DJE

So, after today's conversation and in preparation for gearing up for tomorrow's presentation on my favorite Canadian music educator, I will bring up some thoughts I have on DJE (er, David J. Elliott).

There are sometimes when I think DJE is a proponent of the basis of critical pedagogy, but then at other times he seems like he thinks critical ped is CRAP. He views the teacher as facilitator in a performance-based classroom--he even calls her a coach. And the student is seen as an apprentice to the teacher to learn how to make music (music fundamentals). But he speaks nothing of dialogue bewteen teacher and student, and nothing of the teacher gaining anything from the student (i.e. learning through "musicing").

I'm so looking forward to tackling this dichotomy of pedagogies tomorrow and if/how they complement each other harmoniously through the presentation.

Rock On, Pals.