To Rote or To Note?   The debate of rote vs. note has been written about copiously since the advent of music education, and in particular, Western music education. While the debate is less [...]

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Musical ‘Expertise’ and the High School Experience   Common Characteristics of Expert Performance within their Domain - Perceive large meaningful patterns (reading music) - - Process [...]

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Musical Manipulation and the Droopy Eyed Teenager   The Monday morning after a long winter break just might be the least motivating moment for a high school student all year. The refreshed [...]

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Mindfulness, Ambiguity, and Aesthetic Hierarchy: A Philosophy for Music Education   The purpose of philosophy in education is to examine the fundamental values of what and how we teach. [...]

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Deborah Bradley's Decolonizing Music Education Philosophy The effect of colonialism within education has been the marginalization of students of color and the dismissal of ‘indigenous’ forms of [...]

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