Taught by the Students: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Deep Engagement in Music Education

by Ruth Gurgel

Book Overview

Within public schools in the United States, students of color are truncating their music education experiences at higher rates than their white counterparts. Music educators have searched for explanations of this phenomenon as well as effective interventions, yet there has been little overall improvement of these statistics. Ruth Gurgel presents and analyzes the perspectives of eight students and their teacher in a pluralistic 7th grade choir classroom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475813392
• ISBN13: 9781475813395
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"