Re-Imagining Curricula in Global Times A Music Education Perspective

Through this book, the author examines the role of music education within the larger global education movement. Specifically, the author argues music education has unique potential to foster positive global identity and to promote higher levels of intercultural sensitivity during adolescence.

Music educators can use the framework in this book to craft lessons that will help their adolescent students develop positive global identities as they progress towards higher levels of intercultural sensitivity within the context of musical learning experiences. The book also offers a framework that can help practicing and pre-service music educators to engage in the type of cultural and musical self-reflection needed to resist deeply engrained hegemonic tendencies. As such, more students have access to an inclusive, flexible, and meaningful musical education.

Within the final two chapters, the author proposes - and provides concrete examples of - a new curricular planning strategy for music educators which synthesizes the information presented in the preceding chapters and provides a concrete vision for (re)imagining music education as global education.

Dr. Jennifer Mellizo has been teaching K-8^th grade music at the University of Wyoming Laboratory School in Laramie, WY, USA for the past 22 years. She was named a Wyoming Arch Coal Teacher of the Year in 2014, the Albany County School District Teacher of the Year in 2016, and was a 2021 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Spain. Jennifer is currently a member of the editorial board for the Journal of General Music Education and publishes research and practical articles in journals such as Music Educators Journal, Music Education Research, the International Journal of Music Education, and Arts Education Policy Review. She is also a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences. In addition to her research and teaching duties, Jennifer writes interdisciplinary educational materials for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.