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Garage rock bands: a future model for developing musical expertise?

Heidi Westerlund
- 01 Aug 2006 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 2, pp 119-125
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In this article, it is suggested that, in line with situated learning theories and research on expertise-based learning, garage rock bands and their informal ways of learning can exemplify how to develop knowledge-building communities and musical expertise in formal music education.
Abstract
A commonly accepted assumption in music education based on the apprenticeship tradition is that teachers deliver their musical expertise using pedagogically relevant methods that will help them to have effective mastery and control over the process of learning. This article decentres the traditional notion of mastery and pedagogy. Rather, it is suggested that, in line with situated learning theories and research on expertise-based learning, garage rock bands and their informal ways of learning can exemplify how to develop knowledge-building communities and musical expertise in formal music education. However, this approach is not intended to question or replace the need for teachers.

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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
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TL;DR: Identity in practice, modes of belonging, participation and non-participation, and learning communities: a guide to understanding identity in practice.
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Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise

TL;DR: Bereiter and Scardamalia as mentioned in this paper examine the nature of expert knowledge, both the part that shows and the much larger part that is hidden, and offer an explanation of how it comes about.