Critical Thinker
A critical thinker in music education is...
- Going beyond “surface learning” and interrogating taken-for-granted ideas, practices, and instructional and curricular materials as potentially problematic.
- Using principles of learning, inclusion, and caring as a framework for my critical thinking as an educator. I care enough about learners and the profession to question the status quo...and then do something about it.
Crane School of Music Joy Douglass Residency with Dr. Julie Eklund Koza
Dr. Julie Eklund Koza was in residence at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam as a visiting scholar in the Joy Douglass Visiting Master Teaching Program. Dr. Koza is a longtime advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion in music education; her keynote address, "The Charm of an Educated Woman: Thinking Intersectionally about Sexism and the Racial Contract"
provided insight into the idea of eugenics and sexism being highly prevalent in the modern schooling system. In the field of music education, we discussed ways in which the current schooling system is broken through traditions such as auditions, the annual NYSSMA solo festival, and lack of music outside of Western European classical music. We concluded that the system is indeed in need of reconstruction and ways to improve the music education curriculum moving forward. Here is where you can find my response to this residency.
Critical Thinking through Reevaluating Musical Notation
This listening map was created to assist students in recognizing the dimensions of beat and duration in "Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree." This listening map served as an outlet for expressing music, an aural art, in a concise, visual manner. More information on this lesson plan can be found here.
