Madness and Distress in Music Education - Toward a Mad-Affirming Approach

Madness and Distress in Music Education offers an in-depth exploration of mental health and emotional distress in the context of music education, offering new ways of thinking about these experiences and constructing ways to support distress through affirming pedagogy and practices in music education.

List of contents

Introduction: Madness and Distress in Music Education: Toward a Mad-Affirming Approach
Ch. 1 – Just What Is Mad Studies and What Is It Doing in a “Nice” Field Like Music Education?
Ch. 2 – Applying Models from Disability Studies to Experiences of Madness and Distress
Ch. 3 – Conceptualizing and Discussing Mental Health Differences
Ch. 4 – Benefits of Neurodivergence
Ch. 5 – A Question of Visibility: Being “Out” in Music Education
Ch. 6 – How Music (Education) Might Harm
Ch. 7 – How Music (Education) Might Help
Ch. 8 – Abolition and Distress
Conclusion: A Mad-Affirming Music Education
Afterword
Appendix 1 – A Note on Methods
Appendix 2 – A Call for Activism

About the author

Juliet Hess is Associate Professor of Music Education at Michigan State University. She is the author of Music Education for Social Change and co-editor of Trauma and Resilience in Music Education.

Summary

Madness and Distress in Music Education offers an in-depth exploration of mental health and emotional distress in the context of music education, offering new ways of thinking about these experiences and constructing ways to support distress through affirming pedagogy and practices in music education.

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Hess, Juliet (Michigan State University Hess
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032662800
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266280-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Music, MUSIC / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Music / Instruction & Study, Psychotherapy, Care of the mentally ill, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Care of people with mental health issues, Educational: Music, Moral & social purpose of education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General