Join the School of Music on Thursday, March 25th at 6 pm for its Music Education department's seminar on "Racial Equity in the Music Classroom," featuring presenter Juliana Cantarelli Vita. In this session, participants will explore ways to continuously embrace racial equity in the music classroom, further discuss issues of appreciation/appropriation, tokenization, and ways to connect to people/context in very practical ways.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita is a Ph.D. Candidate in Music Education with an emphasis in Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, and a pre-doctoral instructor at the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the UW. Juliana has completed Orff Schulwerk (I-III) and Kodaly Pedagogy (I) levels and worked at the Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy Course at West Virginia University (2015-2020), and at the University of Washington (2018-2020). In 2020 she joined The Orff Echo Editorial Board.
Register for event at https://music.gsu.edu/seminars-in-music-education/
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