Models of Music Pedagogy and Their Influences on Technology-Based Music Instruction

Abstract

This chapter contains brief overviews of several existing models of music pedagogy: Orff-Schulwerk, the Kodály approach, the Suzuki method, Music Learning Theory (MLT), and Dalcroze eurhythmics. The chapter synthesizes descriptions of these approaches into a set of shared features, which serve to establish a framework for examining thinking about music instruction. Each of these approaches includes musical goals, instructional and learning objectives, values, suggestions or mandates for particular materials, instructional sequences, teaching behaviors, and methods of assessment. Viewing these models of music pedagogy as a whole leads to the construction of the approach described in this book called Technology-Based Music Instruction.