The Transformative Politics of Music Education

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-49495-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: ISME Series in Music Education

This book introduces a unique approach to the interconnections between music education and politics. By taking a broader, more diverse, and explicitly ethico-political philosophical and theoretical stance, the book challenges institutional and structural conditions that may be resistant to change and expands the understanding of the professional responsibility of music educators in the 21st century to meet a variety of societal and ecological challenges.

Emerging from a collaboration between international music education scholars and prominent contemporary educational theorist Gert Biesta, this book connects contemporary educational theories with music education to unlock its transformational capacity. In eight chapters, the contributors show how music education can move towards ways of being and doing that are attuned to social justice and to the broader social and ecological responsibility of music professionals. Strengthening the interdisciplinary connections between music education and education, philosophy, sociology, policy, systems thinking, and more, the volume offers a renewed vision of the scope and boundaries of both music teacher education and professional work in music more widely.

Connecting the decades-long work of internationally established music educator scholars and ideas from large-scale research projects with a shared interest in transformative theorisation, this book fills a knowledge gap and reframes the philosophy of music education as a vibrantly multidisciplinary, theory-generating field. Relevant to researchers and students across music teacher education and performance studies, this book speaks to both conservatoires and university contexts across Europe and North America, helping us unlock the transformative capacity of music education.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laes, Tuulikki

Biesta, Gert

Westerlund, Heidi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures



List of Contributors



Why music education needs transformative politics: Introduction

Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes, and Heidi Westerlund



Chapter 1. Reclaiming the education question for music education: Groundwork for a transformative politics

Gert Biesta



Chapter 2. Expanding mental models in music education: Transformational praxis beyond the expert gaze

Heidi Westerlund and Albi Odendaal



Chapter 3. Music educators as imaginative "designers": Emerging transformative ecopolitics in higher education

Heidi Westerlund, Danielle Treacy, Katja Thomson, and Albi Odendaal



Chapter 4. The paradox of social innovations within music schools: Taking critical responsibility in transformative practice

Hanna Backer Johnsen, Geir Johansen, and Tuulikki Laes



Chapter 5. Policy entrepreneurship: towards a new music education professionalism in a risk society

Patrick Schmidt and Tuulikki Laes



Chapter 6. The Pædeia process in music education: Recuperating creativity as democratic education

Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos



Chapter 7. The transformative politics of music education research: Navigating public scholarship through transepistemic synthesis

Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes, and Heidi Westerlund



Chapter 8. A manifesto for transformative politics in music education

Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes and Heidi Westerlund



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tuulikki Laes is University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, and an Academy Research Fellow appointed by the Research Council of Finland (2023–2027).

Gert Biesta is Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy in the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK; Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Heidi Westerlund is Professor of Music Education at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia.