This pioneering book reveals how the music classroom can draw upon the world of popular
musicians' informal learning practices, so as to recognize and foster a range of musical skills …

Facing the Music investigates the practices and ideas that have grown from some five
decades of cultural diversity in music education, developments in ethnomusicology, and the …

This book provides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on
the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding …

Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in
designing, initiating, executing and evaluating community music practices. Designed for …

ABSTRACT In 2015, the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Education mandated that local
Indigenous knowledge, pedagogy, and worldviews be embedded in all K-12 curricula, but …

Background: Enhancing quality of life (QOL) of older adults is an international area of focus.
Identifying factors and experiences that contribute to QOL of older adults helps promote …

In this article, we argue that the musical schooling of immigrant students could be seen as
forming a healthy test for any educational context in terms of how democracy is enacted. We …

This article will review the themes found in the literature on eudaimonia: ethical behaviour, a
sense of meaning and purpose, autonomy–being able to make wise decisions and manage …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the current state of knowledge about the
links–metaphorical and real–between cultural and biological diversity. Design/methodology …

With the unprecedented meeting, mixing, and recontextualizing of cultures across the globe
over the past 50 years arises a need for conceptualizing and organizing music education in …