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Dr. Mya Scarlato joined the University of Bridgeport as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Chair of Music in 2021. Prior to her appointment at UB, Dr. Scarlato served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York Potsdam for three semesters; she also taught K-12 music in a variety of schools including general music and beginning band at an international school in Seoul, South Korea, as well as general music and studio lessons in public and private schools in New York City.
As professor of music and music education courses, Mya strives to engage students in coursework that explores a variety of musical genres and music-making processes. She is persuaded by educational thinkers like Maxine Greene, who holds that curriculum ought to be co-constructed by teachers and students together to reflect the diverse needs of individuals at particular moments in time/history, and that art can serve as a powerful medium through which we might endeavor to re-imagine our communities to be more just, equitable, and free.
Dr. Scarlato's primary scholarly interests center around qualitative research designs that emphasize critical perspectives, philosophical lenses, and narrative methodologies. Scarlato’s scholarship has been published in Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education; Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education; Philosophy of Music Education Review; Journal of Research in Childhood Education; and Journal of General Music Education.
Doctor of Education, Music Education, Columbia University Teachers College, NY
Master of Arts, Music Education, University of St. Thomas, MN
Bachelor of Arts, Music Education, Luther College, IA
Scarlato, M. K. M. (2022). “This is Going to be a Learning Curve, Especially Because You’re White”: Becoming an Anti-racist Music Teacher in a Majority Indigenous Classroom. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 233.
Scarlato, M. K. M. (2022). Playing Upon the Blue Guitar: Toward Re-Imaginings of the U.S. National Anthems. Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education, 21(2).
Scarlato, M. K. M. (2021). Go Ask Alice: How is a Raven Like a Band Director? Philosophy of Music Education Review, 29(1).
Scarlato, M. K. M. (2021). Musical Fatherhood: A Phenomenological Study. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 35(3).
Scarlato, M. K. M. & Kim, Y. (2021). “But When Do We Get to Learn the Real DO?”: Toward Learner-Centered Pitch Practices in U.S. Music Classrooms. General Music Today.
Scarlato, M. K. M. (2021). Listening for Sounds of Striving: Maxine Greene and Stories of Music Teacher Becomings (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, Teachers College).