This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by
responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a
moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center. The book aims to
expand music education's professional horizons to acknowledge the responsibility of the music
field to contribute to the demands of complex questions of sustainability and identify the ways
in which sustainable music education may be strengthened through an activist relational
ecological stance. It suggests a radical moral turn by asking: What if music education is
recognised as part of the problem of sustaining unsustainability? and What if music teacher
education was developed in and through dialogue with a futures perspective? These questions are
interrogated through a critical analysis of the historical positioning of music in education
and an interdisciplinary application of theories of ecology and professionalism.
