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Reflection:
The process of research and writing for this essay taught me a lot about curricula, the history of music in Canadian education, and how education (and especially music education) plays a role in developing learners as human beings. It is our/my responsibility as an educator to be a part of these peoples’ development in finding themselves and their place in the world. There are a lot of important values and lessons to be learned about life, the world, and society, and a lot of that can be done through music. We can learn values such as cooperation, participation, independence, and finding our own identity through music and while all those values are personal, as a teacher, I can be a part of their process in helping and guiding learners to discover those things. As a professional teacher, it is your responsibility to be familiar with the curriculum you will be teaching, and this deep-dive analysis of music education’s place in society gives me an even more developed understanding of my role and music’s role in personal and social development.