Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections

Contents

• Part 1 Part I : Our Values as a School Subject
• Part 2 Establishing Core Values
• Chapter 3 What Music Cannot Do
• Chapter 4 Essential and Nonessential Characteristics of Aesthetic Education
• Chapter 5 The Experience of Profundity in Music
• Chapter 6 Should There Be a Universal Philosophy of Music Education
• Chapter 7 Once More with Feeling
• Part 8 The Core in Larger Contexts
• Chapter 9 Selfness and Otherness in Experiencing Music of Foreign Cultures
• Chapter 10 Gender, Feminism, and Aesthetic Education: Discourses of Inclusion and Empowerment
• Chapter 11 Research and Justification in Arts Education: An Ill-Fated Romance
• Chapter 12 Artistic Creativity, Ethics, and the Authentic Self
• Part 13 Part II : Achieving Our Values
• Part 14 What and How to Teach
• Chapter 15 Choosing Art for Education: Criteria for Quality
• Chapter 16 What Is Performing with Understanding?
• Chapter 17 Merely Listening
• Chapter 18 Philosophy in the School Music Program
• Part 19 Educating Our Teachers
• Chapter 20 An Agenda for Music Teacher Education,
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• Part II Chapter 21 Avoiding Extremes of Theory and Practice in Music Teacher Education
• Chapter 22 Toward a Research-Based Foundation for Doctoral Studies in Music Education
• Part 23 The Role of Research
• Chapter 24 Toward a More Scientific Approach to Music Education Research
• Chapter 25 Qualitative Research and the Post-Positivist Mind
• Chapter 26 New Brain Research on Emotion and Feeling: Dramatic Implications for Music Education
• Part 27 Part III : Preserving and Enhancing Our Viability
• Part 28 Our Values in Service of Our Future
• Chapter 29 Is Musical Performance Worth Saving?
• Chapter 30 Musical Disenchantment and Reenchantment: The Challenge for Music Education
• Chapter 31 Music Education for Cultural Empowerment
• Chapter 32 The Way It Will Be