E518: Foundations of Music Education.  3 cr., TR 10.10A-12.05P, M149C.
Sect. 8073.

This seminar, led by Professor Estelle Jorgensen, is ideal for
graduate students wanting to think about the basis for teaching music
in schools, studios, churches, colleges and universities.  Among the
important questions at the heart of music education: What are the
historical roots of American music education?  What is the story of
its development from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first
century?  What is music education?  What is the nature of education?
Why and how is education related to freedom?  What is the nature of
teaching?  What is the nature of art?  What is the nature of music
making?  How do people learn music?  How do people make musical
meaning?  The course is project-based and focuses on selected readings
that address these and other questions.  Copies of the course syllabus
are also available.  For further information on this course, contact
Prof. Jorgensen at jorgense@indiana.edu 
or by phone at 5-4430.