The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is endeavored to host three (3) fellows who are educators currently teaching in colleges or universities that do not offer jazz studies, during a well-planned twelve-day residency filled with jazz programs, access to key individuals and popular presenting institutions, an intimate reception, and live performances. Each fellow will travel to and reside in New York City during their fellowship term. In exchange for this fellowship opportunity, each fellow will document their experience and formulate concrete strategies and methodologies to introduce jazz pedagogical techniques into their academic curriculum or institution.
About the Jazz Fellowship for Non-Jazz Educators
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) is a New York City based not for profit organization dedicated to fostering the presentation and preservation of Jazz music as a living, breathing entity that looks as far into the future as it does into the past. Under the leadership of Executive Director and jazz scholar, Loren Schoenberg, the NJMH is a significant contributor to the education and cultural experience of jazz through a variety of innovative programs, such as: Harlem Speaks, Saturday Panels, Jazz for Curious Readers, Jazz for Curious Listeners, Harlem in the Himalayas, Harmony in Harlem for Young Musicians, and Harlem Speaks: In-school Initiative.
As an art form, jazz is probably the most distinctive, complex and inclusive musical genre created in America. There are so many layers from which to stimulate and engage critical thinking, particularly in institutions of learning. NJMH believes that jazz could be a tool to expand students problem solving techniques. With all of its permutations, however, the pathway to integrate jazz into traditional, nonmusical academic settings is not always obvious. The National Jazz Museum in Harlem understands this paradox, and has established a Jazz Fellowship for Non-Jazz Educators. Recognizing the immense benefits of expanding a students cognitive process through creative engagement, NJMH's Jazz Fellowship--for Non-Jazz Educators aims to provide college and/or university educators--a two-week immersion into the world of jazz, in an effort to integrate this musical art form into the educators curriculum.
Under the seasoned guidance of NJMH's Executive Director Loren Schoenberg, who is also an accomplished jazz musician, producer, scholar, published author, and lecturer, three (3) educators in non-music disciplines will be given the unique opportunity to reside in New York for twelve (12) days and shadow Schoenberg. Each educator, uniquely experiencing this fellowship program on separate occasions, will attend a melange of events including NJMH's signature programs, performances, exhibitions, lectures, and an intimate reception with the Museums Chairman, Arthur H. Barnes and other special guests. The educators will be engaged in discussions about their pedagogical goals and philosophy, institutional settings, students, and methods in which the lessons from jazz can be integrated into their classrooms or institutions at large. They will be required to document their fellowship experience and deviseconcrete ideas as to how jazz teachings can be integrated into the teachers or schools curriculum.
Summary of Fellowship Goals
Introduce the idea of jazz as a pedagogical tool to collegiate institutions that do not have a prior history of offering jazz-based programs;
Provide a 12-day intense immersion in the jazz landscape of NYC to stimulate ideas of how jazz can be incorporated into the classroom;
Create a memorable and inspiring jazz experience for the fellows;
Expand the national visibility and reach of the Nation Jazz Museum in Harlem;
Summary of what the National Jazz Museum in Harlem will provide select fellows:
Airfare and hotel accommodations for 12 days;
Robust itinerary of jazz-related activities during fellowship term including, but not limited to, NJMH programs, live performances, lectures, visits to famous jazz presenting institutions, and introductions to jazz artists and scholars
Direct access to NJMH's Executive Director, Loren Schoenberg;
Introduction to and reception with NJMH's Chairman, Arthur Barnes
Eligible candidates must: Be an educator in a college or university that does not have a jazz program;
Have an interest in expanding the presence of jazz at the educators academic institution;
Receive a commitment from the departmental or institutional director of his/her openness to explore opportunities to integrate jazz a pedagogical method into the fellows and/or institutions curriculum;
Submit a written release by an authorized agent of his or her academic institution,stating that the candidate can participate in the fellowship program without consequence to his or her engagement as an educator in the institution.
