Full Description
This book explores how music education can remain relevant in an era of multiple environmental crises that threaten human thriving and life on a planetary scale. The author argues that music educators must join with educators in other fields to deconstruct unsustainable ideologies and replace them with sustainable curricular practices, while focusing music learning on the project of fostering hope, healing, resilience, justice, and community cohesion. Drawing on the perspectives of radical ecopsychology, ecojustice, and ecofeminism, this book considers how music education can address the emotional and spiritual dimensions of coping with environmental crises.
Offering a critique of the compartmentalized nature of current educational practices, and envisioning a new approach to music learning that can help teachers and students heal the bifurcations between psyche, nature, and society at the root of the environmental crises, this book is essential reading for scholars of music and arts education as well as graduate students and educators.
Contents
Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction: A House in Need of Repair, a Field in Need of Healing, Introduction to Part 1: Reflecting on our Niche in the Eco-Social World, 1. Symptoms of Eco-Social Crisis Within Music Education, 2. When Headed Toward Collapse, What Can Music Educators Do, 3. Why Ecopsychology?, 4. Radical Ecopsychology & EcoJustice Education, Introduction to Part 2: Exposing the Elephants in the House of Music Education, 5. Supporting Cultures of Care, Dismantling Cultures of Uncare and Dis-care (with Karin S. Hendricks), 6. The Culture of Uncare: Elephants in the Foundation and Walls of the House of Music Education, Introduction to Part 3: Re-Weaving the Eco-Social Web, 7. Healing, Mending, and Building New Soil, 8. Situating Psyche/Society/Nature in a Web of Care
