Seeking Aporia: Experiences with Teaching Social Justice in the Undergraduate Music Education Program

Autor/in	Sears, Colleen
Titel	Seeking Aporia: Experiences with Teaching Social Justice in the Undergraduate Music Education Program
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 15 (2016) 5, S.6-24 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Music; Music Education; Undergraduate Students; Music Teachers; Teacher Education; Music Activities; Musical Instruments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Musik; Musikerziehung; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Musikalische Aktion; Musikinstrument
Abstract	Maxine Greene's (1995) concept of "wide awakeness" challenges educators to think outside routine and comfort. She asserts that morality in education depends upon educators' commitment to problematize transparent and oppressive norms by calling into question long held beliefs. Socrates referred to this process as aporia, a state of confusion that occurs when previously held assumptions are challenged and new understandings are formed. What role can aporia play in the undergraduate music education program? How can we encourage undergraduate music education students to identify and question Western, heterocentric, masculine norms that go undetected in the name of job training? In response to these questions, this paper will focus on the experience of engaging undergraduate music education students in social justice based, aporia-triggering experiences designed to broaden students' ideas about what constitutes a meaningful and valuable music education experience. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01