Pedagogy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement

Andrea J. McAlister, Professor of Piano Pedagogy; director

Susan L. Ellinger, Associate Director of Conservatory Professional Development
Dana E. Jessen, Associate Professor of Contemporary Music and Improvisation and Director of Professional Development
Jody L. Kerchner, Professor of Music Education
Louise R. Zeitlin, Associate Professor of Community Engagement

Visit the pedagogy, advocacy, and community engagement web page for more information on this division and its faculty and instructional staff.

The Division of Pedagogy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement (PACE) embraces Oberlin’s century-long tradition of educating students for public and private school music teaching. PACE also continues the institution’s tradition of advocating for, investigating, and practicing culturally responsive pedagogies throughout the diverse settings in which music and teaching occur in the 21^st century.

PACE offers students practical opportunities to use their musical craft and pedagogical skills in schools and community settings. Access to the arts is a theme of social justice commonly explored in PACE.

Through PACE, students might find themselves taking part in such programs and activities as:

• Coaching local youth orchestra sectionals
• Observing and teaching students at Oberlin Community Music School
• Networking with nationally renowned community arts educators through coursework
• Teaching music composition and technology courses for middle school students
• Studying educational policy
• Teaching children to play gongs and gamelan at an urban after-school program
• Researching intersections between music cognition and school music curricula
• Playing guitar for hospice patients
• Rehearsing a prison choir
• Studying alternative pedagogies
• Teaching piano to young students
• Teaching private voice or instrumental lessons for non-conservatory students
• Performing in Oberlin Orchestra outreach concerts

Programs

• Piano Pedagogy Minor

• Pedagogy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement Integrative Concentration

Courses

• APST 144 - Mindfulness in Music Making

• PACE 101F - Foundational Music Pedagogy
• PACE 102 - Community Engagement Musicians
• PACE 103 - Community Music Engagement in the Schools
• PACE 104 - String Pedagogy I
• PACE 105 - String Pedagogy II
• PACE 106 - Strings at Grafton Prison
• PACE 108 - Music Advocacy and Administration
• PACE 210 - Piano Pedagogy I/II
• PACE 212 - Guided Teaching Observation
• PACE 230H - Introduction to Voice Pedagogy
• PACE 300 - Principles of Education
• PACE 310 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy Practicum
• PACE 311 - Intermediate Piano Pedagogy Practicum
• PACE 312 - Class Piano Pedagogy Practicum
• PACE 313 - Guided Piano Pedagogy Project
• PACE 314 - Flute Pedagogy I/II
• PACE 316 - Creativity of Music
• PACE 317 - Psychology of Musical Behaviors
• PACE 318 - Community Building Through Creative Placemaking
• PACE 995F - Private Reading - Full
• PACE 995H - Private Reading - Half

• PROF 111 - Public Media Practicum
• PROF 140 - Introduction to Harpsichord Tuning and Maintenance
• PROF 141 - Harpsichord Tuning Practicum
• PROF 170 - Introduction to Music Criticism
• PROF 171 - Practicing Music Journalism
• PROF 200 - Professional Development for Musicians
• PROF 995F - Private Reading - Full
• PROF 995H - Private Reading - Half