Music Education in Inclusive Contexts
Summer July 2020 - two-week online graduate class
Course Description:

This class is first and foremost a class where making music together is viewed as primary to human development and that ‘inclusion’ (as difference) frames and underscores the very notion of what it means to be human. While there will be a focus on disability studies in music education inclusion will be addressed in a broad sense as well. Thus, the class will be predicated on the following guiding questions:

 • What is normal?
• Medical vs Social Model of Disability
• Are we all equal?
• What is fair?
• Whose culture is it, anyway?
• Who benefits?
• What is Gender Inclusivity"
• Why Decolonization?

One of the first assignments was to read the three articles below and keep track of any phrases, or whole sentences that are particularly meaningful or interesting. Students then wrote those out on paper, then asked to move them around to create a poem, rearranging them until they were satisfied. They made a recording (video or audio) of this poem and then recorded a narrative addressing WHY they chose what they chose. (check out Scholastic Reading Quests for more ideas like this one:

1.‘Social Justice Warriors’
https://observer.com/2016/02/the-totalitarian-doctrine-of-social-justice-warriors/

2.The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings
https://observer.com/2015/09/the-real-reason-we-need-to-stop-trying-to-protect-everyones-feelings/

3.The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild
https://observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/

Check out Angelina's thinking:

Cathy and Morgan practicing two forms of dialogue

They have been put into five groups of five - here are their websites

Group 1
Stacy, Jeff, Carrie, Andrew, Xiao

LIDEA Collective
Leslie, Angelina, Emily, David, Jamie

Group 3
Marysia, Jason, Adam, Chantel

Group 4
Shih-Fan, Marlee, Jasmine, Ben, Johnny

Group 5
Crystal, Shuai, Allahyaer, Duncan, Alecia