Integrated Music Education

Schools are generally oriented towards discipline-based programmes and therefore students often accumulate fragmented knowledge, disconnected from real life concerns. The eighteen contributors to this work suggest that music offers a highway to developing a more appropriate integrated education. They present a range of views on Integrated Music Education rooted in various cultural traditions, based on several interdisciplinary models and integrated arts curricula, inspired by psychological concepts and referenced to recent teaching experiments as well as original research. In this innovative book, the reader is invited to go beyond the dichotomy between education in music and education through music, exploring the opportunities put forward by Integrated Music Education thanks to a constant movement from the theoretical roots through a precise description of teaching activities to the benefits for students in terms of integration of knowledge, personal development, and social and cultural belonging. Lastly, there are some new and interesting ideas for training teachers. Ausgehend von einer Reihe kultureller Traditionen, interdisziplinren oder integrierten knstlerischen Anstzen, psychologischen Konzepten sowie originren Erfahrungen und Forschungen, stellen die Autoren dieses Buches den Reichtum einer integrierten Musikpdagogik fr die schulische Bildung vor und reflektieren, wie Lehrpersonen fr diese Herausforderung qualifiziert werden knnen. Jedes Kapitel enthlt eine Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache. Se basant sur certaines traditions culturelles, sur des approches interdisciplinaires ou dintgration des arts, sur des concepts issus de la psychologie ou encore sur des expriences et recherches originales, les contributeurs de cet ouvrage exposent les richesses dune ducation intgre de la musique en milieu scolaire et rflchissent la manire de former les enseignants pour relever ce dfi. Chaque chapitre dispose dun rsum en franais. "Overall, Integrated music education makes an important contribution to this emerging field both in terms of theory and practice to help educators and researchers reflect on and promote the possibilities of integrated learning and through music within varied 21st century school systems and the books publication is one that all contributors can feel proud of having achieved." (Dr. Karen Ludke, in DIDACTICAE, 8 (2020), pp. 213-216)