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This episode investigates the history of music education, the cultural shifts that have occurred in America since the middle part of the 1800s until today, and how that may have sculpted and framed the various music methodologies that we currently use in American public school education programs.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

Class Dismissed, a “film about learning outside of the classroom”

A Concise History of American Music Education by Michael Mark

Duke’s mod-u Social Science Research Institute

This timeline of the history of American Education

This video published by the Lowell Mason House

PBS’s History Detectives Slave Songbook

The Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning Channel’s interview with Diane Ravitch

Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future

This Kennedy Center video

The Child’s Bill of Rights published by the MENC

Eyes on the Prize, Episode 13

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This episode continues the dialogue about equity in education and will conclude with a personal critical pedagogy statement.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

Wings by Christopher Myers

Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education: From Understanding to Application, Lind & McKoy

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice

https://www.pblworks.org

Nancy Gallavan’s Checklist for Cultural Competence

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This episode uses a reading of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) as a jumping-off point to look at diversity, equity and inclusion in music education.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

• “A Philosophy of Outreach,” an upcoming paper by Dr. Adrian Barnes

• How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green

• The work of Bryan Powell

• The work of Susan Katherina Langer, including Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art

• Resources that could serve as a starting place for Allison’s Tracing it Back project: https://teachrock.org/traceitback/

• The Servant as Leader by Robert K. Greenleaf

• Transformational Leadership for the Helping Professions: Engaging Head, Heart, and Soul by Jean F. East

• James Banks’ Approaches to Multicultural Curricular Reform

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We try to tackle the sins of the past in music education and look for solutions.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

What is it Like to Be a Bat?

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We try to tackle the sins of the past in music education and look for solutions.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

• Songs with a Questionable Past All-Encompassing Document

• ... Facebook. We mentioned Facebook a lot.

• Teaching Tolerance

• Educators for Equality

• Teaching for Openings: Pedagogy as Dialect (Greene)

• A Talk to Teachers (Baldwin)

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

• We Were Eight Years in Power

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You