In this episode, I chat with Professor Kelly Bylica. Professor Bylica is a music education scholar and faculty member at Boston University whose research focuses on curriculum and policy, critical pedagogy, middle school music, and issues of diversity, access, and leadership in music education. Grounded in her experience as a middle school and K-8 general music and choir teacher in Chicago, her work encourages music educators to challenge assumptions and develop critically artistic dispositions through musical experience. She has published in journals including Music Education Research, British Journal of Music Education, Arts Education Policy Review, and the Journal for Popular Music Education, and contributed chapters to the Oxford Handbook of Music Composition and Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education, among other volumes. She serves on the editorial committees of Music Educators Journal and Journal of Popular Music Education, chairs the Council for Research and Teacher Education for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, and holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Western Ontario, where she was a Trillium Scholar.
