JANET BARRETT
Janet Revell Barrett is the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Chair in Music Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research interests include the reconceptualization of the music curriculum, interdisciplinary approaches in education, and music teacher education. Recent publications include Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching (Routledge), The Musical Experience: Rethinking Music Teaching and Learning (Oxford University Press), and handbook chapters on case study and social justice. Barrett also served on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the editor of the Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education.
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Fostering Critical Agency in Music Teacher Education
Music teacher educators face a number of thorny dilemmas when considering how to approach
the question of the standards in courses for preservice music teachers and graduate students
enrolled in curriculum courses, among others. I identify a number of perspectives one might
consider, eventually forwarding a critical stance that focuses on an ecological view of teachers’
agency by employing heuristics to guide analysis and action. I also draw upon Apple’s tasks of
the public intellectual and Higgins’ critique of instrumentalism in public education.
the question of the standards in courses for preservice music teachers and graduate students
enrolled in curriculum courses, among others. I identify a number of perspectives one might
consider, eventually forwarding a critical stance that focuses on an ecological view of teachers’
agency by employing heuristics to guide analysis and action. I also draw upon Apple’s tasks of
the public intellectual and Higgins’ critique of instrumentalism in public education.