Mayday Ecolumns
Below are other blogs of interest that are connected to the Mayday Ecolumn site. You can visit them by clicking on the hyperlinks below.
Community Music in Action
Coordinator: Lee Higgins
Lee Higgins maintains a column on community music, both in schools (public and ‘community music schools’ of whatever name), and as social change.
Curriculum
Coordinator: Cathy Benedict
Cathy Benedict coordinates this column dealing with major issues and changes in curriculum and assessment facing music educators today. Theory and practice in these areas are especially central to the MDG Agenda (see Action Ideal 7) and can benefit from wider consideration by music educators.
Music, Equity, and Social Justice
Coordinator: Debbie Bradley
Deborah Bradley hosts this column which, to date, has involved information, a bibliography, and lively dialog about race and gender as aspects of social justice in music education and its practices–another aspect relevant to an ‘ethic’ of music teaching.
Rural Music Education
Coordinator: Vince Bates
Discussions in this ecolumn, coordinated by Vince Bates, will explore the unique and often-times challenging experience of teaching and learning music in rural schools. Rural music teachers and music teacher educators are especially invited to participate–all views are welcome.
Students for a Change
Coordinator: Carlos Rodriguez
Carlos Xavier Rodriguez coordinates this column devoted to student-generated discussion. Students are encouraged to read and react to the Action Ideals and other topics they encounter in their degree programs and in the teaching profession. Students are also encouraged to share research ideas and expertise with one another.
Policy in Music Education
Coordinator: Patrick M Jones
Patrick Jones coordinates this and dialogs dealing with policy in music education. Policy is at the core of decisions made regarding music education and all those engaged in the music education endeavor need to be familiar with both issues relating to policy and procedures for implementing and studying it. This column and related dialogs addresses both of them.
