Dates: March 17-20, 2020
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Course Director: Jennifer Walden
Description: This first-ever South American World Music Pedagogy course is planned as a pre-conference seminar prior to the Association of American Schools in South America, in collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and will draw participants into playing, singing, and moving to music from world cultures, including Brazil. Content will cover music resources, cross-disciplinary integration, and curricular development in music culture, theory, education, and performance. Selection of course-appropriate readings and recordings (Smithsonian Folkways’ rich inventory), online sources, and project design will be discussed. Matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion will be addressed in the context of grade K-12 music programs, and teachers develop a foundation in World Music Pedagogy that they can infuse into their school programs. Faculty to include Jennifer Walden, Kyle Heide, and guest musicians from Sao Paulo, Brazil. For information and registration, please visit the AASSA web site or contact Dr. Jennifer Walden at waldenj429@gmail.com.

Dates: June 15-19, 2020
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Course Director: Katherine Palmer and Amanda Soto
Description: The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) will offer its first Smithsonian Folkways certificate course in World Music Pedagogy, in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the world’s largest global collections of musical instruments, MIM aims to enrich our world by collecting, preserving, and making accessible an astonishing variety of instruments and performance videos from nearly every country in the world. Course participants will engage in the study of world music through participatory events that focus on learning culture through music (song, movement and dance, instrumental music). Participants will be guided through MIM exhibits and into the archive of recordings from Smithsonian Folkways that fit the needs of diverse learners of all ages, so to understand world cultures through music as it can be learned by children, youth, and adults in university and community settings. Small group sessions will help to decipher and discuss applications for various teaching contexts and aims. Course faculty include MIM educators, artist-musicians, culture bearers, and experienced teachers. Click here for more information.

Dates: June 22-26, 2020
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Course Director: Janet Robbins
Description: West Virginia University's School of Music will host its fifth Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course. This weeklong professional development course is intended for K-12, university, and community educators interested in designing innovative curricula that connect K-12 music programs with local and global musical traditions. Daily workshops will feature several musical cultures including Central Appalachia, Brazil, and West Africa as led by WVU faculty and guest artists. Teachers will develop a foundation in world music pedagogy and explore the rich ethnographic audio, film, and print resources of Smithsonian Folkways. Teachers successfully completing the course will receive documentation from the Smithsonian Institute certifying specialized study in world music pedagogy. For more information click here. Lead faculty include: Janet Robbins (pedagogy), Travis Stimeling (Appalachia), Mike Vercelli (West Africa, Brazil), and Juliana Cantarelli Vita (Northeast Brazil, pedagogy).

Dates: June 29 - July 3, 2020
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Course Director: Amanda Soto
Description: For the 12th consecutive summer, the University of Washington will offer a 40-hour intensive course in World Music Pedagogy, with emphasis on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Audio, video, print, electronic, and human resources will be featured, as well as noteworthy ethnomusicological issues, with the aim of facilitating student learning of culturally unfamiliar practices. Participants will engage in global and local cultures through song, movement/dance experience, and instrumental music, and will be introduced to strategies in the use of “culture-bearing musicians” and recordings from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the Routledge World Music Pedagogy series. Enrolled participants will join together to share particular means of teaching world music cultures to children, youth, and adults in culturally sensitive ways, and will receive documentation from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Washington that certifies their specialized study. Featured musical cultures include Bulgaria, Gospel (African American), India (Hindustani), Indonesia (gamelan), Mexico (and Tejano), Senegal (Wolof), Turkey, and Zimbabwe, and musical and pedagogical sessions led by faculty Amanda C. Soto, Thione Diop, Phyllis Byrdwell, Jocelyn Moon, Shannon Dudley, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Christopher Roberts, and others. See course information at www.worldmusicpedagogy.com.

Dates: July 6-10, 2020
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Course Director: Karen Howard
Description: At the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, a week-long course in World Music Pedagogy will lead participants to learning local and global cultures through song, movement, instrumental music, and the integration of cultural understandings. Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways will be featured alongside visits with culture-bearing community musicians, all for purposes of learning the music and ways in which it can be taught/learned in classes of music for children, youth and adults in university and community settings. Enrolled participants will join together to share particular means of teaching world music, and will receive a certificate from the Smithsonian Institution on achievement in World Music Pedagogy. Graduate credit (3 units) is an available option. Karen Howard is lead teacher, along with Tim O’Keefe, Siama Matazungidi, Dallas Johnson, Colleen Casey Nelson, Nyssa Brown, Skye Sanford, Joko Sutrisno Bob Walser, and others on the vocal and instrumental music and dance of the Balkans, Puerto Rico, Arabic music, the Congo, Japan, and the Javanese gamelan (and more!). For more information, please contact Karen Howard via email at karen.howard@stthomas.edu.

Dates: July 13-17, 2020
Location: Cheney, Washington, USA
Course Director: Cyndy Nasman
Description: Eastern Washington University will host its second Smithsonian Folkways certificate course in World Music Pedagogy. This five-day course is an active exploration of music from many cultures for K-12 teachers, university faculty, and community teachers. Led by EWU faculty, local musician-teachers, and culture bearers, participants will engage in learning culture through song, movement and dance experiences, instrumental music, and culture-rich experiences. Pedagogical issues in learning and teaching music from a cultural perspective will be explored through the use of recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways archives that fit the needs of students in knowing music through culture, and culture through music. Musical experiences will be tailored for use at various levels, including in classes for children, youth, and adults in university and community settings. A final pedagogical project will be completed for participants to receive a Smithsonian Folkways Certificate in World Music Pedagogy. Daily workshops in musical cultures of the world will include Hawaii, West Africa, Trinidad, the Salish community, and more. For more information, please contact Cynthia Nasman via email at cnasman@ewu.edu.