Join NNJOSA on Saturday, April 8, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) for a workshop with Dr. Martina Vasil! Being a well-informed music educator means understanding current music and how it can affect students (Rideout, 2005). Teachers who tap into the knowledge that students have of popular music and culture are exercising culturally relevant teaching, “a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes” (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Culturally relevant practices are an integral part of the Schulwerk approach, as Orff recommended that teachers bring content from students’ cultures into the classroom. This workshop will involve participants in a variety of lessons that fuse popular music with the Orff approach. Participants will consider ways to bring students’ preferred music into the their Orff-Schulwerk classrooms and the positive ways that culturally relevant pedagogy can influence their students’ learning.
WHEN: April 8, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
WHERE: Hunziker Hall (room 203)
REGISTRATION: visit our registration page for more info
Dr. Martina Vasil is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Orff Schulwerk and Dalcroze Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky. She teaches a graduate course, "Popular Music in Music Education and Music Therapy" and two undergraduate general music methods courses, where she covers ways to bring popular music and informal learning into K-12 general music. Her interest in using popular music in music education arose from her own difficulties teaching middle school general music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martina's research interests include integrating popular music and culture across disciplines, investigating ways that teachers integrate popular music and informal music learning practices into traditional K-12 music programs, and determining how to better prepare preservice music teachers to perform, create, and teach popular music in authentic ways.
WHEN: April 8, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
WHERE: Hunziker Hall (room 203)
REGISTRATION: visit our registration page for more info
Dr. Martina Vasil is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Orff Schulwerk and Dalcroze Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky. She teaches a graduate course, "Popular Music in Music Education and Music Therapy" and two undergraduate general music methods courses, where she covers ways to bring popular music and informal learning into K-12 general music. Her interest in using popular music in music education arose from her own difficulties teaching middle school general music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martina's research interests include integrating popular music and culture across disciplines, investigating ways that teachers integrate popular music and informal music learning practices into traditional K-12 music programs, and determining how to better prepare preservice music teachers to perform, create, and teach popular music in authentic ways.
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