Combating the Audit Culture in Music Teacher Education

Since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the 1970s, a “‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business” (Fisher, 2009) has taken over our social institutions. Until recently, this business ontology crept through public structures like an ideological specter, but advocates of “reform” have recently made their intentions more explicit, especially since 2016. As former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stated,