Author: Music Educators Journal

Publication Year: 1973

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Abstract:

This special issue, then, is for four types of readers:

1. Those who are involved in open classrooms and need more information on how to function effectively within them.
   
   
2. Those who are perhaps conducting what they think are open classrooms (but are not) - who have been misled as to what open education is and are wondering why things aren't working as they expected.
   
   
3. Those who are not involved in open classrooms and probably have no intention or prospect of teaching in them, but who can possibly learn much from the movement that would improve their work in traditional schools.
   
   
4. Those who are really turned on by open education, believe it is the answer to education's ills, and need to realize that it is but one alternative that, like any other alternative, should not be imposed on all as a blueprint for success. There is no one formula for any type of successful education, just as there is no one formula for a successful open approach. (p. 5)

CONTENTS
Articles:
     Open education: Where is it now? Where is it heading? by Vincent R. Rogers.
     First we start with some different assumptions by Roland S. Barth.
     A time and thought line.
     Involvement and integration by Marie J. Westervelt.
     Music cannot be locked in a closet by Keith P. Thompson.
     Four case studies.
          Campus Laboratory School, Cortland, New York by Virginia F. Springer.
          Grape Street Elementary School, Los Angeles by Carrie A. Haynes.
          Olive School, Arlington Heights, Illinois by Kathy Rausch.
          Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts by Barbara Kunhardt.
     No longer just a knowledge-pusher by Charles H. Rathbone.
     Drums and Dumpsters, Puppets and Pods by Helen Lotin Cornell.
     Strategies for Opening the Traditional Classroom by Joseph W. Landon.
     The Bat'Poet knows by Eleanor Duckworth.
     Preparing music teachers for open education by Bernard Spodek.
     Open Education places the arts in the core of the curriculum by Annette R.
     Guenther.
     The literature of open education.

Departments:
     Overtones.
     Summer study 1974.
     Awards and competitions.
     Book reviews.
     Bulletin Board.
     MENC news.
     Advertisers index.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education