Cathy Benedict
Biographic Data
| ID | 4860974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy Benedict |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Benedict |
| SIGNATURE | BENEDICT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6820-5585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Retirement From Academia: Women, Invisibility, and the Unexamined Transition in Higher Music Education
In this study, we explore how women in higher music education, both retired and approaching retirement, negotiate questions of identity, legacy, and purpose within the gendered structures of academic life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 women in music teacher preparation programs, we examine how participants articulate their transitions out of institutional roles while navigating the emotional, intellectual, and relational dimensions of r…
Reconceptualizing “Music Making: ” Music Technology and Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism
Recent initiatives by for-profit corporations and funding measures instituted by governments intend to support the preparation of students for careers in computer science and technology. Although such initiatives and measures can indeed increase opportunities for students' engagement with computer science and technology in K-12 schools, we question whose needs are being served, for what purposes, and at what cost. In particular, we ask whether mu…
Spaces of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing
This response is based on my presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrating the launch of Allsup’s (2016) book, Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. I enter the text with openness, and with a willingness to ponder and consider. As such I offer the following considerations for further “thinking through.” These are considerations, given the context of the book, I feel are necessary to address: ind…
Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education
The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education
This handbook seeks to present a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of social justice in music education. Contributors from around the world interrogate the complex, multidimensional, and often contested nature of social justice and music education from a variety of philosophical, political, social, and cultural perspectives. Although many chapters take as their starting point an analysis of how dominant political, educational, and musical ide…
Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education
Even though there are multiple literacies, the preoccupation and even reliance on the primacy of functional literacy, as seen as an end-point in the formal process of schooling, masks an ideology that rarely goes interrogated throughout all disciplines. This article considers the obligation and structure of functional literacy, and, in particular, scripted curriculum, as an imposition of meaning. Broad constructions of literacy, as have been addr…
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Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education
Even though there are multiple literacies, the preoccupation and even reliance on the primacy of functional literacy, as seen as an end-point in the formal process of schooling, masks an ideology that rarely goes interrogated throughout all disciplines. This article considers the obligation and structure of functional literacy, and, in particular, scripted curriculum, as an imposition of meaning. Broad constructions of literacy, as have been addr…
Reconceptualizing “Music Making: ” Music Technology and Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism
Recent initiatives by for-profit corporations and funding measures instituted by governments intend to support the preparation of students for careers in computer science and technology. Although such initiatives and measures can indeed increase opportunities for students' engagement with computer science and technology in K-12 schools, we question whose needs are being served, for what purposes, and at what cost. In particular, we ask whether mu…
Spaces of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing
This response is based on my presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrating the launch of Allsup’s (2016) book, Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. I enter the text with openness, and with a willingness to ponder and consider. As such I offer the following considerations for further “thinking through.” These are considerations, given the context of the book, I feel are necessary to address: ind…
Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education
Even though there are multiple literacies, the preoccupation and even reliance on the primacy of functional literacy, as seen as an end-point in the formal process of schooling, masks an ideology that rarely goes interrogated throughout all disciplines. This article considers the obligation and structure of functional literacy, and, in particular, scripted curriculum, as an imposition of meaning. Broad constructions of literacy, as have been addr…
This Issue
The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education
This handbook seeks to present a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of social justice in music education. Contributors from around the world interrogate the complex, multidimensional, and often contested nature of social justice and music education from a variety of philosophical, political, social, and cultural perspectives. Although many chapters take as their starting point an analysis of how dominant political, educational, and musical ide…
Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education
Spaces of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing
This response is based on my presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrating the launch of Allsup’s (2016) book, Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. I enter the text with openness, and with a willingness to ponder and consider. As such I offer the following considerations for further “thinking through.” These are considerations, given the context of the book, I feel are necessary to address: ind…
Reconceptualizing “Music Making: ” Music Technology and Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism
Recent initiatives by for-profit corporations and funding measures instituted by governments intend to support the preparation of students for careers in computer science and technology. Although such initiatives and measures can indeed increase opportunities for students' engagement with computer science and technology in K-12 schools, we question whose needs are being served, for what purposes, and at what cost. In particular, we ask whether mu…
Navigating Retirement From Academia: Women, Invisibility, and the Unexamined Transition in Higher Music Education
In this study, we explore how women in higher music education, both retired and approaching retirement, negotiate questions of identity, legacy, and purpose within the gendered structures of academic life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 women in music teacher preparation programs, we examine how participants articulate their transitions out of institutional roles while navigating the emotional, intellectual, and relational dimensions of r…
Diverse Music Education Insights (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works)