Constructivism refers to an individual constructing knowledge and, therefore, a unique understanding of the world, through a synthesis of new and prior experiences.
2.
Lev S. Vygotsky , Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes, ed. Michael Cole, Vera John Steiner, Sylvia Scribner, and Ellen Souberman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press , 1978), 87.
3.
Howard Gardner , The Disciplined Mind (New York: Penguin Books, 2000), 184.
4.
Eunice Boardman , Dimensions of Musical Teaching and Learning (Reston, VA: MENC, 2002), 2.
5.
Jackie Wiggins , Teaching for Musical Understanding ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001),43.
6.
Boardman, Musical Teaching and Learning, 7.
7.
Ibid., 3.
8.
Wiggins, Teaching for Musical Understanding, 37.
9.
Ibid., 18.
10.
See Wiggins, Teaching for Musical Understanding, for a description of the role of a "doorway-in" lesson design, 70.
11.
Stanley Schleuter , A Sound Approach to Teaching Instrumentalists (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997), 37.■
