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Discovering Voice through Song: What can be Learned?
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Music serves as a personal outlet for many African American artists who have captured their realities through song. This session uses adult learning theories to explore learning through musical voice.
Target Audience
The intended audience for this presentation is adult educators, especially those that are interested in new innovative instruction. Other target audience members would be music lovers, adult education students, music historians, historians, and educators or professionals that work in urban and diverse environments.
Learning Outcomes
Learners who attend this session will:
• Goal 1: gain additional perspectives on the messages that music conveys and its influences on listeners.
• Goal 2: gain insight on the role music serves as a voice for the realities of African Americans.
When participants leave this session they will be able to:
• Objective 1: identify adult learning theories and practices that apply to this area.
• Objective 2: assess how social influences construct environments and impact learning.
• Objective 3: identify ways that people learn from their experiences.
Session Description
The evolutional stories of African Americans can be found in music. From days of slavery until present, their musical stories have documented some of the major milestones in American history, telling of their realities, struggles, thoughts, decisions, and actions. Music has also served as a personal outlet for many African American artists who have captured their life experiences through song. This session acknowledges the marginalized voice of African Americans and how their realities are communicated through music and looks at how this is important in understanding the learning processes of African Americans. Understanding the learning experiences of African Americans can help in the teaching process of this ethnic group.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Porscha Jackson, Texas A&M University-TCALL
Work Title
Graduate Assistant