I worry that social justice may become simply a “topic du jour” in music education, aphrase easily cited and repeated without careful examination of the assumptions and actions itimplicates.
I completely agree with this statement, and I think that it's become a buzzword (like Alex said) in schools in general, not even just in the field of music education. Our district hired an Equity Officer about 2 years ago, and I was really hoping that they would have a strong presence in our district, at curriculum review meetings, providing PD, etc....I think I have seen them once since I was hired and it was at New Teacher Orientation. We have someone there that could be helping us to fully understand some of these terms/topics instead of assuming we know what it is, its implications, its assumptions, etc. but it feels as if they're not being fully utilized.