Smithsonian Folkways Certificate Course in World Music Pedagogy
Celebrating Global and Local Music Culture
June 16-19, 2025
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Celebrating Global and Local Music Culture
June 16-19, 2025
Join music educators, ethnomusicologists, and guest artists for this year’s in-person professional development course celebrating local and global culture. Participants will engage with music in daily workshops featuring music traditions of Appalachia, West Africa, Northeast Brazil, and Trinidad.
Principles and practices of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) will be at the center of demonstrations and conversations throughout the course with attention to promoting culturally sensitive, diverse, and inclusive music curricula in K-12, university, and community music settings. Participants will explore Smithsonian Folkways’ rich ethnographic, audio, film, and print archives and draw deeper connections to the vibrant cultures in their classrooms and communities.
Applications of WMP for K-12 and university classrooms will be illustrated with examples from Routledge’s new World Music Pedagogy series and highlighted in participants’ projects featuring SFR archival materials and dimensions of World Music Pedagogy.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive documentation of 30 clock hours and a certificate from Smithsonian Folkways for specialized study in world music pedagogy. Teachers needing course credit can register for additional non-degree graduate credit through WVU Online Professional Development.
Contact Janet Robbins at janet.robbins@mail.wvu.edu.
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