Preparing Students for the 21st Century Through the Study of World Music

Abstract

This column provides examples of activities that general music teachers might use to weave global awareness into web-based lessons to promote the development of information literacy, media literacy, and communication literacy through the study of world music.

Keywords

culture,music education secondary general music technology world music

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