Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching is a textbook for studies in music education. It promote inquiry and reflection to facilitate teacher growth, lifelong learning, and a
disposition toward educational change. In recent history many initiatives have sought to define what music teachers should know and be able to do. Teacher educators have attempted to build on
such intiatives to structure and guide their programs. In these proposals the teachers's voice is often missing. This book ascribes to the notion of a personal orientation as a way to include,
amplify, and situate the future teacher in the center of learning to teach.
Every chapter includes a wealth of pedagogical features, including exercises and problems that apply key ideas and concepts, first-person narratives that illustrate how personal experience
influences thinking and action in teaching, summaries of relevant research studies in teacher education, and annotated reading lists.
