FoundationsFinalProject

Foundations of Music Education

Final Project

Your Final Project will be in three parts:

Your Assignment #7 will be a paper on one of the topics listed below.
After you write the paper, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation on that topic (Assignment #8).
These PowerPoints will be published for the others in your class to view and critique during the last week of the class.

Please choose one of the topics below:

CEMREL

The Cognitive Properties of Music

Contemporary Music Project

Current Topics in Music Teacher Preparation

The Educational Value of Popular Music

Four Educational Methodologies: Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly, Gordon

The Influence of Religion in Public School Music Education

Is Secondary Music Education Elitist?

Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project

The Pestalozzian Philosophy of Music Education

Praxis Music Education

The Purposes of Music

Tanglewood Symposium and the "Go" Project

Testing Musical Aptitude

World Musics in Music Education

Research Paper Content

	Format in Chicago style (parenthetical citations)
	Cover your topic thoroughly.
	Research your topic. Justify any conclusions. Opinions should be absent or kept to a minimum.
	Write for clarity. You will understand your topic better than your classmates. When get ready to make your PowerPoint, you must synthesize your information even further, so make sure you understand the basics of your topic.
	Proof-read your paper for punctuation, syntax, spelling, and grammar.
	Paper should be 5 to 7 pages in length, excluding the bibliography
	One inch margins, double-spaced, 12 point font
	Works cited bibliography at the end.

PowerPoint Content

	Depending upon how much text is on each slide, you should probably have 15-20 slides. However, more slides with less text per slide is the preferred default.
	Feel free to use graphics and photos on your slides. Your presentation is a learning tool for the rest of us. Don't put us to sleep!
	Remember that you must convey your meaning entirely through the PowerPoint, since your classmates will not be able to read your paper.
	Proof-read your slides for punctuation, syntax, spelling, and grammar.

General PowerPoint Tips

	Don't choose a background that fights your content. In other words, text should be plain and readable.
	Make sure the photos or graphics you choose are not fuzzy or "pixelly" when sized to your choice.
	Don't use a lot of animation - words and pictures flying in and out. A little of that goes a long way. A little is interesting. A lot is distracting and annoying.

PowerPoint Critique

	Look above under "PowerPoint Content". Did your classmates follow those guidelines?
	Was the PowerPoint easy to navigate?
	Did you learn something?
	Did he/she cover the topic sufficiently so that you were thoroughly informed?
	Was the text written in a scholarly manner?

Critiquing Tips

	Don't just say "good job!"
	Pretend that your friend has asked you to look over this presentation before showing it to his/her boss. Your role is to help make it as good as possible.
	Be specific. For example, refer to specific slides as in "In slide #7, you used 'their' instead of 'there'."
	If you were confused or felt that you were missing something when reading a slide, that is a sign that more explanation was needed or that something needed to be stated more clearly. If you had to read a slide more than once to 'get it,' you should ask yourself why.

RESOURCES

Oxford English Dictionary

TSU Library

Oxford Music Online

JSTOR

EBSCO

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

World Cat

Home Syllabus Links

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