Louise Pascale

Louise has taught in the ITA Creative Arts in Learning program for over 15 years. She teaches the music course, Multiple Perspectives through Music, the foundational course, Integrative Arts Approaches in the Curriculum, the final thesis course and an on-campus course, Arts and Children with Special Needs. Louise’s research investigates the meaning of singer and non-singer with an interest in changing the ways singing is perceived, nurtured and implemented in classrooms. Most recently, she has launched the Children’s Afghan Songbook Project, a project that strives to preserve traditional Afghan children’s songs and return them to the children of Afghanistan.  These songs almost completely disappeared from Afghan culture due to the devastation that has afflicted Afghanistan over the past 30 years. This project is rooted in her years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late ‘60’s.  In 2008, she published Children’s Songs from Afghanistan, the English translated version of the songbook which is being distributed to music specialists, educators, Afghan-Americans and others interested in learning more about world music.