Realizing Diversity

How can we engage with diverse populations, repertoire, and identities while upholding integrity and achieving equity? What are cultural appropriation, othering, tokenizing, and essentializing? How can we avoid bias in our teaching and repertoire selection? How do we create a more socially just music education? This book is a groundbreaking and practical resource for crafting diverse and anti-bias music education in classrooms, ensembles, and studios at all levels—from preschool to university. At the book’s core is an Anti-Bias Framework intended to help music educators gain confidence and comfort in designing music curricula that are just, equitable, and make participants feel safe and welcome. Structured around the four social justice domains of identity, diversity, justice, and action, this framework explores anti-racism, gender and sexual identity, power and privilege, disabilities, economic realities, empathy, and critical consciousness, and it includes appendices with critical practices for educators and a sample curriculum. An indispensable book for all music educators, this considers the many separate but interrelated questions related to creating a more socially just music education.