Learner-Centered Music Classroom

<p><em>The Learner-Centered Music Classroom:</em> <i>Models and Possibilities</i> is a resource for practicing music teachers providing them with practical ideas and lesson plans for implementing learner-centered pedagogical concepts into their music classrooms. The purpose of this book is to propose a variety of learner-centered models for music teaching and learning through the use of a variety of autoethnographic viewpoints. Nine contributors provide working and concrete examples of learner-centered models from their classrooms. Offering lesson plan ideas in each of these areas the contributors provide practical approaches for implementation of learner-centered approaches in music instruction across a variety of landscapes.</p><p>Learner-centered teaching provides an approach to music education that encourages social interactive culturally responsive creative peer-based open-formed facilitated and democratic learning. Chapter 1 defines the what why and perceived benefits of learner-centered approaches in music teaching and learning contexts Chapters 2-10 will include example lesson plans rubrics etc. as models for teachers. The contributors to this book suggest that learner-centered approaches when embedded into the culture and curricular framework of a music classroom offer exciting approaches for teaching music in ways that are culturally and educationally appropriate in contemporary education. </p>