In my exploration of music education scholarly articles, I came across an article from the British Journal For Music Education titled "Music education - why bother", and decided to indulge and respond.
One of the largest points used throughout the text is the key differences music education has from other 'school' type activities, such as core classes and sports. While core classes and many sports are either individually based or competition based, music is fostered around cooperation in ensembles and concert settings.
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| A high school at the festival for music. |
In conclusion, music education is very important, encouraging cooperation in students, and keeping young minds active and working in new ways.
Braden,
ReplyDeleteThis was very interesting to me, especially because I am part of the education blog team! I did not realize the complexity of the brain while playing music, but I agree it makes music education very important. I wrote a blog a few weeks ago on university requirements and my beliefs on the changes that should be made. After reading this blog post, I think including a required music education class could be very interesting for students with specific related majors!