Music profs named to convention
Gerald Carney, Paul Haack and George Duerksen, professors of music education at KU, have been appointed by the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) to serve as state representatives in a national project of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC).
The appointments were made at the KMEA convention held in Wichita Feb. 20 and 21.
Carney, who is currently president of KMEA, will be the Kansas representative to the MENC Convention to be held in Chicago March 4 and 5. He will evaluate work done by the 50-member Goals and Objectives committee, which will review MENC's position on the preparation of music educators.
"The Goals and Objectives committee will study the relevance and philosophy of teaching procedures in an effort to improve the education of music teachers," Carney said.
Committee findings, Carney said, would be turned over to a national commission, along with his evaluation of the committee's work. The national commission would then draw up workable plans for utilizing the suggestions of the Goals and Objectives committee.
Haack, who teaches music education from an esthetic and historical approach, is a member of the committee concerned with esthetic education.
Each member of the committee, he said is asked to outline goals for MENC to uprise in promoting esthetic education.
"Curriculum development is the first concern of music education," said Haack. "Music education must be esthetic education."
Haack said that "esthetics."
when applied to anything was practically impossible to define. He said he believed the focus of esthetic music education needed to be on the inherent expressive quality of music, through which the meaning of the composition could be understood.
"We must be concerned with the value in music which helps man to understand himself," said Haack. "A student of music must gain insight into the nature of man. For this to be accomplished, music must be taught in
context."
"Esthetic education should broaden a person's understanding of music, not limit it to a study of one style of music," he said.
Haack said all forms of music had social relevance, which could help students to understand all types of social factors.
Duerksen will serve on the 30 member committee on research in music education. He said that the committee would formulate plans to facilitate
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Duerksen is concerned primarily with laboratory and behavioral research, but said that some colleges tend to concentrate on research in music history.
more research in music education through MENC. He said that the committee would also suggest that MENC serve as a clearing house to provide information to colleges about the types of research being done.
"We need to formulate plans of action," Duerksen said. "One being considered is a nation-wide
competition for undergraduates who do research in music education. Cash prizes would be offered to the students completing outstanding research projects."
MENC has a student chapter at KU. It has 58,000 members nationally.
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