Keeping Music Education Christian Part 1

Keeping Music Education Christian Part 1

Christian educational institutions have an obligation to keep music education Christian education.  If they do not they cannot fulfill their mission.  If Christian elementary, secondary, and post secondary educational institutions are only different from secular institutions in that they sing and play religious music, they are not essentially  different from secular schools, colleges and universities. 

            A congruent understanding of the nature and value of music education at its deepest levels can do more than anything else to keep CME (Christian music education) essentially Christian.  As I have said many times in my philosophical writings, a series of systematic written beliefs concerning the nature and value of music that is carefully applied to an educational institution’s music praxis is necessary if music education is to remain Christian.

 All one has to do is to search for Christian Music Education Philosophy on the net to understand that many Christian educational institutions do not publicize their CMEP (Christian music education philosophy) up front on their websites.  I suppose that many of them do have written statements of music philosophy.  However, for some reason they do consider it important to make these statements easily available.