Music education involves multifarious human interactions, and fostering relational trust is
essential for those interactions to be authentic and pedagogically effective (Hendricks …

An investigation of the relationships between empathy, music learning, and shared music
values may provide new insights into the ways that musical meaningfulness and the …

Music teachers routinely work with students whose behavior is disruptive to music-learning.
Students living with the lasting effects of trauma may act as if they are chronically unsafe in …

Why should music teachers care for music education? Or, more fundamentally, why should
music teachers care about caring for music education? This chapter examines how care …

Drawing from feminist traditions, this article is a dialogical inquiry between two authors who
have written previously about the role of empathy in music education. Coming from differing …

Narratives featuring majoritarian (eg, White, male, middle/upper class, and/or heterosexual)
protagonists are so prevalent in US society that they have become the normative reference …

Martin (pronounced mar-TEEN) Urbach, drummer/percussionist, is a Latine immigrant,
educator, activist, and youth organizer. His work in the classroom is based on facilitating …

Humans arrive in the world primed for mutuality and belonging (Dissanayake, 2000). Before
birth and in their first months of life, infants attune to their primary caregiver's voice and …

This chapter provides a description of the compassionate music teaching (CMT) framework,
offering potential applications of CMT tenets (trust, empathy, patience, inclusion, community …

The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived impact of critical reflection on my
cultural competence and practice of culturally responsive caring as a high school choral …