Reflections on a Scholar's Life in Music Education

Abstract

"How is a person to live a balanced, productive, and joyous life as a scholar of music education?" I address four values that are at the heart of scholarship in music education: scholarly publication, scholarly teaching, scholarly service, and scholarly change. Although these values represent what Donald Kennedy (1997) thinks of more broadly as academic duties, I consider them specifically as pertaining to scholarship and within the frame of one's life as a researcher in music education. Here, I sketch aspects of this quartet of scholarly values that emerge out of my reflection on decades devoted to scholarship.