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- Title
A Love Supreme--Riffing on the Standards: Placing Ideas at the Center of High Stakes Schooling.
- Authors
Kohl, Herbert
- Abstract
The article compares the California standards and frameworks for public education to music's "Fake Books," which include a variety of songs, all in the key of C, with no orchestrations or elaborations. The author notes that, with proper use, standards and frameworks can be taken beyond their proscriptive nature to facilitate creative teaching. He states that Bloom's Taxonomy began the educational standards movement, but without any concept of culture, content, or ideas. He differentiates between standards and outcomes, noting that outcomes state goals but allow flexibility in achieving them. The author suggests "riffing" on the standards, as a musician would riff on "Fake Book" basics, to create an interesting or powerful idea relevant to students and presented in an engaging manner.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL standards; EDUCATIONAL objectives; MULTICULTURAL education; BLOOM'S taxonomy; FAKE books (Sheet music); CULTURAL awareness; UNITED States education system
- Publication
Multicultural Education, 2006, Vol 14, Issue 2, p4
- ISSN
1068-3844
- Publication type
Article