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Teams and
Partnerships
David Koeller
North Park University
World Music in Historical Context

Combine Survey of World Music with
Survey of World History
 Use
music as primary sources to understand
world history
 Use world history as context to better
understand world music.
Outcomes
As a result of this course, you should be able to:
 A. Demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts in
ethnomusicology in addition to gaining substantial
concrete knowledge of a wide variety of music from
around the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on
recognizing by ear the sound and style of various
musics.
 B. Strengthen your grasp of the fundamental elements of
music through this study.
 C. Demonstrate a basic understanding of some of the
cultures of the world.
First Iteration

A Disaster. Two parallel courses with little
interaction

First Hypothesis:
 We
had merely put the two courses side by
side
 We had not really merged them
Second Iteration
Change from historical narrative to
regional approach
 Better integration of the course
 But not what we had hoped

Third Iteration
Reality Strikes
 We could bring the two halves of the
course closer together, but it would never
be a team project
 Two different sets of responsibilities

 World
Music Course
 History GE Course
Organizational Models

Katzenbach and Smith: The Wisdom of
Teams (1993)
 Working
Groups
 Teams
Pseudo Teams
 Potential Team
 Real Team
 High Performance Teams

Working Group
Individual Accountability
 Performance depends on individual
performance

Team
Each individual contributes to the work of
the whole
 The whole group is responsible for the end
product.

Pseudo-team
Not focused on collective performance
 Not really trying to be a team
 Interactions detract individual performance
without any team benefit

“Team” Taught Courses
Really “Working Group” Courses
 For Example:

 Course
made of a series of guest lectures
Why couldn’t Lyon and
I act as a team?
World Music Year One
World Music Year Two
Outcomes
As a result of this course, you should be able to:
 A. Demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts in
ethnomusicology in addition to gaining substantial
concrete knowledge of a wide variety of music from
around the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on
recognizing by ear the sound and style of various
musics.
 B. Strengthen your grasp of the fundamental elements of
music through this study.
 C. Demonstrate a basic understanding of some of the
cultures of the world.
Limits to Shared Responsibility
Lyon had his commitments to the music
portion of the course.
 I had my commitments to the General Ed
portion of the course.
 I could not integrate all of what he had to
cover into the history portion
 He could not integrate all of what I had
cover into the music portion
 We could never be a team

Partnership
Working Groups and Teams have a single
set of outcomes.
 Partnerships have at least two distinct sets
of outcomes.
 Unlike Working Groups, some outcomes
are joint responsibility
 Unlike Teams, some outcomes are
individual responsibility

Partnership
Team benefits in the areas of overlap.
 Working Groups benefits in the areas of
individual responsibility.
 Sometimes, partnerships are the best
option.

Know What You
Can Do