David Bower

Constructivism in Music Education Technology

Creating an Environment for Choral Composition in the Upper Elementary School Grades

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the inner transformation of the
teacher
throughout a sixteen-week composition project using
computer
technology with fourth and fifth-grade music
students. Approached
from a phenomenological perspective, this research
engages
constructivist philosophy through an action research
method aimed
at examining the critically reflective music educator.
The main open questions this research addresses
surround how the
integration of music education computer software
applications like
Morton Subotnick s Making Music, Creating Music,
Music Ace I and
Music Ace II can be used in the creation of teaching
environments
designed to develop critically reflective music
makers who engage
synthesis, evaluation and critical reflection in
their cognitive
processes. This research explores how the
implementation of such
representative computer applications can assist in
the development
of teaching strategies designed to lead students to
compose a text-
based choral composition, an essential element of a
general/choral
curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639158427
• ISBN-10: 3639158423
• Artikelnr.: 26487996

Autorenporträt

David Bower earned his PhD from New York University in 2008. He
presents regularly
at academic conferences, including the International Society for
Music Education, and
has published articles in such venues as Visions of Research in
Music
Education. He serves as Director of Music and Organist at St.
Ann s in Raritan, New
Jersey.