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Print Price: $43.95

Format:
Paperback
296 pp.
3 illustrations, 155 mm x 231 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190246150

Publication date:
March 2017

Imprint: OUP US


Policy and the Political Life of Music Education

Patrick Schmidt and Richard Colwell

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education is the first book of its kind in the field of Music Education. It offers a far-reaching and innovative outlook, bringing together expert voices who provide a multifaceted and global set of insights into a critical arena for action today: policy. On one hand, the book helps the novice to make sense of what policy is, how it functions, and how it is discussed in various parts of the world; while on the other, it offers the experienced educator a set of critically written analyses that outline the state of the play of music education policy thinking.

As policy participation remains largely underexplored in music education, the book helps to clarify to teachers how policy thinking does shape educational action and directly influences the nature, extent, and impact of our programs. The goal is to help readers understand the complexities of policy and to become better skilled in how to think, speak, and act in policy terms. The book provides new ways to understand and therefore imagine policy, approximating it to the lives of educators and highlighting its importance and impact. This is an essential read for anyone interested in change and how to better understand decision-making within music and education. Finally, this book, while aimed at the growth of music educators' knowledge-base regarding policy, also fosters "open thinking" regarding policy as subject, helping educators straddling arts and education to recognize that policy thinking can offer creative designs for educational change.

Readership : Graduate Students in Music Education, Higher Education Professionals, Administrators and Arts/Music Supervisors, Organization and Community Leaders.

Reviews

  • "Policy guides and informs curriculum, thus discourse about curriculum in the academy should have as a prerequisite a course in policy. This handbook-rich, intelligent, and diverse in its offerings-should be the textbook for such a course as problems are grappled with and considered."

    --Betty Anne Younker, Dean, Professor of Music Education, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western University, Canada

  • "Policy and the Political Life of Music Education superbly illustrates how critical policy is to the field. It underscores the importance of understanding how policy is developed and implemented and how it affects both music educators and the children we teach."

    --Hal Abeles, Director, Program in Music and Music Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

About the Companion Website
Foreword, Peter Webster
Introduction, Patrick Schmidt & Richard Colwell
Part I. Policy Foundations
1. Why Policy Matters: Developing a Policy Vocabulary within Music Education, Patrick Schmidt
2. Arts Policies and their local importance: From History to Practice, Richard Colwell
3. The Context of Education Policy in the United States and the Intersection with Music Education Policy, Ross Rubenstein
4. Policy and Research Endeavours, Katherine Zeserson and Graham Welch
5. Policy and the Question of Assessment, Martin Fautley
Part II. International Perspectives on Policy
6. Revisiting Bildung And Its Meaning For International Music Education Policy, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
7. Policy and Governmental Action in Brazil, Sergio Figueiredo
8. Music Education for Both the Talented and the Masses: The Policy of Assessment-Based Reform, Mei-Ling Lai and Yao-Ting Sung
9. Curriculum as Policy: State-Level Music Curriculum Creation and Reform, Stephanie Horsley
Part III. Policy in Context
10. Policy and the Lives of School Age Children, Margaret Barrett
11. Policy and the Work of the Musician/Teacher in the Community, David Myers
12. Policy, Access and Multicultural (Music) Education, Sidsel Karlsen
13. Can Music Education Policy Save American Orchestras? Alan Fletcher
14. Policy and Higher Education, Patrick M. Jones
15. K-16 Music Education in a Democratic Society, Robert A. Cutietta

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Patrick Schmidt is Chair of Music Education at Western University, Canada and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook for Social Justice and Music Education. Richard Colwell is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the University of Illinois and the New England Conservatory of Music. He is also a Guggenheim scholar and a member of MENC's Hall of Fame.

Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin

Special Features

  • Provides new ways to conceptualize and understand policy.
  • Connects policy conceptualization and examples in the field.
  • Presents policy in various facets from curriculum to research to legislation.
  • Presents policy in various spaces from school to higher education to the orchestral world.
  • Provides a rationale for policy as a significant part of the daily lives of individuals, from children, to teachers, to traditional decision-makers.
  • Introduces 15 new, unpublished, chapters that serve both as an introduction to the field and a way to re-imagine how we may engage with Policy.
  • Essential tool for educators who are experience the growing impact of policy issues on their teaching lives.