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
