Episode 24 - Jon Carney

Struggle to Understand

I speak with Jon Carney. Jon is the director of bands at New Palestine High School, a suburb of Indianapolis. Jon as a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and a Master’s in Tuba Performance and Literature. We speak about the importance of music education in public education, the role that music can play in lives, and the importance that music plays in fostering a sense of community. Perhaps the most important element that we discuss is the topic that should always be the main concern for education: the kind of person we want to develop through our curricula. Jon’s approach to music education, while certainly deeply concerned with the technical aspects of proficiency, also takes into consideration what skills are necessary for developing, and living within, a community. This was an excellent conversation that illustrates how integrated our educational structures should be and how, perhaps too often, we do not teach across the curriculum nearly enough. Here is my conversation with Jon.

Introductory music was written by Alex Yoder. Find him here

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