Eco-Literate Pedagogy
Daniel J. Shevock

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On this website, I'm compiling resources that can be used to teach for ecological literacy, especially through sound and music. For more information, check out my book, Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy. In this work, I posit a new philosophy for music education on soil. If you have ideas for songs, compositions, or other materials that might be useful for teachers (music teachers and any teachers using music), please email me at djs541@psu.edu.

Daniel J. Shevock
Adjunct, Penn State Altoona (USA)



A link to the book (published by Routledge):
https://www.routledge.com/Eco-Literate-Music-Pedagogy/Shevock/p/book/9780415792578
A link to the Kindle edition (on Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0744PBCB1
The monograph

Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy examines the capacity of musiciking to cultivate ecological literacy, approaching eco-literate music pedagogy through philosophical and autoethnographical lenses. Building on the principle that music contributes uniquely to human ecological thinking, this volume tracks the course of eco-literate music pedagogy while guiding the discussion forward:
  • What does it mean to embrace the impulse to teach music for ecological literacy?
  • What is it like to theorize eco-literate music pedagogy?
  • What is learned through enacting this pedagogy?
  • How do the impulsion, the theorizing, and the enacting relate to one another?
Music education for ecological consciousness is experienced in local places, and this study explores the theory underlying eco-literate music pedagogy in juxtaposition with the author’s personal experiences. The work arrives at a new philosophy for music education: a spiritual praxis rooted in soil communities, one informed by ecology’s intrinsic value for non-human being and musicking. Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy adds to the emerging body of music education literature considering ecological and environmental issues.


Reviews:

Teaching for the future, Therese Boyd. January 11, 2018. A Penn State Altoona research & teaching article about the book.

Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy, Lise C. Vaugeois. August 13, 2019. In the journal, Music Education Research.

Related: Finding the Calm, Therese Boyd. April 8, 2020. A Penn State Altoona research & teaching article about the book and my continual work linking ecological and peacebuilding concepts.