Complicating Considering and Connecting Music Education

<p>In <i>Complicating Considering and Connecting Music Education</i> Lauren Kapalka Richerme proposes a poststructuralist-inspired philosophy of music education. Complicating current conceptions of self other and place Richerme emphasizes the embodied emotional and social aspects of humanity. She also examines intersections between local and global music making. Next Richerme explores the ethical implications of considering multiple viewpoints and imagining who music makers might become. Ultimately she offers that music education is good for facilitating differing connections with one's self and multiple environments. Throughout the text she also integrates the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari with narrative philosophy and personal narratives. By highlighting the processes of complicating considering and connecting Richerme challenges the standardization and career-centric rationales that ground contemporary music education policy and practice to better welcome diversity.</p>