Critical Elements of Instrumental Music Education for Students’ Development of Social and Emotional Skills

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Kwok Chee Katherine Chung, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States
Amanda Mayeaux, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States

Abstract

In today’s post-pandemic era, educational leaders are actively seeking school interventions that can foster students’ development of social and emotional competencies. Among the abundant innovative solutions from the new business sector for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) programs, educational leaders have overlooked one long-standing component in schools that has been used for centuries for young people’s overall development and for cultivating social and emotional competencies—ensemble-based instrumental music education. To explore how ensemble-based instrumental music education can provide students with the crucial SEL experience and develop the five core social and emotional competencies of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making, the primary author conducted a qualitative study and interviewed 31 experienced school instrumental music ensemble directors from 19 states in the United States. This presentation will clearly outline their pedagogical approach and strategies for enhancing students’ social and emotional well-being.

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