Recentering the Arts in Public Education in a Globalized World

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Abstract

Using qualitative methods and theories of global cultural flows and literacy as social practice, this paper examines how an adolescent engaged with public schools across the Caribbean and the United States to advance his music education. A primary finding is that transnational movements combined with extended physical sojourning across Caribbean-US geographies and their educational institutions contributed to the youth’s development of progressively generative perspectives about the potential of US contexts for building his music literacies, and a correspondent constraining view on Caribbean geographies for his music literacy development. The paper contributes critical perspectives about learning across nations and adds to calls for re-centering The Arts in public education.

Author

• Allison Skerrett, The University of Texas - Austin