Disruptions and an Event Horizon for Music Teacher Education.

My hope is that music teacher education remains vital because the work of music teacher educators is seen as being both responsive to calls for change and respectful of established practices where appropriate. During these past months, I also have realized just how dependent the music teacher education enterprise is on partnerships with K-12 music educators and higher education leaders who value teacher preparation as part of their mission. The responses of music teachers and music teacher education faculty to various policy shifts reflected divergent philosophies and conceptions of music learning. [Extracted from the article]