Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an
activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on …

Although general education has focused attention in this direction for some time, it seems
that the concept of social justice may finally have become a topic of widespread interest …

I want to begin this essay at the end, with a conclusion, so we don't lose track of its
destination: At the center of all music making and musical experience lies a “we,” a sense of …

In the twenty-first century, many music education scholars seek to reconceptualize music
education toward social justice. Critical pedagogy is at the forefront of this shift. However, as …

Combining key selections from the classic MENC Handbook of Research on Music
Teaching and Learning (Schirmer, 1992) and the widely acclaimed New Handbook of …

BIFURCATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS is experienced [by] women We are situated... across
a contradiction in our discipline's relationship to our experience of the world.(Smith, 1990, p …

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging
from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the …

Gender is inherent in all aspects of the music education profession: musical instruments,
occupations, materials, pedagogies and preferences. Despite this, feminist theory has been …

This project examines the work of four elementary music educators who strive to challenge
the dominant paradigm of music education. I employed the methodology of a multiple case …

In the introduction to The American Eva-sion of Philosophy 9 Cornel West proposes that
current philosophical thinking is in an interregnum characterized by dissatisfaction with …