Seeking Connections: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Music Teaching and Learning

Music connects the lives of students, teachers, and school communities in many ways. Music is also integrally related to other art forms, history, culture, and other subjects commonly taught in schools. These relationships deserve critical attention, particularly as educators seek to reorient their curricula and pedagogy toward the pressing aims of social justice.

Seeking Connections encourages interdisciplinarity as a capacity to be exercised-an orientation or habit of mind that teachers a...