ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a range of pedagogical approaches that community musicians employ in efforts to include all ages and people from diverse backgrounds into the circle of music engagement. The interactions are typically part of a workshop, an event where members of community engage together within this facilitated, low-risk environment. The workshop itself may revolve around a variety of learning modalities, including formal transmission, non-formal structured and purposeful practices and the often casual, unregulated practices of the informal. Within formal education through schooling, the development of literacy in a number of valued disciplines is the goal. Teaching-learning modes in community music situations often include a rich mixture of oral, notational, experimental, conservative, experiential, spiritual and/or analytical elements. The curriculum is the set of learning expectations that learners are to demonstrate as evidence of mastery. The curriculum is actually negotiated until the identified needs are addressed and met, sometimes referred to as a 'bottom-up' process.
