Music, Education, and Religion

Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education—including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.

The book serves as a study volume for all those who are active in this field and provides both systematic reflections and useful empirical studies. A further impressive feature is the regional and religious breadth of the content presented and examined.

Philip Alperson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is editor of What is Music?, The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, and Diversity and Community and past editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Belal Badarne is Lecturer at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education and in Kaye College in Be'er Sheva as well as a music educator and researcher currently responsible for the Arts and Music in Bedouin Society, for the Ministry of Education in Israel. Margaret S. Barrett is Professor and Founding Director of the Creative Collaboratorium at the University of Queensland in Australia. Her research focuses on pedagogies of creativity and expertise, identity work in music, early musical development, engagement in music and arts activity, and music program evaluation. June Boyce-Tilman is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester in the United Kingdom and Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She is the artistic convener of the Winchester Centre for the Arts as Well-being and the Tavener Centre for Music and Spirituality. Amira Ehrlich is Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music Education at Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv and Academic Program Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute's Program for Ultraorthodox women in Jerusalem. Janelle Colville Fletcher is Head of Music and Senior Lecturer at Tabor College of Higher Education in South Australia and research fellow with the University of Queensland. Her research interests include musical identity, adolescents' engagement in music, music education at secondary and tertiary levels, and religious music. Frank Heuser is Professor of Music in the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include developing ways to improve music pedagogy and medical problems of performing arts. Estelle Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Music Education at Indiana University and is on the doctoral faculty of Walden University. She is the author of Transforming Music Education (IUP, 2003), The Art of Teaching Music (IUP, 2008), and Pictures of Music Education (IUP, 2011). She is the editor of the journal Philosophy of Music Education Review and the book series Counterpoints: Music and Education. Alexis Anja Kallio is a music education researcher at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, working as part of the Global Visions through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal project. She is co-editor of the Nordic Yearbook of Music Education Research. Alexandra Kertz-Welzel is Professor and Department Chair of Music Education at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany. She is author and editor of several books including Globalizing Music Education: A Framework (IUP, 2018). Hyun-Ah Kim is Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Theological University of Kamp