Diversity in Music Education

This key resource helps music educators develop a thorough understanding of important issues working with certain diverse student populations and provides pedagogical tools to help educators serve these students.

Teresa Stewart-Meli and Victor Antonio Lozada discuss the theoretical foundations and contexts of diversity in the classroom before delving into the wealth of pedagogical strategies and tools instructors can employ to cater to individual needs of students. They specifically address emergent bi/multilingual students, students with physical variations, neurodiverse students, and gifted and talented students as well as those with intersectional identities.

The book serves as a first step in understanding how to leverage students’ individual strengths and selves for music education in a variety of settings, including general music classrooms, performing ensembles, and private studios. It provides a valuable starting point for both pre-service and in-service teachers alike who wish to create a more inclusive music education.

“Teresa Stewart-Meli and Victor Lozada make an important contribution to the literature by expanding music educators’ understanding of the relationship between music and human characteristics such as multilingualism, neurodiversity, physical variations, and giftedness, thus creating a more inclusive music education.” -- Connie McKoy author of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education, Professor, Music Education, University of North Carolina Greensboro
“Stewart-Meli and Lozada have made a vital guide for educators. Music education reaches across race, gender, social status, and neurodiversity to unify. The importance of having tools for teachers to reach all students equally is important.” -- Blythe Gaissert Professor, Adelphi University, Mezzo soprano, Metropolitan Opera
“This book contains amazing information that I cannot find this elsewhere. It is brilliantly researched and written in a fashion that will make it a must-read for all music educators.” -- Thomas G. Leslie Professor of Conducting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Former President, American Bandmasters Association
“Stewart-Meli and Lozada have created an indispensable and important resourc. I am immensely grateful for this knowledge for myself and for my students.” -- Courtney Crouse Professor of Voice, Oklahoma City University

Teresa Stewart-Meli is the owner of Musicology: Music Studies for EVERY Mind and a passionate advocate for neurodiversity education.

Victor Antonio Lozada is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at the
University of North Texas-Dallas. He is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

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