Full Description
This book introduces a unique approach to the interconnections between music education and politics. By taking a broader, more diverse, and explicitly ethico-political philosophical and theoretical stance, the book challenges institutional and structural conditions that may be resistant to change and expands the understanding of the professional responsibility of music educators in the 21st century to meet a variety of societal and ecological challenges.
Emerging from a collaboration between international music education scholars and prominent contemporary educational theorist Gert Biesta, this book connects contemporary educational theories with music education to unlock its transformational capacity. In eight chapters, the contributors show how music education can move towards ways of being and doing that are attuned to social justice and to the broader social and ecological responsibility of music professionals. Strengthening the interdisciplinary connections between music education and education, philosophy, sociology, policy, systems thinking, and more, the volume offers a renewed vision of the scope and boundaries of both music teacher education and professional work in music more widely.
Connecting the decades-long work of internationally established music educator scholars and ideas from large-scale research projects with a shared interest in transformative theorisation, this book fills a knowledge gap and reframes the philosophy of music education as a vibrantly multidisciplinary, theory-generating field. Relevant to researchers and students across music teacher education and performance studies, this book speaks to both conservatoires and university contexts across Europe and North America, helping us unlock the transformative capacity of music education.
Contents
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List of Contributors
Why music education needs transformative politics: Introduction
Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes, and Heidi Westerlund
Chapter 1. Reclaiming the education question for music education: Groundwork for a transformative politics
Gert Biesta
Chapter 2. Expanding mental models in music education: Transformational praxis beyond the expert gaze
Heidi Westerlund and Albi Odendaal
Chapter 3. Music educators as imaginative "designers": Emerging transformative ecopolitics in higher education
Heidi Westerlund, Danielle Treacy, Katja Thomson, and Albi Odendaal
Chapter 4. The paradox of social innovations within music schools: Taking critical responsibility in transformative practice
Hanna Backer Johnsen, Geir Johansen, and Tuulikki Laes
Chapter 5. Policy entrepreneurship: towards a new music education professionalism in a risk society
Patrick Schmidt and Tuulikki Laes
Chapter 6. The Pædeia process in music education: Recuperating creativity as democratic education
Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos
Chapter 7. The transformative politics of music education research: Navigating public scholarship through transepistemic synthesis
Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes, and Heidi Westerlund
Chapter 8. A manifesto for transformative politics in music education
Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes and Heidi Westerlund
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