# Field Experience Immersion in Music: A Planning Guide 

- **Price:** $15.00 (USD)
- **Author:** Kathleen Melago
- **Format:** Digital resource
- **Level / area:** Higher Education, Secondary
- **Topics:** culture, Diversity, Field experience, field immersion, music teacher education, travel
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## Summary

| *Field Experience Immersion in Music: A Planning Guide* begins with brainstorming locations and guides the reader through comprehensively conceptualizing, planning, and implementing an immersive field experience in music for undergraduate or graduate students. Chock-full of resources and practical advice, this book is perfect for the novice or experienced traveler to create a meaningful, immersive field experience that matches the needs of students. |
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## Description

| Are you looking for a way to bring a high-impact, powerful experience into your undergraduate or graduate music education curriculum? *Field Experience Immersion in Music: A Planning Guide* will help you with that! Written by an experienced traveler after numerous field experience immersion trips, author Kathy Melago will guide you through the process from brainstorming locations through comprehensively conceptualizing, planning, and implementing an immersive field experience in music that fits your needs and resources. The book includes a step-by-step process with reflection questions to help discover strong options for the field experience. Melago’s guidance in balancing being frugal with planning a trip that will appeal to students, including budgeting and fundraising; expert guidance on creating a meaningful, balanced schedule that will meet the needs of the students and faculty; and testimonials from former field experience immersion students that ground the book in the impact of the field experience on the students. Throughout the book, Melago includes examples from past field experiences to put information into practical context. She writes in an easily navigable and compelling writing style designed to guide the reader in an efficient process of brainstorming and planning. Resources and practical advice abound in this powerful planning guide. The book includes the following sections: 1. Introduction: The Beginnings of the Field Experience Immersion Course 2. Selecting a Location 3. Recruiting & Selecting Participants for the Field Experience Immersion in Music 4. Budgeting for the Field Experience Immersion in Music Travel 5. Funding the Field Experience Immersion in Music Travel 6. Creating the Field Experience Immersion in Music Schedule 7. Faculty Professional Development Within the Field Experience Immersion in Music 8. Conclusion & Advice 9. Reflections on Santa Fe Field Experience Immersion in Music from students Jacob Pallo, Michael LaBella, Emily Eastman, and Isaiah Greenawalt 10. Appendixes: Sample Schedule, Reflection Journal, & Packing List |
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