The MayDay Group has adopted a new set of Action Ideals to lead our inquiry into how we engage with learning and teaching music in our local and global contexts. This year's colloquium considers:
ACTION IDEAL V
We commit to fostering ongoing engagement with fellow music educators of all traditions, seeking knowledge from disciplines other than music, and collaborating with practitioners of those disciplines.
We recognize that musicing takes place in a context created by the relationships that connect us to one another and to the myriad modes through which we construct knowledge. We embrace opportunities for insight and innovation presented by encounters with other disciplines in pursuit of meaningful musical action.
Presenters--better known as Provocateurs among the MayDay Group--are invited to address and/or problematize cross-disciplinary, multimodal, reflective, creative, and collaborative trends on local, national, and international levels that broaden the range of our professional general knowledge base. Over the past 25 years we have seen a myriad of research and philosophical contributions surrounding music learning and teaching that intersect with the fields of ethnomusicology, arts-based therapy, neuroscience, sociology, gender-sexuality studies, critical race theory, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and cultural psychology.
Presenters are encouraged to address issues and events by taking an interdisciplinary approach in their analyses of trends and perceived problems, by speaking as much to the wider university community and to the public as to our own specialty, and by recommending Action Plans that can broaden our thinking and support a more interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning music.
Questions that colloquium participants might consider:
Preparing Your Presentation
Paper presentations--better understood at MayDay Group Colloquia as provocations--are designed to provoke discussion. Each presenter will be allocated 50 minutes, to include no more than 30 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 20 minutes for discussion with colloquium participants. Audio visual equipment is available, but it is completely acceptable at our colloquia to not use supporting technology for your presentation.
ACTION IDEAL V
We commit to fostering ongoing engagement with fellow music educators of all traditions, seeking knowledge from disciplines other than music, and collaborating with practitioners of those disciplines.
We recognize that musicing takes place in a context created by the relationships that connect us to one another and to the myriad modes through which we construct knowledge. We embrace opportunities for insight and innovation presented by encounters with other disciplines in pursuit of meaningful musical action.
Presenters--better known as Provocateurs among the MayDay Group--are invited to address and/or problematize cross-disciplinary, multimodal, reflective, creative, and collaborative trends on local, national, and international levels that broaden the range of our professional general knowledge base. Over the past 25 years we have seen a myriad of research and philosophical contributions surrounding music learning and teaching that intersect with the fields of ethnomusicology, arts-based therapy, neuroscience, sociology, gender-sexuality studies, critical race theory, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and cultural psychology.
Presenters are encouraged to address issues and events by taking an interdisciplinary approach in their analyses of trends and perceived problems, by speaking as much to the wider university community and to the public as to our own specialty, and by recommending Action Plans that can broaden our thinking and support a more interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning music.
Questions that colloquium participants might consider:
- How can we broaden the range of our professional and general knowledge? From what disciplines should such a broadened knowledge base initially be drawn?
- As collaborative partners, how can we clearly and effectively share musical ways of knowing, being, and learning with people from other disciplines and communities?
- How can we nurture rational, reflective, effective, and creative personal teaching approaches that, at the same time, integrate new evidence with elements of positive traditional practices?
- What barriers exist that inhibit collaboration and co-construction of knowledge in music or beyond music? Why do they exist? How do these barriers operate? Who benefits from these barriers? Who is left out? How can these barriers be breached?
- What models exist that encourage collaboration and co-construction of knowledge? Why do they exist? How do these models operate? Who benefits from these models? Who are the stakeholders in such models?
- How do we learn music? How does music shape our learning? What role does music play in our development, both individually and socially? What do other disciplines know that can help us as musicians, learners, teachers, policy makers, and citizens?
- How can we, in our multiple roles as students, teachers, performers, and as members of professional organizations, certifying organizations, and accrediting agencies, support efforts to improve general education, citizenship, and critical inquiry skills?
- What are some of the personal, political, moral, and ethical challenges, difficulties, and dilemmas involved in interdisciplinary work? How might we work as agents of social change in schools, universities, and surrounding communities? How can we use music to do so?
- How might music educators better engage with their counterparts in other arts and humanities fields to build a stronger sense of community dedicated to the advancing of common interests and shared visions?
Preparing Your Presentation
Paper presentations--better understood at MayDay Group Colloquia as provocations--are designed to provoke discussion. Each presenter will be allocated 50 minutes, to include no more than 30 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 20 minutes for discussion with colloquium participants. Audio visual equipment is available, but it is completely acceptable at our colloquia to not use supporting technology for your presentation.