“We all carry worlds in our heads, and those worlds are decidedly different. We educators set out to teach, but how can we reach the worlds of others when we don’t even know they exist? Indeed, many of us don’t realize that our own worlds exist only in our heads and in the cultural institutions we have built to support them.

 – Lisa Delpit (Other People’s Children, 1995) 

Spring 2021 – Fall 2021

PURPOSE

The purpose of the Joy Anthony Douglass Visiting Master Teacher Endowment is to provide for visiting master teachers during each academic year who will share their insights and experiences with current Crane students, faculty and music educators from the surrounding region. 

Crane, the Campus Community, and the Public are welcome to attend all events. 

Inspiration

The Joy Douglass Committee is concerned to action regarding issues of opportunity, access, and privilege as well as issues of representation and how representation intersects with people’s lived experiences in music education. We feel a pressing need to interrogate the ways curriculum functions as a tool of exclusion, especially in the ways it constructs and begets representations of people, artistic and pedagogical practices, and cultural touchstones.

As a majority white department and academic discipline, we seek to begin our interrogation by listening to informed, practicing voice of color. These issues are explored as they are experienced in PreK-12 and higher education music education classrooms in this year’s Joy Douglass Visiting Master Teacher Residency program. 

JUSTIFICATION:

In response to Dean Emeritus Dr. Lonel Woods’ curriculum reform initiative, The Joy Douglass Committee recognizes a need for preparatory conversation amongst the faculty, students, and alumni on topics of diversity, inclusion, equity, and access within the Department of Music Education.