As a follow-up to The Shanghaiing of Arts Education, I am happy to direct you to a very interesting blog by Yong Zhao: "It Makes No Sense," Puzzling Over Obama's State of the Union Address.It's a very important read, as it tackles the emerging mythology on how China goes about educating its students:Is it true that "China and India started educating their children earlier and … [Read more...] about The Shanghaiing of Arts Education Part Two: All is Not What Meets The Eye
Archives for February 2011
How I Learned to Love Steve Reich: Quality in Arts, and Arts Education
It happened again the other day: an assistant principal I know asked me about a conversation she had with one her music teachers. The conversation focused on whether or not a particular artist that the assistant principal was fond of was an artist of quality. The music teacher didn't think so. It was cause for the assistant principal to wonder who own and defines quality in the … [Read more...] about How I Learned to Love Steve Reich: Quality in Arts, and Arts Education
Not So Fast Chairman Rocco: Arts Education Has A Marketplace Too
Okay, everyone is all abuzz about NEA (as in arts endowment, not the National Education Association) Chairman Rocco Landesman raising the issue in a recent blog of there being too much supply for the demand. In other words: there are too many arts organizations in America.It's tough to argue that point. I am just not quite sure what to do with it. Besides letting the … [Read more...] about Not So Fast Chairman Rocco: Arts Education Has A Marketplace Too
More on Belinda Reynolds’s Manifesto: Where Art Thou Composition in Music Ed?
Those who know music education, know that for many years research has indicated that creative music making, meaning composition and improvisation, is taught at a distinctly lower frequency than other types of musical activities not centered in musical creation, but instead interpretation.So, as a a follow-up to Belinda Reynolds's Manifesto, I thought it would be interesting to … [Read more...] about More on Belinda Reynolds’s Manifesto: Where Art Thou Composition in Music Ed?
Sell It To Children: A Manifesto for Composers, by Belinda Reynolds
(And, I would add that this manifesto should extend well beyond composers...)Years back, when I was regularly involved in helping artists prepare for work in K-12 schools and the community, I often said that if they would be sensitive to how children were responding to the arts they were bringing to the classroom, that they would learn a great deal about how people respond to … [Read more...] about Sell It To Children: A Manifesto for Composers, by Belinda Reynolds