Social Justice: How Music Teachers Fail at “Music for ALL”

Paul Beyer

pau@colostate.edu

“Music is a universal experience, not a universal language” - the ethnomusicologists’ credo

EQUITY

Social Justice

Equity in Music Education Access to Learning during the Pandemic and Beyond

Equity in MUSIC EDUCATION: Cultural Appropriation versus Cultural Appreciation-Understanding the difference

Equity in MUSIC Education: Why equity and social justice in MUSIC Education?

Cultural appropriation

Teach culture as part of rehearsal

Program music from different cultures AND foster MEANINGFUL discussion with your students

Accessibility should be the top priority

Programming diversity

More about social class than culture

Representation opportunities

Acknowledging social issues in the classroom

Takeaways

Addressing and avoiding cultural appropriation

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Ensuring equal opportunity and an equitable education

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Programming social justice

“Music is not a universal language, but a universal experience”

Remember that everybody comes from a different background, and that those backgrounds all have unique cultures that are not always MEANT to be understood universally.

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Thank you!

Paul Beyer

pau@colostate.edu

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References

Nichols, B. E. (2020, September). Equity in Music Education: Access to Learning during the Pandemic and Beyond. Retrieved Spring, 2021, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0027432120945151

Hess, J. (2017, September). Equity in MUSIC Education: Why equity and social justice in MUSIC Education? - JULIET Hess, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2021, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0027432117714737

Howard, K. (2020, March 18). Equity in MUSIC EDUCATION: Cultural Appropriation versus Cultural Appreciation-Understanding the difference - KAREN howard, 2020. Retrieved February 05, 2021, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0027432119892926

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