Call for Proposals
As continuation of our engagement with the vital and challenging questions that make up our revised Action Ideals, The MayDay Group invites scholars, music makers, educators, and innovators from around the globe to consider music as socially, culturally, and politically embedded action. This year’s colloquium centers on
Action Ideal VII:
An ongoing reflective effort towards understanding the context of music curriculum and education must serve as a common starting point for nurturing robust communities of music educators and learners. We are committed to engaging in a discussion which reframes all musical learning, including what takes place in schools, as a lived and diverse set of practices that encourages practitioners to be critically reflexive towards concepts of music pedagogy and curriculum as well as those practices represented in local, national, and global paradigms in education.
Any discussion of school and institutionalized music learning must engage a critical philosophical perspective questioning the conceptualization of what schooling is, what learning is, what curriculum means, and how policy can best support the goals of music as a lived cultural practice that enhances and gives meaning to the individual and collective members of diverse communities. Seeking to apply the same values to schooling and learning that we apply to music making, curriculum can be repositioned as a lived enacted process of learning and teaching, one in which all stakeholders are empowered to understand the cultural context of music, schooling, and ideas about learning and the institutions of education. As musicing is a trans-disciplinary and diverse global practice, an acute criticality towards cultural bias and hegemonic educational institutional practices must be maintained. This critique must also address the language of outcomes, standards, methods and systemic oppression of creativity and culture through cultural bias in educational policy and practice.
COLLOQUIUM FORMAT
Presentations — better understood at MayDay Group Colloquia as provocations — are designed to stimulate discussion and debate. Therefore, each presenter will be allocated 45 minutes, to include no more than 30 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 15 minutes for discussion.
Proposals that go outside the conventional scope of a provocation, such as a collaborative panel presentation, or a set of lightning talks including artists, P-12 teachers, and/or policy makers, are also strongly encouraged. Musical engagements will also be considered, and pianos will be available.
Presenters must be registered and in attendance at the colloquium. Presentations by other means (Skype, substitute presentation readers, etc.) cannot be accommodated. Projectors, speakers, and screens will be available, but it is completely acceptable to use no supporting technology.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS
QUESTIONS? Please contact us at: [email protected]
Action Ideal VII:
An ongoing reflective effort towards understanding the context of music curriculum and education must serve as a common starting point for nurturing robust communities of music educators and learners. We are committed to engaging in a discussion which reframes all musical learning, including what takes place in schools, as a lived and diverse set of practices that encourages practitioners to be critically reflexive towards concepts of music pedagogy and curriculum as well as those practices represented in local, national, and global paradigms in education.
Any discussion of school and institutionalized music learning must engage a critical philosophical perspective questioning the conceptualization of what schooling is, what learning is, what curriculum means, and how policy can best support the goals of music as a lived cultural practice that enhances and gives meaning to the individual and collective members of diverse communities. Seeking to apply the same values to schooling and learning that we apply to music making, curriculum can be repositioned as a lived enacted process of learning and teaching, one in which all stakeholders are empowered to understand the cultural context of music, schooling, and ideas about learning and the institutions of education. As musicing is a trans-disciplinary and diverse global practice, an acute criticality towards cultural bias and hegemonic educational institutional practices must be maintained. This critique must also address the language of outcomes, standards, methods and systemic oppression of creativity and culture through cultural bias in educational policy and practice.
- What philosophical, curricular, psychological and social principles and criteria should guide curriculum theory, development, evaluation and criticism in regards to music learning?
- Recognizing that music education practitioners are often operating within contexts that embrace the language of standardization and outcomes, how can the Mayday community further support policy decisions that promote a broad concept of musicing that includes diverse and varied lived practices that empower and engage teachers, musicians, learners, and members of communities in and beyond schools and institutions?
- Considering that music learning practices in schools are influenced by standards developed and imposed by national or regional entities, such as music educators, associations, and central governments, how can we organize locally to take specific steps to make theoretically critical understandings of learning a strong part of music teacher preparation?
- How can a clearer articulation of educational approaches that takes into account the institutional priorities, local conditions and resources that relate to implementing curriculum, work to reconcile governmental or other institutional influences on
curriculum with what we know of our students’ needs and our communities’ resources and values? - What happens when institutional priorities run counter to things we may know are important for students’ needs or to a community’s resources and values?
COLLOQUIUM FORMAT
Presentations — better understood at MayDay Group Colloquia as provocations — are designed to stimulate discussion and debate. Therefore, each presenter will be allocated 45 minutes, to include no more than 30 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 15 minutes for discussion.
Proposals that go outside the conventional scope of a provocation, such as a collaborative panel presentation, or a set of lightning talks including artists, P-12 teachers, and/or policy makers, are also strongly encouraged. Musical engagements will also be considered, and pianos will be available.
Presenters must be registered and in attendance at the colloquium. Presentations by other means (Skype, substitute presentation readers, etc.) cannot be accommodated. Projectors, speakers, and screens will be available, but it is completely acceptable to use no supporting technology.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS
- Please submit both: a proposal of no more than 800 words (references included in word count) and an abstract of no more than 100 words as email attachments. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
- State your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and other contact information in the body of the email only. There should be no identifiers on proposals or abstracts.
- Submit no later than midnight, Eastern Standard Time, January 30, 2018 to: [email protected]
- Proposals will be blind reviewed by committee and evaluated according to the following criteria: clarity of ideas, contribution to/interest for the profession, relevance and contribution to theory, and connection to the action ideal and surrounding questions.
- Notification will occur by email no later than February 20, 2018.
- If accepted, the primary presenter and any co-presenters must register for the conference no later than March 15, 2018 or forfeit their acceptance.
- Registration information will be posted on the MDG 30 Colloquium website at http://mdg30.weebly.com
- Accepted abstracts will be posted to the Colloquium website by April 10, 2018 and cannot be changed after that date.
QUESTIONS? Please contact us at: [email protected]