ERIC Number: EJ1240730
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Feb
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1057-0837
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Exploring Access, Intersectionality, and Privilege in Undergraduate Music Education Courses
Journal of Music Teacher Education, v29 n2 p22-37 Feb 2020
Music teacher educators often work to prepare preservice music teachers to be socially conscious and adopt dispositions toward teaching in socially just ways. Preservice teachers' beliefs, attitudes, and dispositions toward social justice issues may not be sufficiently challenged, however, unless coursework is appropriately conceived. I designed a three-part workshop to introduce and explore the concepts of access, intersectionality, and privilege, and then conducted a basic qualitative study to examine undergraduate music education students' understandings of and attitudes toward sensitive social justice issues, as well as their experiences with the workshop. I found that exploring sociological concepts related to social justice through interactive activities and allowing students safe methods for expressing themselves, such as journaling, may facilitate the adoption of positive dispositions among preservice teachers toward toward social justice issues.
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Undergraduate Study, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Social Justice, Workshops, Social Bias, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Student Diversity, Equal Education, Barriers, Consciousness Raising
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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