Globalizing Music Education: A Framework (Counterpoints: Music and Education) (Unabridged‪)‬

How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel’s vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the need for developing a pluralistic mode of thinking, while underlining shared foundations and goals. 

She explores issues of educational transfer, differences in academic discourses worldwide, and the concept of the global mind-set to help facilitate much-needed transformations in global music education. This thinking and research, she argues, provides a means for better understanding global transfers of knowledge and ways to avoid culturally and linguistically hegemonic standards. 

Globalizing Music Education: A Framework is a timely call to action for a more conscious internationalization of music education in which everyone can play a part.