Dr. Antía González Ben

Biography

Antía González Ben (PhD, Wisconsin-Madison) is an Assistant Professor in Music Education. Her research areas include music education philosophies, curriculum studies, education policy, and sound studies. Her scholarship focuses on the politics of diversity in music education, establishing realms of normalcy and possibility while simultaneously casting pedagogical objects as subjects of 'problems.' González Ben's work has been published in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, including Teachers College Record (2021), Philosophy of Music Education Review (2022), International Journal of Music Education (2023), Curriculum Inquiry (2023), and Sound Studies (2023). Her recent writing interrogates the intended and unintended effects of advocacy discourses in music education. She has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, and is an editorial board member for Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education and the Canadian Music Educator. In 2022, her teaching was recognized with a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. She facilitates graduate and undergraduate courses specializing in philosophies of music education, critical theories of music education, sound studies, and research foundations. Prior to her tenure at the University of Toronto, she taught as an elementary public school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, instructing pre-college music courses for middle and high school students. González Ben is a native of Galicia, Spain, and currently resides in Toronto, on the traditional lands of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

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