About

This book offers fresh insight, information, and understanding that challenge certain assumptions about children and how we teach them.

Each essay is designed to initiate thinking and reflection as a two-way dialogue between you and the text.

As you read, respond, comment, and question. Study. Talk to yourself. Make notes. Write in the margins. Discuss with colleagues. Explore ideas. Experiment with activities.

Share your thoughts and experiences here on the companion website!

Essays

Knowing the Children We Teach: Essays on Music Learning features interconnected essays as chapters:

Prologue

Essay 1: Born to Be Good

Essay 2: Music and the Aesthetics of Care

Essay 3: What Children Need

Essay 4: Music and the Spiritual Child

Essay 5: Children’s Play with Music

Essay 6: Wonder-filled Knowing and Learning

Essay 7: Knowing Those Who Teach

Essay 8: Toward a Pedaogy of Hope

Afterword