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Advocacy for music programs in the public school systems!Date: August 18, 2010
I am a music education major. I am creating lesson plans to teach students ways to advocate for the music programs during a time of a declining economy and many budget cuts. If anyone has any ideas of ways to persuade non-music individuals, I would love to hear all opinions!
John Howell on August 18, 2010 9:06pm
Rebekah: Be sure to check on the ChoralNet, ADCA, and MENC websites. And try to track down the Carnegie Commission Report on the Schools from the latish '60s. I remember my parents--both music educators--quoting something like, "Schools must concentate on the basics, and the arts are basic."
All the best,
John
on August 19, 2010 7:37am
Rebekah,
John's advice is great. You are welcome to visit an article I wrote for the Westmont magazine at this link: http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/2009/03/20/better-minds-through-music. It is precisely the kind of persuasive piece that you are looking for. Also, here is brief bibliography that may be helpful. The studies cited are available on the MENC advocacy page found at this link: http://www.menc.org/resources/view/music-education-advocacy-central. The Levitin book is quite compelling.
“Involvement in the Arts and Human Development: General Involvement and Intensive Involvement in Music and Theater Arts.” by James S. Catterall, Richard Chapleau, and John Iwanga, from the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
"Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations," Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998
This Is Your Brain On Music, Daniel Levitin, Penguin Group, New York, 2006
ISBN 978-452-28852-2
An Intelligence View of Music Education, Dr. Arthur Harvey
University of Hawaii (Manoa), February 1997 issue of Leka Nu Hou, the Hawaiian Music Educators Association Bulletin
Very best of success with this, we are all in this together!
MIchael Shasberger
Westmont College
on August 20, 2010 3:03pm
Got to www.tmea.org and click on the "Resources" tab at the top - lots of music advocacy stuff there. Happy surfing!
Mary Jane Phillips
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