ERIC Number: EJ1179719
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-May
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0255-7614
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Troubling Whiteness: Music Education and the "Messiness" of Equity Work
Hess, Juliet
International Journal of Music Education, v36 n2 p128-144 May 2018
At the elementary level, White, female music teachers largely populate music education. In the diverse schools of Toronto in Canada, teachers navigate their White subjectivities in a range of ways. My research examines the discourses, philosophies, and practices of four White, female elementary music educators who have striven to challenge dominant paradigms of music education. Their practices include critically engaging issues of social justice, studying a broad range of musics, and emphasizing contextualization. In many ways, these teachers interrupt the Eurocentric paradigm of music education to explore other possibilities with students. However, equity work is messy, and there were also moments that unsettled these teachers' active equity agendas. This article describes both the subversions and the reinscriptions in a way that might be instructive to music education.
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Foreign Countries, Whites, Elementary School Teachers, Social Justice, Feminism, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Racial Factors, Females, Observation, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Toronto)
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