... MayDay Colloquium XX

Connecting school music to the community, society, and life:
Curriculum, policies, and practices

Boston University School of Music - Boston, Massachusetts - June 5-8, 2008

MayDay Group Colloquium XX will focus on the reform of music education curriculum to emphasize tangible effects of school music classes on the present and future lives of music learners, communities, and society at large. A related, second topic of the colloquium will address policies and practices that inhibit and/or serve to connect music education in schools with active musical engagement in communities.

Contributors are invited to submit discussion-provoking research papers or policy statements concerning one of the following two topics:

1. Reform of music education curriculum for 'making a difference.'

For example:
o Re-envisioning school music classes to address music as social praxis
o The socially responsive and responsible school music curriculum
o School music and amateur music making for life
o The music student drop-out (while in school, after graduation): Reasons and remedies
o Music teacher education and music education curriculum: From teaching methods to students' lifetime musical engagement

2. Policies and practices for connecting school music to community music.

For example:
o From school music to music education in and for the community
o The school as a community music center
o Building bridges between school music, community music-making, and the private teacher
o Music teacher education and policy studies: Preparing teachers to effect change

Abstracts/proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to Patrick M Jones at pmjones@bu.edu by January 30, 2008. Proposals should assert how the paper topic falls within the colloquium themes and/or sub-themes. Abstracts of accepted papers will appear on the MayDay Group website before the colloquium begins.

Papers will be limited to 4500 words. Paper presentations will be limited strictly to no more than 30 minutes in order to provide plenty of opportunity for dialogue. Contributors are encouraged to submit their papers for publication in the MayDay Group's online journal, Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, or other leading journals.