JULIET HESS
Juliet Hess is an assistant professor of music education at Michigan State University, where she teaches secondary general methods in music education, principles in music education, and philosophy and sociology of music education. Juliet received her Ph. D. in Sociology of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She previously taught elementary and middle school vocal, instrumental, and “world” music at a public school in the Greater Toronto Area. Her research interests include anti-oppression education, activism in music and music education, music education for social justice, and the question of ethics in world music study.
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Revolutionary Activism in Striated Spaces? Considering an Activist Music Education in K-12 Schooling
MayDay Group Action Ideal IV challenges music educators to consider and critique the manner and the consequences of the ways in which institutions affect the musical practices that take place in their spaces. In the turn toward social justice and equity in music education, I explore the possibility of an activist music education in K-12 schooling. Given the hierarchies, limitations, and power embedded in institutions such as schools, this paper examines whether an activist music education must occur outside of school to be truly activist. I draw upon Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) “war machine” as a conceptual framework for this philosophical paper.
References
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
References
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.