Skip to Content

Destinations Out: Towards a Jazz-Inflected Model for Community-Based Learning

Ajay Heble

Published: 2010-09-24

This keynote talk was given by ICASP project director Ajay Heble at the Association of Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase Conference, at the University of Prince Edward Island in September 2010. Inspired by the philosophies of Sun Ra, Heble focuses on the need to create structures in the college and university classroom that encourage broader forms of community-based learning and involvement. Further, Heble asserts the importance of strengthening the relationships between those working and learning within and beyond traditional educational institutions. Heble provides specific examples of his own teaching methodologies.

Available Files

  • Destinations_Out_Jazz_Inflected_Learning.pdf

    123 KB | application/pdf

    Download

Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.