Karin S. Hendricks is Associate Professor of Music Education and Associate Director of the School of Music at Boston University. She is an active instrumental clinician and adjudicator, and lectures regularly on music teaching, motivation, and performance. Hendricks serves as President of the American String Teachers Association, has won several teaching awards, and served on editorial committees for the Journal of Research in Music and Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Her research focuses on compassion, connection, motivation, and wellbeing through music.

• Chapter 1: Caring and Music Education: Why Do We Need a Book about This? Chapter 2: Co-Creating Caring Relationships Chapter 3: Maintaining Caring Relationships Chapter 4: Caring with Musical Expressions Chapter 5: Caring for Musical Development Chapter 6: What I Learned about Expressive Arts Integration and Culturally Responsive Caring Chapter 7: Identity-Responsive and Identity-Affirming Pedagogies Chapter 8: Caring for Wellbeing and Mutual Flourishing Chapter 9: Caring to Change the World(?!) Afterword

Karin S. Hendricks is Associate Professor of Music Education and Associate Director of the School of Music at Boston University. She is an active instrumental clinician and adjudicator, and lectures regularly on music teaching, motivation, and performance. Hendricks serves as President of the American String Teachers Association, has won several teaching awards, and served on editorial committees for the Journal of Research in Music and Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Her research focuses on compassion, connection, motivation, and wellbeing through music.

• Chapter 1: Caring and Music Education: Why Do We Need a Book about This? Chapter 2: Co-Creating Caring Relationships Chapter 3: Maintaining Caring Relationships Chapter 4: Caring with Musical Expressions Chapter 5: Caring for Musical Development Chapter 6: What I Learned about Expressive Arts Integration and Culturally Responsive Caring Chapter 7: Identity-Responsive and Identity-Affirming Pedagogies Chapter 8: Caring for Wellbeing and Mutual Flourishing Chapter 9: Caring to Change the World(?!) Afterword

Karin S. Hendricks is Associate Professor of Music Education and Associate Director of the School of Music at Boston University. She is an active instrumental clinician and adjudicator, and lectures regularly on music teaching, motivation, and performance. Hendricks serves as President of the American String Teachers Association, has won several teaching awards, and served on editorial committees for the Journal of Research in Music and Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Her research focuses on compassion, connection, motivation, and wellbeing through music.

• Chapter 1: Caring and Music Education: Why Do We Need a Book about This? Chapter 2: Co-Creating Caring Relationships Chapter 3: Maintaining Caring Relationships Chapter 4: Caring with Musical Expressions Chapter 5: Caring for Musical Development Chapter 6: What I Learned about Expressive Arts Integration and Culturally Responsive Caring Chapter 7: Identity-Responsive and Identity-Affirming Pedagogies Chapter 8: Caring for Wellbeing and Mutual Flourishing Chapter 9: Caring to Change the World(?!) Afterword