Challenging Systemic Oppression by Considering Critical Perspectives in Music Education

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Twelve
  In Roundtable Session: Considering Music Teaching and Pedagogy (Table 12)

Abstract

Educators hold a deep responsibility to help students not only discover themselves, but to also discover the world around them. A thorough understanding of systemic oppression through critical perspectives can provide music educators with the tools to establish an equitable, safe, caring, and liberated classroom. The most salient way critical perspectives broaden social justice research is through addressing systems of oppression through anti- oppressive lenses such as antiracism and critical race theory. Common themes from critical perspectives in music education include explicitly discussing race and racism, embracing critical pedagogy, and understanding decolonization practices. In this paper I detail how music education researchers embrace critical perspectives as a way to challenge systemic oppression.

Author

• Amy Belinda Lewis, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Presenting Author