Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy

<p><em>Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy </em>examines the capacity of musiciking to cultivate ecological literacy approaching eco-literate music pedagogy through philosophical and autoethnographical lenses. Building on the principle that music contributes uniquely to human ecological thinking this volume tracks the course of eco-literate music pedagogy while guiding the discussion forward: </p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>What does it mean to embrace the impulse to teach music <i>for </i>ecological literacy? </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>What is it like to theorize eco-literate music pedagogy? </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>What is learned through enacting this pedagogy? </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>How do the impulsion the theorizing and the enacting relate to one another?</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>Music education for ecological consciousness is experienced in local places and this study explores the theory underlying eco-literate music pedagogy in juxtaposition with the author’s personal experiences. The work arrives at a new philosophy for music education: a spiritual praxis rooted in soil communities one informed by ecology’s intrinsic value for non-human being and musicking. <i>Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy</i> adds to the emerging body of music education literature considering ecological and environmental issues. </p>