{"id":48,"date":"2023-09-06T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/musc300draft\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:01:27","slug":"philosophy-of-music-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/philosophy-of-music-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of Music Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The purpose of music education is to enrich the lives of children by exposing them to music of different cultures and introducing  new ways of processing information.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-84179f4f-1b61-4c3f-b19e-5aaf6bd6b6d7\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/My-Educational-Philosophy.docx\">My-Educational-Philosophy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/My-Educational-Philosophy.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-84179f4f-1b61-4c3f-b19e-5aaf6bd6b6d7\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-93227a8f-9e98-4c1f-a4b7-75919280a61e\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Philosophy-of-Elementary-Music-Education.docx\">Philosophy-of-Elementary-Music-Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Philosophy-of-Elementary-Music-Education.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-93227a8f-9e98-4c1f-a4b7-75919280a61e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>  We live in a diverse world- growing up many children start out in a small world but through education, in particular the arts. Cultural sensitivity is cultivated through the appreciation of various forms and genres of music from a variety of cultures. In addition to this, teaching them a new creative skill set with which to express themselves can have a significant positive influence on their lives: giving them the appreciation for a healthy coping mechanism as well as forming enduring friendships with their fellow budding musicians. This also fosters the ability to work in a cohesive group and cultivates the awareness of still being an individual in a larger functioning body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><br>  Please feel free to download and read my Educational Philosophies. I was fortunate that during my coursework at Old Dominion University I had many opportunities to start and refine different teaching philosophies- please reach out to me for any clarification or questions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of music education is to enrich the lives of children by exposing them to music of different cultures and introducing new ways of processing information. We live in a diverse world- growing up many children start out in a small world but through education, in particular the arts. Cultural sensitivity is cultivated through&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/philosophy-of-music-education\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27422,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}