09-01
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Churchley, F. (1980). ON PROGRAMS IN MUSIC EDUCATION. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 15(003). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7347
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