2025 Symposium for Music Teacher Education: Advancing an Inclusive Community: Renew, Reinvigorate, Recharge
October 23 – 25, 2025 at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana
| We invite proposals for the 2025 Symposium on Music Teacher Education (SMTE) under the theme Advancing an Inclusive Community: Renew, Reinvigorate, Recharge. This is a time of rapid educational change, and pathways to and through the profession are constantly evolving. SMTE provides a space to refresh our approaches, reinvigorate our practices, and recharge our shared commitment to excellence in music teacher education. As political shifts and uncertainties challenge traditional assumptions, we gather to critically examine our field’s foundations while imagining new possibilities. To promote an ethos of inclusivity, SMTE remains committed to fostering dialogue across the full spectrum of music teacher education research and practice. The Society for Music Teacher Education welcomes voices representing the rich diversity of our profession: music teacher educators from all institutional types, music faculty from a variety of disciplines (e.g., performance, conducting, theory, musicology), state and local arts supervisors, P–12 educators, policy officials, people involved in non-traditional or alternative certification, deans and directors of the arts, and students in music education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. We welcome submissions of scholarship at all stages, from emerging studies (to be completed by October 2025) to completed work, recognizing that meaningful contributions to our field take many forms. Proposals may address any aspect of music teacher education, including but not limited to empirical research, philosophical inquiry, promising practices, professional development initiatives, and policy considerations. We encourage submissions that bridge research and practice, foster school-university partnerships, contribute to an ongoing discussion around ideas in the Blueprint for the Music Teacher Profession, and/or examine issues connected to SMTE Areas for Strategic Planning and Action. |
| GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION:Read all information about the 2025 Symposium. The proposal submission system opens January 15, 2025. Submissions should be submitted on or before April 15, 2025, by 11:59 PM PDT. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Proposal submissions are divided into two large strands:Research Programs, Practices, and Issues (PPIs) Research proposals: Original research connecting to music teacher education, conference theme, and/or ASPAs. Works in progress are welcome but should be completed by the symposium date in October 2025. Programs, Practices, and Issues proposals: Describe specific programs, practices, or current issues in music teacher education. Include justification, rationale, context, and supporting literature. Learn more about the proposal formats accepted, proposal limitations, and submission procedures: https://nafme.org/blog/call-for-proposals-2025-symposium-for-music-teacher-education/ |
