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Research to Practice
Lee Bartel
Announcing...
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of CMEA/ACME
Exploring Social Justice: How Music Education Might Matter is the fourth volume in Research to Practice: A Biennial Series published by the Canadian Music Educators' Association. This book, to be released in the summer of 2009, features 25 chapters by authors from across Canada and from the USA, Brazil, Norway, Finland, and South Africa.
Table of Contents
Section One:
Theoretical Frameworks
1. Vaugeois, Lise. Music as a Practice of Social Justice
In this chapter, I explicate three interlocking elements in the theory and practice of social justice. Each element addresses a pedagogical approach intended to help students develop critical awareness of issues in social justice and explore different possibilities for living and working together with others in and through music education. In part One, I suggest strategies for learning about conditions that produce injustice through the study of what I call "musical life histories." In Part Two, I consider the importance of post-colonial and critical race theories to social justice and argue for a practice of thinking through and beyond taken-for-granted ideas about contemporary social relations. In Part Three, I explore approaches to music making that create spaces for the ideas, interests, skills, and needs each student brings to the classroom through creation, improvisation, and collaborative music-making projects.
2. Countryman, June. Stumbling Towards Clarity: Practical Issues in Teaching Global Musics
Music educators continue to face challenges in privileging various global musics in their teaching. I explore some of these challenges through an honest examination of my own attempts to broaden the musical repertoire in my secondary school choral music classes. I begin with a brief consideration of impediments to change in music education practice, and of issues with inadequate professional development. I continue with an exploration of issues of othering, musical ownership, authenticity, hybridization, and Eurocentric music analysis. I suggest that continually naming the tensions involved in sharing various global music practices and resisting the urge to make naïve assumptions about the effects of this work are important pedagogical moves.
3. Beynon, Carol. (Re) constructing and (Re)Mediating Societal Norms in Masculinity: Reconciling Songs of War
In spite of research in feminist and gender studies, current Western society would have us...