175- Decolonizing Music Education with Giuliana Conti

What does decolonizing music education look like?  Are there steps you can take to make sure you're making your music classroom equitable for every student who comes through your doors?  In this episode, I brought on Giuliana Conti to discuss this with me.  The advice she shares throughout the entire episode is awesome and you'll get practical tips you can apply into your teaching right away.  One of the best quotes from this episode is that equity means access, accountability, and opportunity to learn.  In the classroom, equity means thinking critically about what you're presenting, how you're presenting it, and your role in it.  After listening in, I can't wait to hear what your key takeaways are.  

Giuliana Conti is a proud educator, education researcher, and leader.  She has committed five years to representing nearly 15,000 colleagues in local, state, and national arenas while evaluating and developing the advancement of GPSS as an organization. She also has five years of teaching experience in the K-8 music setting.  Her recent focus has been on increased communication with stakeholders and partners, professional development programming for our constituents, and providing her team with a strategic plan grounded in inclusive, effective, and sustainable processes for the next three years.

As a PhD researcher she has carried out a sizable portfolio of qualitative and quantitative studies. These have involved standard and innovative processes within study design, need assessment, data collection, analysis, evaluation, and impact measurement. While my Doctorate is in music education specifically, she has a deep understanding of the practical and theoretical intersections between psychology, sociology, cognition, culture, learning, policy, reform, and student-centered curriculum development in K-12 settings. She loves teaching, and contributing to the success of others within education.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Connect with Giuliana on Twitter
• The Smithsonian Folkway website
• World Music Pedagogy books by Patricia Campbell

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