Why music education needs transformative politics

Gert Biesta, Tuulikki Laes, Heidi Westerlund

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Abstract

The chapters brought together in this book collectively seek to make the case that music education today needs transformative politics. Transformative politics is used to describe work done “in order to introduce politics and policies that may enhance people’s chances of improving democracy as well as their capacity to make better use of it to foster their aims” (Stokke and Törnquist, 2013, p. 6). Transformative politics requires systemwide change that is not simply adding cultural change to existing practices but rather is about new social organisation and institutional reconfiguration, experimentation, and reconstructed understandings and rationales. Putting forward this claim, including arguing why there is such a need in contemporary music education, is one of the main ambitions of this book.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Transformative Politics of Music Education
EditorsTuulikki Laes, Gert Biesta, Heidi Westerlund
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages10
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781003403036
ISBN (Print)9781032494951
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2025

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