Trauma And Resilience In Music Education

"Trauma and Resilience in Music Education: Haunted Melodies explores the potential links between historical and philosophical studies of trauma, trauma-informed pedagogies, and their implications for music education. It acknowledges that engaging in music may provide ways for individuals to access and work through traumatic memory and attempts to support students who live with trauma. Trauma's ubiquity in society leads to an acknowledgement that damaging experiences likely affect more students (and teachers) than they leave untouched. In twelve contributed essays, along with an introduction and conclusion by the co-editors, personal experiences describe the powerful effects of music. Topics include but are not limited to philosophical, psychological, sociological, empirical, and narrative perspectives related to pedagogies of trauma; how trauma-informed education practices might provide guidelines for music educators in settings outside of trauma-informed schools; interrogation of how music and music education may be a source of trauma; and music's potential role in healing"--