Music Across the Senses Listening, Learning, and Making Meaning

Music Across the Senses provides music educators with practical ideas for facilitating student music listening skill development. Written both for in-service and pre-service music educators, the book shows how to facilitate PK-12 students' listening skills using multisensory means in general music and performance ensemble classes.

As a whole, Music Across the Senses helps teachers enable students to learn how to devise independent strategies for listening that they can employ and enjoy both now and throughout their lives.

Jody L. Kerchner is Professor of Music Education at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she is the secondary-school music and choral music education specialist. Dr. Kerchner taught K-8 general and choral music in Swarthmore, PA, and Winnetka, IL, and she continues to form collaborations between her music education methods courses and local middle school music programs. Her research interests include children's responses during music listening, choral music education, empathetic leadership, teacher identity development, assessment, and reflective thinking.