Grant Souder on Autonomy-Supportive Instructional Strategies
Channel: ISU School of Teaching and Learning
Date: 2023-11-15

Grant Souder is a doctoral candidate at Illinois State University’s School of Teaching and Learning. After 13 years of living and teaching music overseas in Indonesia, Germany, China, and Morocco, Grant Souder is now in his sixth year as a facilitator of music at the Illinois State University Lab Schools in Normal. The profound experience of working with learners all around the world energized his conviction in possibilities, educated hope, and the inherent potentiality in music education as a uniting force in the world. He seeks to create empowering experiences that foster agency, empathy, and moments of transcendent self-actualization for students. He also tries not to take himself too seriously. Currently pursuing his doctorate in education, his research interests include critical and philosophical approaches to education and music education, creativity, identity, and activating just opportunities for students in education. A bass player by degree but a dabbler in practice, Grant engages in varied forms of musicking and adopts multiple modalities as possible acts of expression and creation.