2021 Call for Proposals for Faculty Panel
Big Ten Academic Alliance: Music Education
“Oh, What a Year It’s Been: RU Focused 2021?”
The Rutgers University Music Education Program invites faculty panel proposals for the 2021 virtual meeting of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Music Education Conference on Thursday, October 21, 2021.
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2021 - DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 13, 2021
Conference Theme:
“A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing” (Eisner, 2002)
The theme for the 2021 Conference is “Oh, What a Year It’s Been: RU Focused 2021?” The past year has brought a renewed energy and focus to many pre-existing inequities within music education at the PK-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. We invite music educators from across the Big Ten to reflect upon the past 18 months and consider what is both seen and unseen by the field of music education. Here are a few questions for consideration: How has the past year altered our individual and collective perspectives, professional goals, and vision for the future of music education? What has recently become seen after years of being unseen? How does the field move beyond this pandemic-driven moment to ensure that new ways of seeing music education remain part of the lexicon?
Session Format and Guidelines:
The faculty panel session will consist of 4-6 presentations of 15 minutes in length. A 30-minute community discussion will follow the panel presentations. The purpose of the panel is to critique past practices and put forward renewed and perhaps radical visions for the future for PK-12, preservice, graduate and/or community music education. We seek paper proposals that engage in reflective and creative ways with the ongoing dialogue surrounding the past year and a half including the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, curriculum diversity, and revisioning of PK-12 music learning, particularly ensembles (among other topics). We encourage faculty panelists to consider how the global situation has brought to light new and ongoing inequities and how we might choose to respond.
Presentations will be no more than 15 minutes in length and presented over Zoom. Presenters are encouraged to consider creative forms of presentation including poetry, song, and video in addition to the traditional spoken paper. Presenters may choose to use their own “screen share” functions in Zoom or provide their materials in advance to the moderator.
Proposal Procedures:
Those interested in submitting a proposal should prepare an abstract of no more than 500 words (excluding title and references). This proposal should address the following:
Title
Clear delineation of topic
Brief discussion of historical context (if appropriate)
Sources of data or evidence
Recommendations or discussion of the vision
Clear articulation of the presentation format
In addition, authors should prepare a 30-60 word description of the presentation for the conference program. Proposals should be submitted using the form below. Proposal abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. The proposal submission deadline is September 1, 2021 and presenters will be contacted no later than September 8, 2021. Notices will be delayed due to the deadline extension to September 13.
Reference: Eisner, E. W. (2002). The arts and the creation of mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.