Quality Christian
Elementary Music Education
One of the problems that will often
confront the elementary music educator who is new on the job is the fact that a
Christian schools totally public relations oriented to the detriment of quality
music education. I am not saying that a
performance driven music program is a completely incorrect praxis. However, if public relations programs are the
tail that constantly wags the dog, quality music education will suffer.
One way
to evaluate the situation is to find out if October, November, and December are
completely taken up with producing a Christmas program and if February, March,
and April are totally consumed with producing an Easter program. No quality music education curriculum will be
able to survive six month of the nine month school year being swallowed with
two music programs. Elementary music
performance is important, but there is much more involved in educating children
musically than music and dramatic musical performances.
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