Best Practices in Graduate Education At Western

At Western, we believe that best practices in graduate education require the development of healthy and productive working relationships between supervisors and graduate students. This document provides important information for both graduate supervisors and students and is intended to support the development of that productive working relationship. Graduate students and supervisors are encouraged to read the contents carefully and to use the suggestions provided below as you begin and progress throughout your graduate journey together.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/tsc-purple-guides/1007/thumbnail.jp

From Sea to Sea: Perspectives on Music Education in Canada

This book was edited by Dr. Kari Veblen and Dr. Carol Beynon with assistance of Stephanie Horsley, Uresha DeAlwiss, and André Heywood. It was previously housed by the Coalition for Music Education at www.musicmakesus.ca and by Andre Heywood at alheywood.110mb.com/ebook/. This version of the book contains all of the material from the previous two sites, as well as an updated chapter summarizing the content of its companion print book, which will be available through Wilfred Laurier University Press (2012).https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/musiceducationebooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Critical Perspectives in Canadian Music Education

Music education in Canada is a vast enterprise that encompasses teaching and learning in thousands of public and private schools, community groups, and colleges and universities. It involves participants from infancy to the elderly in formal and informal settings. Nevertheless, as post-secondary faculties of music and programs are growing significantly, academic books and materials grounded in a Canadian perspective are scarce. This book attempts to fill that need by offering a collection of essays that look critically at various global issues in music education from a Canadian perspective. Topics range from a discussion of the roots of music education in Canada and analysis of music education practices across the country to perspectives on popular music, distance education, technology, gender, globalization, Indigenous traditions, and community music in music education. Foreword by composer R. Murray Schafer. (From online book description

Tuning into the Future: Informal Learning and Music Education

When adolescents are engaged in learning, research has shown a decrease in alcohol and drug use, higher retention rates and fewer failures throughout high school, lower rates of depression as well as lower rates of anti-social and criminal behaviours. Attention to student engagement with a priority on 21st century learning skills requires the examination of various pedagogies, including using informal learning practices as the foundation for instruction with adolescents in schools. This pilot project targets Grade 7 to 10 students in two school settings where adolescent engagement is a priority; it examines the viability of implementing informal learning practices within the Canadian context