Engaging.This article reports on a research-practice collaborative project that combined informal music learning practices and youth-led participatory action research with Grade 7 beginning band students at Southridge School in British Columbia. Using real-world music learning experiences, inquiry and reflection, we expanded the scope of a Musical Futures’ informal learning project and helped students develop listening and performing skills, increase their engagement in music learning, and devel
An earlier version of this article was published in the Canadian Music Educator (2012, Vol. 53, No. 2), and is reproduced here with permission of the Canadian Music Educators' Association. The authors would like to thank the students and Steve Burrage, a music teacher at Southridge school, for participating in the project. We also thank Co-investigator, Dr. Yaroslav Senyshyn and Project Coordinator for Research for Youth, Music and Education (RYME), Deanna Peluso for their contributions to the research.
