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Connect with Professionals

Professional Organizations

Student membership is often very affordable! Here are just a few benefits of joining an organization:

  • Connect with performers, instrument makers, and more
  • Get first notice of scholarships, competitions, and job openings
  • Attend festivals and events at reduced cost

Professional Journals (selections)

Journals are a great place to learn from experts about the most recent developments in your field.
Search articles online or browse the Allen Library current periodicals (near the Allen entrance). Here are just a few to get started:

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Advocacy Books in the Allen Library (selections)

Assessment Books in the Allen Library (selections)

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (selections)

Difference and Division in Music Education

Recognises that music education is always both inclusive and exclusive, and considers the responsibility of music education to respond to rising social discord and tensions.

Including Everyone

Also available as an e-book.
Rather than focusing on students' disabilities, this book equips music teachers with 5 principles of inclusive instruction for all learners in the classroom and rehearsal room.

Music, Education, and Diversity

Discusses the role music can play as a bridge to cultural understanding. Examines the promises and pitfalls in shaping multicultural education through music.

Music and Social Justice

Scenarios, example dialogue, unit ideas, and lesson plans for teachers to lead students (ages 6-14) to think critically about the world around them.

Marginalized Voices in Music Education

Looks at marginalization and privilege in music education in order to critique prevailing assumptions and to recast the profession as fertile ground for transformation, experimentation, and renewal.

Music Education for Social Change

E-book only.
Grounded with practical examples, this book considers how music education can contribute to changing the social climate via social justice and anti-oppression.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education

Frames social justice within social, historical, cultural, and political contexts; grapples with issues of inclusivity and diversity, racism, and other cycles of injustice in music pedagogy; and offers specific examples of social justice in action.

Realizing Diversity: An Equity Framework for Music Education

A practical resource for crafting diverse and anti-bias music education in classrooms, ensembles, and studios at all levels--from preschool to university and community settings.

The Singing Teacher's Guide to Transgender Voices

Equips teachers with a perspective on transgender students' struggles and with resources to guide them to a healthy, joyful, and safe singing life.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

Equips teachers with proven curricular strategies grounded in best practice and current law. Addresses parental involvement, student anxiety, field trips and performances, and assessment strategies.

World Music Pedagogy

Details theoretical and practical aspects of world music pedagogy contributing to the diversification of repertoire and instructional approaches.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (find more)

Browse by subject in the catalog, for example: (You may want to limit your search results to Allen Library for music/dance materials.)

Children with disabilities > Education 
Culturally relevant pedagogy
Inclusive education
Multicultural education 
Music > Instruction and study > Social aspects 
Music > Social aspects 
Social action 
Social justice and education

See also our related guides:

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Know of a resource you think should be added to this guide? Let us know!

Want to suggest we purchase something new? Contact Tracey Rudnick (rudnick@hartford.edu).

 

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