This spring, once again, Diane Ravitch nailed the spirit of our education age. Addressing the Network for Public Education (NPE) conference, Ravitch came with an uplifting message. Corporate reform has failed. A new era of school improvement is dawning. Many of its leaders come from today’s youth. They are the new “Greatest Generation.” Today’s young people, having endured the brunt of test, sort, and punish, are not going to silently take it any longer. They demand schools worthy of our democracy.
Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when?
The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more.
Embodied-enactive concepts of action, perception, and personhood weave through the book's proposals. Practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors' praxial themes.
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Welcome to the Music Matters Website!
This website is a companion piece to the Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education 2nd Edition published by Oxford University Press.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting updates, an online glossary of Music Education, links to additional resources, and much more.
Thank you so much for visiting our website and for your interest in our book. We look forward to an exciting dialog with our peers and the entire Music Education community.
David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman