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Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music contribute to the common good? In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the challenges of our day in ways that respect and nurture all members of the human family. The contributors to this volume use this report as a framework to explore the implications and complexities that it raises. The book begins with analytical reflections on the report and then explores pedagogical case studies and practical models of music education that address social justice, inclusion, individual nurturance, and active involvement in the greater public welfare. The collection concludes by looking to the future, asking what more should be considered, and exploring how these ideals can be even more fully realized. The contributors to this volume boldly expand the boundaries of the UNESCO report to reveal new ways to think about, be invested in, and use music education as a center for social change both today and going forward.
List of contents
Introduction / Iris M. Yob
Part I: Critique and Clarification
1. There is no Other / Iris M. Yob
2. "On the Perils of Wakening Others" / Randall Everett Allsup
3. Music Education for the Common Good? Between Hubris and Resignation¿A Call for Temperance / Hanne Fossum and Øivind Varkøy
4. Doing the Common Good Work: Rebalancing Individual "Preparation for" with Collectivist Being / Kevin Shorner-Johnson
5. Music, Resistance, and Humane Vibrations / Ebru Tuncer Boon
Part II: Pedagogy and Teacher Preparation
6. Inquiry-based Learning: A Value for Music Education with Aims to Cultivate a Humane Society / Betty Anne Younker
7. A Humane Approach to the Studio / Christine A. Brown
8. The Tuning of the Music Educator: A Pedagogy of the "Common Good" for the Twenty-first Century / André de Quadros, Andrew Clark, Emily Howe, and Kinh T. Vu
9. Navigating Music Teacher Education Toward Humane Ends / Joseph Shively
Part III: Educating Others for the Common Good
10. Friendship, Solidarity, and Mutuality Discovered in Music / Luca Tiszai
11. Rethinking Vocal Education as a Means to Encourage Positive Identity Development in Adolescents / Emily Good-Perkins
12. Rethinking Education: The Four Pillars of Education in the Suzuki Studio / Blakeley Menghini
13. Music Education in Sacred Communities: Singing, Learning, and Leading for the Global Common Good / Mary Thomason-Smith
14. Working with Transgender Students as a Humane Act: Hospitality in Research and in Practice / Jacob Axel Berglin and Thomas Murphy O'Hara
Part IV: Elaborations and Expansions
15. Nourishing the Musically Hungry: Learning from Undergraduate Amateur Musicking / Susan Laird and Johnnie-Margaret McConnell
16. Dissociation/Reintegration of Literary/Musical Sensibility / Deanne Bogdan
17. A Humanistic Approach to Music Education: (Critical) International Perspectives / Martin Berger, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, David Lines, and Leonard Tan
18. Towards the Discovery of Contemporary Trust and Intimacy in Higher Music Education / Eleni Lapidaki
Conclusion: On Making Music Education Humane and Good: Gathering Threads / Estelle R. Jorgensen
About the author
Iris M. Yob is Faculty Emerita and Contributing Faculty Member in the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, Minnesota. Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and Contributing Faculty Member in the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, Minnesota. She is the author of numerous titles, most recently
Pictures of Music Education.
