CMC founders Glenn Hinson (middle, left) and Dwight
Rogers (middle, right) making music with a group of fourth-graders.
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THE GOAL OF CURRICULUM, MUSIC, AND COMMUNITY (CMC) is to draw on local
music traditions to make the learning of school subjects more interesting,
exciting, and meaningful for students. Through this project, music provides
a link to students' local communities and school curriculum.
The CMC project is an educational
initiative collaboratively designed and administered by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Curriculum in Folklore,
the UNC-CH School of Education, the Folklife and Arts in Education
programs of the North Carolina Arts Council, and teachers and local
arts council representatives from nine participating schools in
six counties.
The project is designed to support teachers
in their efforts to incorporate the music and musical traditions of
their communities into their regular classroom instruction. The CMC
project is not a series of "one shot" performances, a collection
of lesson plans, or a rehashing of the "artist in the school"
model. It is instead a coherent project committed to bringing music
of the local community into the schools for the purpose of enhancing
instruction and learning.
>> About the project
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