In this episode, we ask and answer pedagogy questions in the spirit of becoming better teachers, sharing ideas, and best supporting students! Questions include:
I have great content but my students are drooling on themselves. What do I do?
It's 2025 and I'm embarrassed that my syllabus still has so many dead white male composers. (AKA I'm taking over this syllabus from someone else.) Where do I start to diversify my teaching? See below for resources! 🎉
I have a difficult relationship with a professor. What do I do?
I’m new to teaching and I’m feeling stressed and nervous. How do I start?
LINKS
Philip Ewell, "Music Theory's White Racial Frame," Spectrum 43.2, Fall 2021, pp. 324-29. Philip Ewell, "Race, Gender, and their Intersection in Music Theory," blog post, April 10,
Justin London, "What Should an Undergraduate Music Theory Curriculum Teach? (And,
Alas, What Most of the Time We Don’t)," in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory
Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020).
Melissa Hoag, "Putting the Music in 'Music Fundamentals,'" in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020).
Rachel Lumsden, "Enriching Classroom Discussions," in Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory, ed. Rachel Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin (Norton, 2018).
pedagogistas @ University of Oregon (we meet alternate Fridays at 12-2pm in the Jane Grant Room in Hendricks Hall)
Episode Song Credits
Intro/outro music: Vitamin String Quartet, "bad guy," (2020). Original by Billie Eilish (2019).
First brain break: Chappell Roan, "Pink Pony Club," (2023).
Second brain break: Doechii, "DENIAL IS A RIVER," (2024).
Opmerkingen