Music Inquiry

Inquiry into Music: Course Home

An inquiry based approach to learning about music provides flexible lessons that deepen and broaden learners’ understanding of music while engaging with their current musical interests, preferences, and goals. This hands-on experience with inquiry in a subject area that appeals to most learners also provides practice in selfdirected learning that can be applied in any area of life-long learning.

Introduction

This module serves as the orientation and course “home” for an experimental course that takes an inquiry-based approach to learning about music. The purpose of the course is to provide guidance for individuals or groups in designing and carrying out music-learning inquiries that are tailored to the educational goals, learning style, cultural background, musical knowledge, and interests of the individual learners.

You will find in this module

1. A short general introduction to What is inquiry-based learning?
2. A description of the specific How does online music inquiry work?
3. Advice for Teachers and Group Facilitators and others who are interested in facilitating a group inquiry
4. A list of Music Inquiry Modules offered through this course
5. Suggested Resources for further reading about inquiry-based learning.