Poster about meeting the academic and cultural needs of international students at the Arizona State University Libraries and the University of Arizona Libraries. The poster presentation focuses on:

1. Strategies to promote information literacy skills of international students in the two university libraries.
2. What the libraries are doing to improve services to meet the needs and encourage library use among international students.
3. Partnerships that have been established with other academic departments or institutions.

Philosophers in ancient Greece established a hierarchy among musical activities, with composition and cognitive knowledge being superior to performance and listening. Music's status was further solidified as an object during the Enlightenment, when the doctrine of aesthetic contemplation emerged. Eventually, a concept of universality evolved, which (the author argues) was proffered as an artistic analogue for universal "truth." Today, some recognize that musical creativity can be "manifested in performance," that most concepts of composition are Western and elitist, and that these concepts run counter to avowed goals in multicultural music education as well as to most forms of musical practice throughout the world.

This is the English language version of the paper as it was presented at the first conference of the Greek Society for Music Education, held in Thessaloniki, Greece on June 26-28, 1998. It was one of a pair of papers presented as the Honor Guest Lecturer Addresses (the other being "Music Education Research in the U.S.A.: An Overview").

This is the published Greek language translation of the original English language speech as it was presented at the first conference of the Greek Society for Music Education, held in Thessaloniki, Greece on June 26-28, 1998. It was one of a pair of papers presented as the Honor Guest Lecturer Addresses (the other being "Music Education Research in the U.S.A.: An Overview").

The first part of this paper provides an overview of some important historic theories of education and their influences on music education. The second part deals with two specific theories related to music education, both from the late twentieth century. The paper presents some insights into the effects of these theories on the practice of music education (praxis). The important historic theories of education with implications for education and music education discussed in this paper are:

1. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, published in 1759.
2. Jean Jacques Rousseau's concepts of childhood, published in 1762.
3. Henrich Pestalozzi's theory on the sequencing of instruction, published (variously) in 1810.  
4. G. Stanley Hall's theories of child development stages, especially his construct of adolescence (1880s). 
5. Education theories of John Dewey and other leaders of the progressive education movement.
6. Jean Piaget's theories of childhood development stages.

The influences of these theories on music education praxis are discussed largely as a group. The two theories of music education discussed in this paper are:

1. Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory.
2. Albert LeBlanc's theory of music preference.

Both these theories are illustrated and their influences on music education praxis are discussed separately.