A new publication Music Education, Ecopolitical Professionalism, and Public Pedagogy from  Margaret S. Barrett and Heidi Westerlund is now published.

In an increasingly complex world, confronted by global crises and wicked problems such as climate change, colonialism, geo-political instability, pandemics, poverty and related inequalities, racism, and the rise of political systems that routinely breach human rights conventions, our approach to music education needs rethinking. This chapter outlines a proposal for a systems transformation in music education that shifts the field from an ego-logical focus to an eco-logical ethos and ecopolitical rationale that acknowledges the professional responsibility of music fields to address the demands of complex concerns of social–ecological and environmental sustainability. The concepts of public pedagogy and professional responsibility are introduced as a means to expand the professionalism of the field. The chapter introduces three narrative accounts, which provide examples of public pedagogy, and concludes with a note on the methodological approach employed in generating these accounts.