Music Moments to Teach Academics


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This text, designed for classroom teachers as well as music specialists, is a source book of activities and practical ideas to help teachers integrate music and movement into the curriculum to enhance learning. The introductory chapters illuminate conceptual teaching, fundamental movement pattern theory, and three approaches to integrating music as an intelligence: supplemental, cognitive and social-emotional. Remaining chapters are organized by subject including math, science, language arts, social studies, visual art and wellness. A 68-page resource section provides teachers with additional support for music experiences.




Brain-Compatible Dance Education 2nd Edition


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Anne Green Gilbert’s Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, strikes the perfect balance between hard science and practicality, making it an ideal resource for dance educators working with dancers of all ages and abilities. Gilbert presents the latest brain research and its implications for dance educators and dancers. She makes the research findings accessible and easy to digest, always connecting the science to the teaching and learning that takes place in classrooms and studios.




Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition


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This second edition of the classic text directs dance teachers through what they need to know to teach creative dance from pre-K through adult levels in a variety of settings. It includes a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, editable forms, and teacher strategies created by master teacher Anne Green Gilbert.




Class, Control, and Classical Music


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Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this text analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four 'articulations' or associations between the middle classes and classical music.




Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics


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This innovative ESL/EFL textbook helps advanced English language learners develop conversation skills and improve fluency by sharing experiences, reflecting on their lives, and discussing proverbs and quotations. The oral skills English textbook includes 45 thematic chapters, over 1,350 questions, 500 vocabulary words, 250 proverbs and American idioms, and 500 quotations. Designed for both adult education and intensive English language students, the conversations and activities deepen critical thinking skills and develop speaking skills essential to success in community college and university programs. Compelling Conversations has been used in classrooms in over 40 countries, recommended by English Teaching Professional magazine, adopted by conversation clubs and private English tutors, and enjoyed by thousands of English students.




Music for Dancers


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This text presents the elements and concepts of music through movement experiences and language. Using an inclusive teaching model, the musical elements are explored through multiple intelligences. The unique and beautiful illustrations provide a visual link for each concept. This book includes a chapter for each musical element as well as singing, listening and drumming, 28 lesson plans, sheet music, extensive resource lists and a conceptual discography.Two CD's are available with original compositions for singing, listening, and moving. These CD's are intended to accompany the conceptual approach presented in Music for Dancers.




Community Series: Towards a Meaningful Instrumental Music Education. Methods, Perspectives, and Challenges – Volume II


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Trying to understand the complex interplay between effective learning and personal experience is one of the main challenges for instrumental music education. Much of the research that focuses on effective learning outcomes often adopts experimental methodologies that do not allow for a thorough examination of the subjective and social processes that accompany each student's musical journey; on the contrary, contributions dedicated to the detailed analysis of the learners' lived experience often do not offer generalizable outcomes to different types of learning and teaching.




Hip Hop Headphones


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Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop. Defining Hip Hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of Hip Hop Culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), Hip Hop Headphones is the definitive guide to how Hip Hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.




Brain-compatible Dance Education


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This classic "must have" is NDA's most popular publication. Includes locomotor/nonlocomotor movement, assessment, and interdisciplinary topics.




Silent Moments in Education


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Colette A. Granger's highly original book considers moments in several areas of education in which silence may serve as both a response to difficulty and a means of working through it. The author, a teacher educator, presents narratives and other textual artefacts from her own experiences of learning and instruction. She analyses them from multiple perspectives to reveal how the qualities of education's silences can make them at once difficult to observe and challenging to think about. Silent Moments in Education combines autoethnography with psychoanalytic theory and critical discourse analysis in a unique consideration of the relations teachers and learners forge with knowledge, with ideas, and with one another. This provocative and thoughtful work invites scholars and educators to consider the multiple silences of participants in education, and to respond to them with generosity and compassion.