I am taking a course right now through Boston University for my Masters in Music Education. The course I'm taking is Foundations of Music Education: History and Philosophy. For some reason, I preferred the Foundations of Music Education: Psychology and Sociology course I previously took. Oh well, that's besides the point.
For my course, this week we're addressing ethics in music education. Quite an interesting topic, I do have to say. I'm about half way through the reading for the week.
Friday evening I have to take part in a live online debate with other classmates. As part of this debate, I have to argue AGAINST the following statement:
"Music educators have a professional and ethic obligation to teach for social justice, including teaching for equal treatment based on class, race, gender, and sexuality. Teaching music is not enough."
This is going to be a difficult assignment as I personally AGREE with this statement.
As this group is comprised of other arts educators, what are your thoughts?
Kristin
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Confounded spelling
I have an admission.
I am forgetting how to spell. Seriously. I think it is a real problem. I write (pen to paper) so seldom that I have lost my ability to correct my own spelling. I am dependent on spell check and that wonderfully informative dotted red line that appears to alert me of my spelling foibles.
Interesting also that i know how to spell foible but just yesterday had the darndest time spelling "editing". Here are my retrospective attempts. edditing, editting, edditting. Yes, I went through them all before I finally typed editing and that damn red line finally disappeared. There is another one disappeared. I am so irritated by double consonants. I expect them to be everywhere they aren't and forget them everywhere they should be.
But that is with the help of a computer. When I hand write I am absolutely hopeless. This is particularly embarrassing when writing on the board in my classes. I realized that being a visual learner (spatial more than verbal), I have come to rely on the typed appearance of a word to know if its spelling is correct. For instance when I type embarased I realize that the 'shape' of the word is wrong, too short. And therefore, I recall that it should be embarrassed. It looks right from a design perspective. But, I have so long ago given up hand writing on a daily (large scale) level that I can't remember how the design of my hand written words look.
Also, the rhythm of a word. Hand writing slows me down to the point that I can't imagine there being THAT many letters in a given word. it just takes TOO LONG to get it down on the paper. Commencement, for instance, when written long hand fills up half a line! I have trained my brain out of spelling. Instead I use the physical, spatial and rhythmic memory of typing, which I can't seem to recreate with a pen in my hand.
I don't want to think I need to practice my spelling just to write a hand written note off the cuff. But it seems, I do. Or, I could just give up on hand writing all together because using my smart phone to look up words mid-sentence just sucks. And, I won't do it.
Sigh.
PS If address is spelled with two d's, then I think "addmission" should as well. Just sayin'.
I am forgetting how to spell. Seriously. I think it is a real problem. I write (pen to paper) so seldom that I have lost my ability to correct my own spelling. I am dependent on spell check and that wonderfully informative dotted red line that appears to alert me of my spelling foibles.
Interesting also that i know how to spell foible but just yesterday had the darndest time spelling "editing". Here are my retrospective attempts. edditing, editting, edditting. Yes, I went through them all before I finally typed editing and that damn red line finally disappeared. There is another one disappeared. I am so irritated by double consonants. I expect them to be everywhere they aren't and forget them everywhere they should be.
But that is with the help of a computer. When I hand write I am absolutely hopeless. This is particularly embarrassing when writing on the board in my classes. I realized that being a visual learner (spatial more than verbal), I have come to rely on the typed appearance of a word to know if its spelling is correct. For instance when I type embarased I realize that the 'shape' of the word is wrong, too short. And therefore, I recall that it should be embarrassed. It looks right from a design perspective. But, I have so long ago given up hand writing on a daily (large scale) level that I can't remember how the design of my hand written words look.
Also, the rhythm of a word. Hand writing slows me down to the point that I can't imagine there being THAT many letters in a given word. it just takes TOO LONG to get it down on the paper. Commencement, for instance, when written long hand fills up half a line! I have trained my brain out of spelling. Instead I use the physical, spatial and rhythmic memory of typing, which I can't seem to recreate with a pen in my hand.
I don't want to think I need to practice my spelling just to write a hand written note off the cuff. But it seems, I do. Or, I could just give up on hand writing all together because using my smart phone to look up words mid-sentence just sucks. And, I won't do it.
Sigh.
PS If address is spelled with two d's, then I think "addmission" should as well. Just sayin'.
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