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Music Education, Ecopolitical Professionalism, and Public Pedagogy: Towards Systems Transformation. SpringerBriefs in Education
Document Type
Books
Reports - Evaluative
Author
Margaret S. Barrett (ORCID 0000-0001-5904-9915); Heidi M. Westerlund (ORCID 0000-0003-3354-9473)
Source
SpringerBriefs in Education. 2024.
Subject
Music Education
Sustainability
Ecology
Moral Values
Music Teachers
Teacher Education Programs
Professionalism
Reflective Teaching
Language
English
ISSN
2211-1921
Abstract
This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center. The book aims to expand music education's professional horizons to acknowledge the responsibility of the music field to contribute to the demands of complex questions of sustainability and identify the ways in which sustainable music education may be strengthened through an activist relational ecological stance. It suggests a radical moral turn by asking: What if music education is recognised as part of the problem of sustaining unsustainability? and What if music teacher education was developed in and through dialogue with a futures perspective? These questions are interrogated through a critical analysis of the historical positioning of music in education and an interdisciplinary application of theories of ecology and professionalism.

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