Elise S. Sobol: Approach for Teaching Music to Diverse Learners, Gebunden

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This is an essential neuro-inclusive resource for teaching music to diverse learners. Internationally renowned and pioneering music educator, Elise S. Sobol, presents current trends in research, policy, and practice, while sharing her experience and joy of music.

Designed as a text for pre-service teacher preparation courses, this edition offers a wider scope helpful to teachers in different school and community settings. While focusing on inclusive music education and its cross curricular connections, the fourth edition features:

-An improved structured, reader-friendly format, new graphics, end-of-chapter summaries, and discussion questions; -New disability language etiquette usage shaped by the United States civil rights and educational laws; -Eligibility categories for identifying students needing special education with latest report on implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) across the United States, each state, district, and territory; -The author's conceptual framework for music assisted learning, examples of contextual teaching through universal design for learning (UDL), distinctive classroom music and literacy activities, and student success stories; -The National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) and progress on state adoptions and revisions; references and links to the U. S. Department of Education, each of its affiliates, offices for arts implementation, special education, access and equity services.

With the fourth edition's wider scope, new features, resources, and dedication to culturally relevant and sustaining music teaching practices, music educators and students will find this an indispensable book for information, insight, and inspiration on the topic.