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With five newly written chapters and sizable additions to nine
original chapters, this second edition of Teaching Music in Higher
Education provides a welcome update to author Colleen M. Conway's
essential guide. In the book's new chapters, Conway offers insights
beyond music and cognition including gender identity, sexual
identity, and issues of cultural diversity not addressed in the
first edition. Conway also covers technology in instructional
settings and includes new references and updated student vignettes.
Designed for faculty and graduate assistants working with
undergraduate music majors as well as non-majors in colleges and
universities, the book is designed to fit within a typical 15-week
semester. The book's three sections address concerns about
undergraduate curricula that meet National Association of School of
Music requirements as well as teacher education requirements for
music education majors in most states. Part I includes chapters on
assessment and grading in music courses; understanding students'
cognitive, musical, and identity growth; and syllabus design. Part
II focuses on creating a culture for learning; instructional
strategies to facilitate active learning; and applied studio
teaching. Part III addresses growth in teaching practices for the
college music professor and focuses on the job search in higher
education, feedback from students, and navigating a career in
higher education. The book features highly useful templates
including a departmental assessment report, forms for student
midterm and final evaluation, a Faculty Activities Report for music
professors, and a tenure and promotion materials packet. Each of
the three sections of the book makes reference to relevant research
from the higher education or learning sciences literature as well
as suggestions for further reading in the various topic areas.
This practical guide covers the challenges faced by beginning music
teachers, district and state-sponsored mentoring and induction
programs, alternative certification, and ideas for ongoing
professional development. Based on the latest research, this book
includes first-person accounts written by beginning music teachers
and a state-by-state list of mentoring policies and programs.
Inspired by and engaging with the provocative and prolific work of
Stephen D. Moore, Bible and Theory showcases some of the most
current thinking emerging at the intersections of critical methods
with biblical texts. The result is a plurality of readings that
deconstruct customary disciplinary boundaries. These chapters,
written by a wide range of biblical scholars, collectively argue by
demonstration for the necessity and benefits of biblical criticism
inflected with queer theory, literary criticism, postmodernism,
cultural studies, and more. Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical
Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore invites the reader to
rethink what constitutes the Bible and to reconsider what we are
doing when we read and interpret it.
In the Hebrew Bible, Judges 4-5 tells the lurid story of the heroic
figure of Jael, a woman who seduces the Canaanite general Sisera
and then nails his head to the ground with a tent-peg, thus saving
Israel from the troops of King Sabin. This gruesome tale has long
intrigued scholars and artists alike. The many versions of the
story that have appeared in art and literature have repeatedly and
creatively built on the gendered themes of the tradition, often
seeing in the encounter between Jael and Sisera some fundamental
truth about the relationship between women and men. In Sex and
Slaughter in the Tent of Jael, Colleen Conway offers the first
sustained look at how this biblical tradition has been used
artistically to articulate and inform cultural debates about
gender. She traces the cultural retellings of this story in poems,
prints, paintings, plays, and narratives across many centuries,
beginning with its appearance in Judges 4-5 and continuing up to
the present day. Once separated from its original theological
context, the Jael/Sisera tradition becomes largely about gender
identity, particularly the conflict between the sexes. Conway
examines the ways in which Jael has been reimagined by turns as a
wily seductress, passionate lover, frustrated and bored mother,
peace-bringing earth goddess, and deadly cyborg assassin.
Meanwhile, Sisera variously plays the enemy general, the seduced
lover, the noble but tragically duped victim, and the violent male
chauvinist. Ultimately, Conway demonstrates that the ways in which
Jael's actions are explained and assessed all depend on when, by
whom, and for whom the Jael and Sisera story is being told. In
examining the varying artistic renditions of the story, this book
also provides a case study of the Bible's role as a common cultural
resource in secular western culture.
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