"Daring to Care with Music Education is a practical resource, reflective guide, and support for music educators. It offers a variety of approaches to help music teachers connect and engage with music students of all ages and stages. Daring to Care emphasizes how it takes courage, curiosity, creativity, and vulnerability to reach beyond the protective barriers of a "content only" approach, and into the unpredictable and nuanced space of knowing our students. Written by the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education, this text draws from the wisdom and experience of 70 international authors in the Handbook to offer a curated collection of strategies for reflection and action. Topics include: The role of care in music teaching, effective and appropriate forms of care, co-creating caring relationships, caring and musical development, caring with musical expressions, caring with identity expressions, caring to change the world, and caring for wellbeing and human flourishing. The text spotlights several successful music teachers who share their secrets as well as their vulnerabilities when caring for, about, and with music students"--