PATRICK SCHMIDT
Patrick Schmidt is chair of music education at Western University, Canada. Schmidt’s innovative work in critical pedagogy, urban music education and policy studies is recognized nationally and internationally. Recent publications can be found in the International Journal of Music Education; Theory into Practice; Arts Education Policy Review; Research in Music Education, and Philosophy of Music Education Review. Schmidt has also led consulting and evaluative projects including the National YoungArts Foundation and the New World Symphony, and for the Ministry of Culture and Education in Chile. Schmidt co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Music Education and Social Justice. In 2017 Oxford also released his book Policy and the Political Life of Music Education.
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Punctuating the Equilibrium:
Claiming Policy to Enact Educational Equity
Claiming Policy to Enact Educational Equity
The 2015 UNESCO report Rethinking Education: Towards a Global Common Good reserves significant space for a discussion of the policy challenges faced by educational systems globally. Central to their apprehensions is the increasing complexity of policy directives, conceptualizations, distinctions within diverse contexts, and the processes of implementation and enactment they require. I would like to suggest that policy thinking and practice can become an important channeling element for such a challenge, particularly in the strengthening of local networked efforts, for instance, focusing on the organizational and practice changes that a discipline—such as music education—can adopt.