Music Teacher Education: Assessing a community outreach partnership

Partnerships between communities and universities are taking place largely in urban areas and are creating diverse contexts for music teaching and learning. This descriptive survey is conducted to enhance the development of future partnership projects through: (a) the identification of strategies for sustaining music education partnership programs for all young people; (b) improved cohesiveness among stated goals, objectives and outcomes; (c) documenting planning and implementation efforts to reach members of the local home school community; and (d) documenting the effort and creativity of elementary music education students as one means of improving community outreach programs.