Anita Prest

Anita Prest is an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Victoria, Canada. Guided by Aboriginal, Métis and non-Aboriginal partners, she conducts community-based studies to examine the integration of local Aboriginal knowledge, pedagogies and worldviews into public school music classes in British Columbia. In 2020, she received the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Education Research Excellence Award. Anita teaches undergraduate music education courses and graduate research methodology courses. She is a member of the MayDay Steering Committee and co-chair of the ISME Policy Commission on Culture, Education and Media. Anita is also a co-founder of the Special Interest Group on Decolonization and Indigenization of Music Education within the International Society for Music Education (ISME). She has taught K-12 music for 20 years in rural and metropolitan settings.