Filling in the Gaps- What ALL Music Ed Theories Miss

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Recently, I went to share some thoughts with a meeting of the Kodaly Educators of Texas at Magnolia High School. Shout out to Thea Persinger for the invite! This is the audio AND video version of my "Filling in the Gaps" presentation. It is based on the premise that all music education or pedagogical theories have important insights. But, of course, they all miss something. This is my attempt to fill in one of our most common music ed gaps: The Science of Reading, and how it can inform our pedagogy if COMBINED with Kodaly, Edwin Gordon, Curwen and the others.

Most popular music education theories were generated during, and draw on practices of a time when music education was almost entirely practiced on the privileged and/or kids that showed high musical aptitude at a young age. Almost any theory of music education works if you pre-select for talent in advance…

We know SO much more than we did 50 years ago about the brain and the most impactful ways to maximize its function. This presentation provides IMPORTANT context to supplement episode 219 on the importance of individual assessment, and 220 with Dr. Anita Collins, expert researcher on music and the brain.

As always, the slides to this presentation and all of my past ones, are in the shared Google folder!

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