Using World Music to create a Culturally Responsive Classroom
Session Abstract: This session will look at the benefits of world music usage as a means to promote unity, explore and celebrate diversity, and engage all students. The eight tenants of Culturally Responsive Teaching, as well as the three networks of learning from Universal Design for Learning will be used to explore how to use culture, text, current events, and musical elements to establish cross-cultural appreciations that lead to a stronger sense of community in the classroom and beyond, while presenting material in a pedagogical manner that meets all learners needs in the classroom.
Stefanie Cash
Berry College
Stefanie Cash is Director of Music Education at Berry College. Cash is responsible for teaching methods and techniques classes, conducting the Berry Women’s Choir as well as supervising student teachers. Cash’s research interests include world music usage in choral ensembles, movement in the choral rehearsal to enhance learning, and partnerships between music education programs and public schools. Cash received her Ph.D. in Music Education from Florida State University, M.M. from the University of Kentucky and B.M.E. from Morehead State University.
