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 Case Studies in Music Education
2nd edition
Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head
GIA Publishers
 

Case Studies in Music Education 2nd edition Frank Abrahams and Paul Head Case Studies in Music Education is about making the journey as a music teacher--about the critical real-world issues music teachers face but rarely seem to get the notice of college or graduate school music courses. How should a music teacher balance learning and performing? What is the best way to handle an angry parent? What are the consequences of the grades teachers assign? What are the best ways to discipline students? How should teachers relate to the administrators? To other teachers? What if the school is breaking the copyright law? These are just a few of the issues covered in this book.

Critical Pedagogy Where Are We Now
Peter McLaren & Joe Kincheloe, editors
Peter Lang, Publishers

Critical Pedagogy Where Are We Now Peter McLaren and Joe Kincheloe, editors  In Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now? the contributors discuss how the field of critical pedagogy should respond to such dire conditions in a way that is theoretically savvy and visionary, while concurrently contributing to the struggle to improve the lives of those most hurt by them. Chapter 12: Musicing Paulo Freire: A Critical Pedagogy for Music Education Peter Lang Publishers

Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir, Volume 1.
compiled and edited by Heather J. Buchanan and Matthew W. Mehaffey
GIA Publishers

Chapter 5: Meeting National Standards for Music Education Through Choral Performance Compiled by scholars with a wealth of teaching and conducting experience, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 1 covers such topics as breath control, stylistic awareness from polyphony through the Classical period, the challenges of modern music, "Performance Practice in the African American Slave Song," and "Meeting the National Standards through Choral Performance." Part II establishes a new system for grading the difficulty of choral repertoire, and contains nuts-and-bolts analysis of more than 100 of the most significant works for choir composed, Levels 1 through 5. Repertoire Resource Guides include information on the composer and composition, historical background, technical requirements, stylistic considerations, musical elements, suggestions for additional listening, and a guide to selected references.

Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom:
A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform
Volume 1
edited by Carol Frierson-Campbell
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
 

Chapter 12: A New Sound for Urban Schools: Rethinking How We Plan Frank Abrahams & Patrick K. Schmidt The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform is the start of a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality. Its diverse authors range from classroom music teachers to inner city arts administrators to well-known academics and policy-makers from across the United States and Canada. This first of two volumes includes topics such as Cultural Responsivity, Music Teacher Stories, Teaching Strategies, and Alternative Teaching Models.

Training Music Teachers
 edited by Michele Biasutti
Cleup, Padova Italy

Blogging to Uncover The Emerging Dispositions of Pre-Service Music Teachers: A Critical Phenomeonology   and   "Blogging" per scoprire le disposizioni all'insegnamento emergenti da insegnanti di musica in formazione: una fenomenologia critica.

Policies and Practices:
Rethinking Music Teacher Preparation
in the 21st Century
 complied and edited by Roger R. Rideout
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Critical Pedagogy for Music Education: A Best Practice for Pre-Service Music Teacher Curricula

Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Choir
compiled and edited by Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head
GIA Publishers
(forthcoming)

 “Critical Pedagogy in the Community Music Education Programs of Brazil” International Journal of Community Music (1) 1, 2008 pp. 117-126

 “Critical Pedagogy in the Community Music Education Programs of Brazil” International Journal of Community Music (3), 2005.

“The Application of Critical Pedagogy to Music Teaching and Learning” Visions of Research
                in  Music Education, (6), (January, 2005).

  “The Application of Critical Pedagogy to Music Teaching and Learning:  A Literature Review.” 
                Update: Applications of Research to Music Teaching.  Music Educators National
                Conference, Spring/Summer, 2005.

“Transforming Classroom Music Instruction with Ideas from Critical Pedagogy” Music Educators
                Journal. Reston , Va. : Music Educators National Conference, (29) 1,  September, 2005.

“Applicação de Pedagogia Crítica ao Ensino e Aprendizagem de
                Música.”  Revista da Associação Brasileira de Educação Musical. March, 2005.

“The Application of Critical Theory to a  Sixth Grade General Music Class” Visions of Research in
                Music Education, (4), (February, 2004).

“National Standards for Music Education and College Pre-Service Music Teacher                                                                    Frank Abrahams, Senior Editor
                Education: A New Balance” Arts Education Policy Review, 102 (2)                                                                                                                                               http://www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme/
                (September/October 2000).

“Meeting National Standards For Music Education Through Choral
                Performance” in Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir Volume 1 G.I.A.
                2005.

Implementing the National Standards for Music Education in Pre-Service Teacher
                 Education Programs:  A Qualitative Study of Two Schools (Doctoral
                dissertation, Temple University, 2000). UMI  9965947.

 “Music Education in the 21st Century” Yamaha New Ways in Music Education,
                11 (1).

“Portfolios in Student Teaching,” MENC Special Research Interest Group:
                Measurement and Evaluation 17 (Summer, 1994).

“Using A Learning Styles Approach to Help ‘At-Risk’ Youth in Music,”
                General Music Today (Fall, 1992).

“Works of Edwin Gordon: An Appraisal” The Quarterly 2, (Spring/Summer
                1991). Co-author with Richard Colwell

Frank Abrahams, Series Editor
               Published by Transcontinental Music Publications and distributed by Hal Leonard Music   
                Publishers.  Series Editor 

                Publications include:

Work Cited In

Conway, Colleen. “The Case Method and Music Teacher Education,” Update: Applications of  
                Research in Music Education (Spring/Summer, 1999) 20.

Conway, Colleen M. “The Development of Teaching Cases for Instrumental
                Music Methods Courses,” Journal of Research in Music Education (47), 4:
                343-356.

Bluestein, Eric. The Ways Children Learn Music. Chicago: GIA., 1995.

Jorgensen, Estelle. Transforming Music Education. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,  
                2003.

Cooper, Lynn G. Teaching Band and Orchestra: Methods and Materials.  Chicago: GIA, 2004.

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