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Webinar on Culturally Responsive Teaching

This video features Dr. Constance McKoy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Dr. Vicki Lind from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock discussing their co-authored text Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education.

Key Readings on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Abril, C. R. (2013). Toward a more culturally responsive general music classroom. General Music Today, 27, 6-11.

Abril, C. R. (2009). Responding to culture in the instrumental music programme: A teacher’s journey. Music Education Research, 11(1), 77-91.

Lind, V. R., & McKoy, C. (2016). Culturally responsive teaching in music education
From understanding to application. New York, NY: Routledge.

Kelly-McHale, J., & Abril, C. (2015). The space between worlds: Music education and Latino children. In C. Benedict, P. Schmidt, G. Spruce, & P. Woodford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social justice in music education (pp. 156-172). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Kindall-Smith, M., McKoy, C. L., & Mills, S. W. (2011). Challenging exclusionary paradigms in the traditional musical canon: Implications for music education practice. International Journal of Music Education, 29(4), 374-386.

McKoy, C. L., Butler, A., & Lind, V. R. (2009, December). Conceptually framing music teaching and learning within the context of culture: Implications for music teacher education. In Collaborative action for change: Selected proceedings from the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher Education (pp. 51-70).

Ladson-Billings, G. (2015). You gotta fight the power: The place of music in social justice education. In C. Benedict, P. Schmidt, G. Spruce, & P. Woodford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social justice in music education (pp. 406-422). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Ladson‐Billings, G. (1995). But that’s just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy. Theory into practice, 34(3), 159-165.

Nieto, S. M. (2002). Profoundly multicultural questions. Educational Leadership, 60(4), 6-10.

Reimer, B. (2007). Roots of inequity and injustice; The challenges for music education. Music Education Research, 9 (2), 191-204.

Roberts, J. C., & Campbell, P. S. (2015). Multiculturalism and social justice: Complementary movements for education in and through music. In C. Benedict, P. Schmidt, G. Spruce, & P. Woodford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social justice in music education (pp. 272-286). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Valenzuela, A. (2005). Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. In L. Weiss & M. Fine (Eds.), Beyond silenced voices: Class, race, and gender in United States Schools (p. 32-94). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Wright, R. (2015). Music education and social reproduction: Breaking cycles of injustice. In C. Benedict, P. Schmidt, G. Spruce, & P. Woodford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social justice in music education (pp. 238-252). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.