Music Education with Digital Technology [Paperback]

This book draws together a range of innovative practices, underpinned by theoretical insight, to clarify musical practices of relevance to the changing nature of schooling and the transformation of music education and addresses a pressing need to provide new ways of thinking about the application of music and technology in schools. The contributors covers a diverse and wide-range of technology, environments and contexts on topics that demonstrate and recognize new possibilities for innovative work in education, exploring teaching strategies and approaches that stimulate different forms of musical experience, meaningful engagement, musical learning, creativity and teacher-learner interactions, responses, monitoring and assessment.

Series Foreword \ Acknowledgements \ Introduction\ Part I: Changing Identities \ 1. Music Education as Identity Project in aWorld of Electronic Desires John Finney \ 2. Perspectives from a New GenerationSecondary School Music Teacher Hannah Quinn \ 3. The Gender Factor: TeachingComposition in Music Technology Lessons to Boys and Girls in Year 9 Louise Cooper\ 4. Finding Flow through Music Technology Serena Croft \ 5. The Mobile Phoneand Class Music: A Teacher's Perspective Alex Baxter \ Part II: ResearchingDigital Classrooms \ 6. The DJ Factor: Teaching Performance and Compositionfrom Back to Front Mike Challis \ 7. Composing with Graphical Technologies:Representations, Manipulations and Affordances Kevin Jennings \ 8. NetworkedImprovisational Musical Environments: Learning through On-line CollaborativeMusic Making Andrew R. Brown and Steven Dillon \ 9. Music e-LearningEnvironments: Young People, Composing and the Internet Frederick A. Seddon \ 10.Current and Future Practices: Embedding Collaborative Music Technologies in SecondarySchools Teresa Dillon \ Part III: Strategies for Change \ 11. Strategies forSupporting Music Learning through On-line Collaborative Technologies S. AlexRuthmann \ 12. Pedagogical Strategies for Change lC