In this issue, alongside a bumper crop of job listings and call for proposals, details for Colloquium 32 are now live https://mdg32.weebly.com/. There has perhaps never been a more pressing moment for us to problem pose notions of sustainability, equity, diversity, and inclusivity. MDG Colloquium 32 represents a vital opportunity for us to reflect on our own […]

The MayDay Group is delighted to announce that Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 18.3 is now online! This special issue of ACT focuses on decolonization. With the work of Guest Editor Guillermo Rosabal-Coto, this issue is “special” in a couple of ways: first, the topic is timely and of great importance for educators world-wide. […]

For those of you turning your thoughts to conferences, there are several calls for proposals in this MDG newsletter for you, including GMEA, VMEA, PMEA, the Symposium on Research in Choral Singing, the New York State School Winter Conference, and the CMS Pacific Southwest Conference. For those on the job hunt or looking for a change, there are a […]

This newsletter contains several important announcements, the first being that the new publication of ACT (volume 18 issue 2) now available online. ACT has also released a call for papers for the next special edition on neoliberalism which might interest many of our members. We hope that preparations for the new academic year go well […]

Congratulations to MDG member Juliet Hess on the publication of her book, Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education, as well as to MDG members David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Gary E. McPherson on their edited book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education. The MayDay Group is also pleased to […]

In this newsletter, we are pleased to announce publication of TOPICS 2019:02 by Daniel J. Shevock. There are several calls for proposals of interest, including ISME’s 34th World Conference, New Directions in Music Education, the 4th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education, and the Symposium on Eudaimonia, Music, and Music Education. A reminder to those of you […]

Have you registered for the MayDay Group Colloquium 31 in Limerick yet? A reminder that presenters should register no later than May 1st, 2019. The MDG Colloquium program is being finalized and should be available in the next week. For those attending the Mountain Lake Colloquium or EAS 2019, registration closes for both of these conferences on May 1st, 2019. […]

This edition of the MayDay Group Newsletter includes:   Announcements: – New Issue of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education now available – ACT 18.1 Conferences & Calls – Visions of Research in Music Education: The Conference – May 24-25, 2019 – Jazz Education in Practice and Research – International research seminar, Redefining Academic […]

In this issue of the newsletter you will find: Announcements:– Congrats to Lisa DeLorenzo on her book, “Teaching Music: The Urban Experience” (https://goo.gl/Ahf7Hq).– @ISPME The International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education is pleased to announce keynote speakers Michael Apple and Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez for ISPME Symposium XII, to be held this June at Western University. – A Call for Responses […]