Constructivism in Music Education Technology

This book examines the inner transformation of the§teacher §throughout a sixteen-week composition project using§computer §technology with fourth and fifth-grade music§students. Approached §from a phenomenological perspective, this research§engages §constructivist philosophy through an action research§method aimed §at examining the critically reflective music educator.§The main open questions this research addresses§surround how the §integration of music education computer software§applications like §Morton Subotnick s Making Music, Creating Music,§Music Ace I and §Music Ace II can be used in the creation of teaching§environments §designed to develop critically reflective music§makers who engage §synthesis, evaluation and critical reflection in§their cognitive §processes. This research explores how the§implementation of such §representative computer applications can assist in§the development §of teaching strategies designed to lead students to§compose a text-§based choral composition, an essential element of a§general/choral §curriculum.