A Teacher Resource Guide to Latinx Composers and Contexts Incorporating Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Unit Plans (CMP) and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Location
SU-216
Start Date
28-4-2023 9:20 AM
Department
Music and Dance
Abstract
Culturally relevant pedagogy echoes the significance of cultivating a sense of community through student centered strategies, putting cultural identity and diversity at the forefront of their education, and the philosophy that each student is successful in their own right. This research investigates the significance of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as it pertains to Latinx students and how to justify the academic need for Culturally Relevant music curriculum to education administrators. The purpose of this study is to generate a resource guide focusing on choral pieces within a Latinx context that highlight systems of oppression within the Latinx community. The following pieces were analyzed for this teacher resource guide: “No, Nos Moveran” found in the Social Justice Choir Songbook, “De Colores” arranged by Franscico J. Nuñez, “El Pueblo Unido” by Sergio Ortega and arranged by Gene Glickman, and “Ayudame” by Carlos Cordero. These four pieces have been analyzed through a sociohistorical, musical, and pedagogical lens using the Shaping Sound Musicians (O’Toole) Comprehensive Musicianship Project (CMP) Unit Plans. The pieces were assigned a difficulty level based on the rubric provided by the text, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume 1 (Buchanan et.al). These pieces were chosen because they serve as a vehicle for culturally relevant pedagogy, provide narrative insight to the inequities experienced in Latin America, culturally validate the Latinx experience, and will create conversations of social justice within the music classroom. This resource guide for educators aims to address and emphasize the Latinx experience through a lens of social justice that will build musicianship through critical thinking of culturally relevant repertoire.
Faculty Sponsor
Christopher Owen, Northeastern Illinois University
A Teacher Resource Guide to Latinx Composers and Contexts Incorporating Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance Unit Plans (CMP) and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
SU-216
Culturally relevant pedagogy echoes the significance of cultivating a sense of community through student centered strategies, putting cultural identity and diversity at the forefront of their education, and the philosophy that each student is successful in their own right. This research investigates the significance of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as it pertains to Latinx students and how to justify the academic need for Culturally Relevant music curriculum to education administrators. The purpose of this study is to generate a resource guide focusing on choral pieces within a Latinx context that highlight systems of oppression within the Latinx community. The following pieces were analyzed for this teacher resource guide: “No, Nos Moveran” found in the Social Justice Choir Songbook, “De Colores” arranged by Franscico J. Nuñez, “El Pueblo Unido” by Sergio Ortega and arranged by Gene Glickman, and “Ayudame” by Carlos Cordero. These four pieces have been analyzed through a sociohistorical, musical, and pedagogical lens using the Shaping Sound Musicians (O’Toole) Comprehensive Musicianship Project (CMP) Unit Plans. The pieces were assigned a difficulty level based on the rubric provided by the text, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume 1 (Buchanan et.al). These pieces were chosen because they serve as a vehicle for culturally relevant pedagogy, provide narrative insight to the inequities experienced in Latin America, culturally validate the Latinx experience, and will create conversations of social justice within the music classroom. This resource guide for educators aims to address and emphasize the Latinx experience through a lens of social justice that will build musicianship through critical thinking of culturally relevant repertoire.