Soundscapes: Using Informal Learning Pedagogy to Create a Canadian Strand of Musical Futures.

This paper proposes a uniquely Canadian strand of Musical Futures, which it argues should incorporate the principles of both informal music learning, studied by UK professor and researcher, Lucy Green, and soundscape listening/creating, designed by Canadian composer and educator, R. Murray Schafer. It asserts that these two approaches to music learning and teaching can complement each other to provide a creative solution to some of our current issues in Canadian music education. This paper examines the lack of music instructional selfefficacy among generalist teachers and the need for music pedagogy relevant to today's students, specifically within the Ontario elementary school context, in order to illustrate the benefits of a national strand of Musical Futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]