EDF5168 Music education in the secondary years 2B

This unit further develops the understandings of some major teaching and learning methods and ideas useful in contemporary music education. It expands the knowledge and understandings developed in EDF5167 (Music education in the secondary years 2A). In particular, the unit explores the knowledge and skills inherent within major music methodologies such as Kodaly, Dalcroze and Orff, and the application of these new understandings to the secondary music classroom. You will be encouraged to share your past experiences in these methodologies and, in doing so, build a better understanding and basis for future practice as an educator. The practical aspects of school music programs will be explored through a research-based piece which evaluates a school instrumental program, underpinned by data gathered while on practicum. The unit employs a pedagogical approach that connects theoretical and experiential learning, understanding these embedded practices to be interrelated and interdependent. This experiential learning is furthered by your previous or current involvement in a musical production. The skills, knowledge and capacities you learn through your involvement in a musical production are applied to the real school musical experience when you lead your own students in the development of a school musical.