Reflecting on the Junior High Instrumental Music Curriculum in Alberta Through the Lens of the Tanglewood Declaration
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Abstract
In 1967, The Tanglewood Symposium was convened in the United States to address the multifaceted issues in music education. The discussion in the Symposium led to the creation of the Tanglewood Declaration, which includes eight statements of implications and recommendations for the music curriculum and has been considered a critical part of the music education profession. Although it was produced 56 years ago, the insight into pedagogical and curricular adjustments is still deemed to be needed in music classrooms across both the United States and Canada today, as the issues in music education in these two nations were found to be similar. In Alberta, the most recent junior high music curriculum was designed in 1988, 21 years after the announcement of the Tanglewood Declaration. This study investigated whether the ideas in the Tanglewood Declaration have permeated the current junior high instrumental music curriculum in Alberta from three aspects: (a) musical multiculturalism, (b) individualization, and (c) technology. It is evident that parts of the ideas in the Declaration could be traced in the Alberta curriculum. This paper concludes with recommendations for future curriculum development made through the perspectives of the Tanglewood Declaration. Keywords: Alberta, instrumental music, music curriculum, Tanglewood Declaration, Tanglewood Symposium En 1967, le symposium de Tanglewood a été organisé aux États-Unis pour aborder les multiples facettes de l'éducation musicale. Les discussions du symposium ont abouti à la création de la déclaration de Tanglewood, qui comprend huit déclarations d'implications et de recommandations pour le programme d'études de musique et qui est considérée comme un élément essentiel de la profession d'éducateur de musique. Bien que la déclaration ait été rédigée il y a 56 ans, la vision des ajustements à apporter à la pédagogie et aux programmes est toujours jugée nécessaire dans les classes de musique aux États-Unis et au Canada aujourd'hui, car les problèmes liés à l'éducation musicale dans ces deux pays se sont révélés similaires. En Alberta, le programme d'études de musique le plus récent pour le premier cycle du secondaire a été conçu en 1988, soit 21 ans après l'annonce de la déclaration de Tanglewood. Cette étude a cherché à savoir si les idées de la déclaration de Tanglewood ont imprégné le programme actuel de musique instrumentale du premier cycle du secondaire en Alberta sous trois aspects : (a) le multiculturalisme musical, (b) l'individualisation, et (c) la technologie. Il est évident que certaines idées de la déclaration se retrouvent dans le curriculum de l'Alberta. Cet article se termine par des recommandations pour le développement futur des programmes d'études, formulées dans la perspective de la déclaration de Tanglewood. Mots clés : Alberta, musique instrumentale, programme d'études de musique, déclaration de Tanglewood, symposium de Tanglewood
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".