Although teachers and researchers frequently acknowledge that music education can
benefit pupils' academic achievement, health and well-being, and social development …

Listening is often a unidirectional practice in North American music education, one that is
used as a functional tool to help uncover the “right” or “best” answer to a posed question …

Responding to the identified need for reflection, critique, and evaluations of appreciative
inquiry (AI), a form of action research, this article presents a critical reflection on an …

Teaching in contemporary schools raises complex questions about how to engage
meaningfully with diversity. Working within already politicized and fast-changing …

The world is witnessing a profusely unkind and violent era. Perhaps not for the first or last
time, but the quality of this psychosis seems to be different from other historical epochs in at …

In this theoretical article, I examine various conceptions of focused listening—including
those held by specific First Nations communities—to determine how each conception might …

This study examined the changes in perception toward systemic racism of twenty-six first-
year students at a mid-sized university in central New Jersey. All were members of the first …

This review article critically engages with the sociological perspectives on capital, class,
status and social reproduction shared in the second section of the Routledge Handbook to …

Over the past decade, music education policy, pedagogy, and research in England has
been shaped by a neoliberal discourse of invulnerability, in which the benefits of music upon …

When thinking about school music education in the era of disorder and unsettlement through
post-apocalypse (Niknafs, 2022b) or post-truth (Kuntz, 2021) world or postnihilistic times …