Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction—Catalysts for Change: Activist-Musicians in Music
Education
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	Introduction
	Defining Activism
	The Activist-Musicians
	The Potential of Music Education
	Critical Pedagogy and Activist Music Education
	Book Outline
	Notes
1. A Critical Pedagogy for Music Education
	Freire and Critical Pedagogy
	The Proliferation of Critical Pedagogy: Freire in North America
	Critical Pedagogy and Music Education
	Critiquing Critical Pedagogy
	Actualizing Tenets of Critical Pedagogy for Music Education
	Outlining the Chapters through a Critical Pedagogical Lens
	Notes
2. The Potential of Music
	Musicking as Connection
	Musicking as Communication and Expression
	Musicking as Political
	Musicking as Dangerous
	Musicking as a Learning Site
	Summary
	Notes
3. Music Education as Connection
	The Practice of Community”: Building Community in the Classroom
	Connecting to Histories: Music as a Situated Human Practice
	Expanding Youth’s Worlds: Connecting to Others
	Difficulties with Relationality: Navigating Potential for Re-Experiencing Trauma
	Summary
	Notes
4. Honoring and Sharing Lived Experiences in Music Education
	Place-Based Education
	From Honoring to Sharing Lived Experiences: Naming the World as Creative Curriculum
	The Difficulties with Sharing Experiences: Practical Implications for Students
	Summary
	Notes
5. Music Education as Political
	Noticing Ideologies
	Identifying Lived Conditions
	Facilitating Coming to Voice: Dissent, Imagining, and Exemplars
	Musicking Anti-Oppression
	Summary
	Notes
6. The Dangers of Activist Music Education
	Connecting to Others as Fraught Territory
	The Risks of Expressing Lived Experiences
	Dangers of Enacting Music Education as Political
	Summary
	Notes
Conclusion: A Tri-Faceted Pedagogy for Future Activism
	A Pedagogy of Community
	A Pedagogy of Expression
	A Pedagogy of Noticing
	Remaining Aware of Potential Dangers
	Redefining Activist Music Education
	Conclusion: A Critical Praxis for Music Education
Afterword—Taking Courage: Implementing Activist Music
Education
	Competing Roles for Teachers: Navigating the Global Education Reform Movement
	Pedagogical Concerns: Navigating a Divided Community
	Facing Resistance from the Community
	Not Just “One More Thing”
	Conclusion: Taking up the Challenge
	Notes
Appendix: The Activist-Musicians
References
Credits
Index