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Realizing Diversity: An Equity Framework for Music Education
Karen Howard
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G-10760
Price:
$24.95
Questions abound about diversity in music education. How can
we engage with diverse populations, repertoire, and identities
while upholding integrity and achieving equity? What are
cultural appropriation, othering, tokenizing, and
essentializing? How can we avoid bias in our teaching and
repertoire selection? How do we create a more socially just
music education?
These are critical questions with accessible answers. But if
we are to become better music educators, we must reflect on
these questions, our own identities, and our relationships
with the music and people of the world.
Realizing Diversity is a groundbreaking and practical
resource for crafting diverse and anti-bias music education in
classrooms, ensembles, and studios at all levels—from
preschool to university and community settings.
At the book’s core is an Anti-Bias Framework intended to help
music educators gain confidence and comfort in designing music
curricula that are just, equitable, and make participants feel
safe and welcome. Structured around the four social justice
domains of identity, diversity, justice, and action, this
framework explores topics of anti-racism, gender and sexual
identity, power and privilege, disabilities, economic
realities, empathy, and critical consciousness.
Dr. Howard also includes discussion of educational movements
in United States history, the challenging “world music” label
and related authenticity, the hyper-prevalence of Western
Eurocentric music, inclusive repertoire selection, as well as
appendices with critical practices for educators and a sample
curriculum.Book, 242 pages.
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