Humane Music Education for the Common Good

Iris M. Yob is Faculty Emerita and Contributing Faculty Member in the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, Minnesota. Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and Contributing Faculty Member in the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, Minnesota. She is the author of numerous titles, most recently Pictures of Music Education.

Introduction / Iris M. Yob





Part I: Critique and Clarification


1. There is no Other / Iris M. Yob


2. "On the Perils of Wakening Others" / Randall Everett Allsup


3. Music Education for the Common Good? Between Hubris and Resignation—A Call for Temperance / Hanne Fossum and Øivind Varkøy


4. Doing the Common Good Work: Rebalancing Individual "Preparation for" with Collectivist Being / Kevin Shorner-Johnson


5. Music, Resistance, and Humane Vibrations / Ebru Tuncer Boon





Part II: Pedagogy and Teacher Preparation


6. Inquiry-based Learning: A Value for Music Education with Aims to Cultivate a Humane Society / Betty Anne Younker


7. A Humane Approach to the Studio / Christine A. Brown


8. The Tuning of the Music Educator: A Pedagogy of the "Common Good" for the Twenty-first Century / André de Quadros, Andrew Clark, Emily Howe, and Kinh T. Vu


9. Navigating Music Teacher Education Toward Humane Ends / Joseph Shively





Part III: Educating Others for the Common Good


10. Friendship, Solidarity, and Mutuality Discovered in Music / Luca Tiszai


11. Rethinking Vocal Education as a Means to Encourage Positive Identity Development in Adolescents / Emily Good-Perkins


12. Rethinking Education: The Four Pillars of Education in the Suzuki Studio / Blakeley Menghini


13. Music Education in Sacred Communities: Singing, Learning, and Leading for the Global Common Good / Mary Thomason-Smith


14. Working with Transgender Students as a Humane Act: Hospitality in Research and in Practice / Jacob Axel Berglin and Thomas Murphy O'Hara





Part IV: Elaborations and Expansions


15. Nourishing the Musically Hungry: Learning from Undergraduate Amateur Musicking / Susan Laird and Johnnie-Margaret McConnell


16. Dissociation/Reintegration of Literary/Musical Sensibility / Deanne Bogdan


17. A Humanistic Approach to Music Education: (Critical) International Perspectives / Martin Berger, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, David Lines, and Leonard Tan


18. Towards the Discovery of Contemporary Trust and Intimacy in Higher Music Education / Eleni Lapidaki





Conclusion: On Making Music Education Humane and Good: Gathering Threads / Estelle R. Jorgensen