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II Colloquium: June 18 - 19, 1994:
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
"Theoretical Issues in Music Education"

Toronto is beautiful this time of year! David Elliott has invited us to stick around for the weekend after the International Philosophy Symposium in mid-June (the 18th & 19th) for MayDay II and here's hoping you can make it. Tom Regelski and I had a planning session a few weeks ago, and he has invited some of us to develop several topics, an idea for this year's MayDay Group that emerged from last year's discussions. Here are the topics, with some questions of mine based on Tom's [printed on the back in the original document, but since lost]:

METHODS - Does the traditional loyalty to method help or hinder progress (however defined) in our field? How do/should method and curriculum relate? To what extent should methods be critiqued on a research base?

RESEARCH - What is the research base for music teaching? To what extent is the research agenda in our field responsive to its problems? used to motivate inquiry? involved in teacher education? inclusive of research in related fields?

GENERATIVE PROCESSES - Is a catalog or typology possible? Does it provide guidance for teaching? curriculum construction? re-constructing society more musically? How do generative processes mesh with teacher accountability? learning assessment?

'MULTICULTURALISM' - To what extent is MC descriptive of basic values in our field? in British-Canadian-American societies? Can MC be institutionalized? Is MC simply PC, or is it central? Is MC a viable construct for connecting with the present, or is it a way to do history?

CONCEPTS - Where has the conceptual approach gotten us? Is teaching for understanding changing its meaning? What do newer theories of mind (cognitive science, AI, physics and psychoneurology, "flow" theories) suggest to designers of music curriculums? methods? teaching techniques? To what extent can measurable results of experiential approaches be parsed out?

We'll start at about 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 18 and plan to break up in mid-afternoon (about 3:00) on Sunday, June 19. David Elliott has a room for us in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music (Edw. Johnson Building) and there shall be signs unto ye as to particulars in that building.

Current MayDay Group members follow:

Harold F Abeles (Department of Music and Arts Education; Teachers College, Columbia University; New York, NY; USA 10027)

Wayne Bowman (Music Education Department; School of Music; Brandon University; Brandon, Manitoba; Canada R7A 6A9)

Richard Bunting (Crane School of Music; SUNY Potsdam; Potsdam, NY; USA 13676)

Richard J Colwell (12 Peacock Farm Road; Lexington, MA; USA 02215)

Robert Cutietta (School of Music; Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ, USA 85287)

Lyle Davidson (Graduate School of Education; Harvard University; 323 Longfellow Hall, Appian Way; Cambridge, MA; USA 02138)

David J Elliott (Faculty of Music; University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario; Canada M5S 1A1)

Roy Ernst (Eastman School of Music; University of Rochester; Rochester, NY; USA 14604)

Harold Fiske (Faculty of Music; University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7)

Charles B Fowler (320 Second Street SE; Washington, DC; USA 20003)

J Terry Gates (Department of Music; 220 Baird Hall; The University at Buffalo; Buffalo, NY; USA 14260)

Estelle Jorgensen (School of Music; Indiana University; Bloomington, IN; USA 47405)

John Kratus (Department of Music; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH; USA 44106)

Patrick McMullen (School of Music; SUNY Fredonia; Fredonia, NY; USA 14036)

Stephen J Paul (School of Music; University of Oklahoma; Norman, OK; USA 73019)

Thomas A Regelski (School of Music; SUNY Fredonia; Fredonia, NY; USA 14036)

Mary J Reichling (Music Department; University of Southwestern Louisiana; Lafayette, LA; USA)

Brian Roberts (Music Education Department; Memorial University of Newfoundland; St. John's, Newfoundland; Canada A1B 3X8)

Larry Scripp (Graduate School of Education; Harvard University; 323 Longfellow Hall, Appian Way; Cambridge, MA; USA 02138)

John Shepherd (Department of Music; Carleton University; Ottawa, Ontario; Canada KW 5B6)

Keith Swanwick (Music Department, Institute of Education; University of London; 20 Bedford Way; London, England WC1H 0AL)