21st Century Music Teaching - (Second Edition)

Author: (Canada) Lois Choksy, (USA) Robert Abramson, (USA) Evelyn Gi, (Australia) David Woods, (USA) Frank York
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Compared to the previous edition, a significant feature of this book is its thorough attention to the profound impression of the 21st century—music teacher education and music education technology. Its appropriately advanced development is one of the important conditions ensuring the success of China's new round of basic music education curriculum reform. The planning and steady implementation of distance courses for music teacher education effectively leverage and explore multimedia operation and usage methods, playing a substantial role in promoting the development of music teacher school-based curriculum and school-based research activities in the current basic music education curriculum reform. The book explores the purposes and goals of the four teaching methods or teaching systems discussed. The grade-level achievement standards listed in the "National Standards for Arts Education" can, to a large extent, be seen as a mirror reflecting the expected outcomes of Jacques-Dalcroze, Kodály, Orff, and Comprehensive Musicianship Approach. Based on this, incorporating the "National Standards for Arts Education" into the framework of this book seems to be highly important and meaningful.