Special Needs Community Music and Adult Learning

<em>Special Needs Community Music and Adult Learning</em> is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers students and scholars of music education as well as educational administrators and policy makers this fourth book in the set focuses on issues and topics that help to broaden conceptions of music and musical involvement while recognizing that development occurs through many forms. <p/>The first section addresses music education for those with special abilities and special needs; authors explore many of the pertinent issues that can promote or hinder learners who share characteristics and delve deep into what it means to be musical. The second section of the volume addresses music as a shared community experience and the diverse and constantly evolving international practice of community music. The chapters in the third section provide evidence that the process of music education exists as a lifelong continuum that encompasses informal formal and non-formal methods alike. The authors encourage music educators to think in terms of a music learning society where adult education is not peripheral to the priority of other age groups but is instead fully integral to a vision for the good of society. By developing sound pedagogical approaches that are tailored to take account of all learners the volume endeavors to move from making individual adaptations towards designing sensitive 'universal' solutions. <p/>Contributors<br>Carlos R. Abril Mary Adamek Kenneth S. Aigen Chelcy Bowles Mary L. Cohen William M. Dabback Alice-Ann Darrow John Drummond Cochavit Elefant David J. Elliott Lee Higgins Valentina Iadeluca Judith A. Jellison Janet L. Jensen Patrick M. Jones Jody L. Kerchner Thomas W. Langston Andreas C. Lehmann Katrina McFerran Gary E. McPherson David Myers Adam Ockelford Helen Phelan Andrea Sangiorgio Laya H. Silber Marissa Silverman Rineke Smilde David S. Smith Kari K. Veblen Janice Waldron Graham F. Welch<br>