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WORKSHOPS
Linda
Minty offers music workshops to groups of all ages,
and to educators and students in the Hastings and Prince Edward County
Board of Education.
Some
Titles of Past Presentations:
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"String
Quartet etc."
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"Integrating
Music into the Class Curriculum"
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"Making
Music and the Ontario Arts Curriculum, Grades 4, 5 and 6"
Music
in Public Education Today
(taken
from Linda Minty's "Integrating Music into the Class Curriculum")
For
the first time in the history of public education in
the United States, the
arts have been officially recognized as one of the subject areas necessary
for all children's basic education. If students are to fully
embrace the rich and diverse cultures of the world; if they are to live
up to their full cognitive potential; if they are to be prepared for
living and working in a technologically driven world; and if they are
to live a life, alive, and wide-awake to the possibilities yet to come,
this promise of the arts
as basic education must be realized. Research continues
to affirm what anyone who has seen a child engrossed in the creation
of his or her latest masterpiece has witnessed. The time has come for
a true renaissance of the arts in education. In Art as Experience, John
Dewey wrote of this unique ability of the arts to "break through the
crust of conventionalized and routine consciousness." Artists, he felt,
"have always been the real purveyors of news, for it is not the outward
happening in itself which is new, but the kindling by it of emotion,
perception and appreciation".
Copyright©Linda
Minty, 2001
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