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SUMMARY:Webinar! Series 8: The curricular imagination - Dr Janet Barrett\,
  University of Illinois 
DTSTART:20141119T180000Z
DTEND:20141119T193000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Music teacher education is often the nexus of our hopes and dr
 eams for the profession. How might our preservice programs encourage criti
 cal and creative thinking towards an imaginative and socially just music c
 urriculum? Now more than ever\, music educators are called to act as conse
 rvators of musical traditions and cultural values while simultaneously ser
 ving as catalysts for dynamic and contemporary musical practices. Critical
  thinking\, the capacity to consider multiple and often conflicting claims
  about the values of music education\, and to reflect with care on its mor
 al and educational ends\, is crucial in the preparation of teachers. Creat
 ive thinking is similarly urgent\, especially at a time when educational p
 olicies appear to move toward narrower\, more standardized systems of scho
 oling.  Creative stances depend on teachers who are willing to risk uncert
 ainty and who embrace continuous learning. Through teachers’ curricular 
 imagination\, we can address more liberatory\, equitable\, and fulfilling 
 musical ends.\n\n*Bio*\n\n*Janet Revell Barrett* is the Marilyn Pflederer 
 Zimmerman Endowed Scholar in Music Education at the University of Illinois
  at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include the reconceptualizati
 on of the music curriculum\, secondary general music\, interdisciplinary a
 pproaches in music\, and music teacher education.  Barrett has published w
 idely in music education and is an author or editor of five books\, includ
 ing the forthcoming Rethinking Education and the Musical Experience (Oxfor
 d University Press). She serves as immediate past chair of the Society for
  Music Teacher Education and editor for the Bulletin for the Council of Re
 search in Music Education. 
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 2S7
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