Education
- PhD, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MS, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MS, Social Pedagogy, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
- BA, Elementary & Music Education, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Biography
Antía González Ben (PhD, Wisconsin-Madison) is Assistant Professor of 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: How music education establishes realms of normalcy and possibility that simultaneously cast certain pedagogical objects and subjects as “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 intended and unintended effects of advocacy discourses in music education. González Ben has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, among others. She is an editorial board member of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education and Canadian Music Educator.
Prof. González Ben’s teaching was recognized with a 2022 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 in music education, sound studies, and research foundations. Prior to serving the U of T community, she was an elementary public-school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin. She also taught pre-college music courses for middle- and high-school students.
González Ben is a native of Galicia, Spain. She lives in Toronto, traditional land of the Anishinabek, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, with her partner, child, and dog.
(Updated May 2024)