Challenging Age Power Structures: Creating a Public Sphere in Preschool through "Musicking"

Autor/in	Wassrin, Maria
Titel	Challenging Age Power Structures: Creating a Public Sphere in Preschool through "Musicking"
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 15 (2016) 5, S.25-50 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Music; Music Education; Music Activities; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Toddlers; Early Childhood Education; Singing; Musical Instruments; Music Teachers; Preschool Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Musikerziehung; Musikalische Aktion; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Gesang; Musikinstrument; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin
Abstract	This article explores the possibility of conceiving preschool music activities as a way of forming spaces of participation with society's youngest. The discussion draws on Hannah Arendt's ([1958] 1998) definition of public spheres, and the argumentation is closely linked to an empirical example from musicking events with 1-3 year olds in a non-typical, arts-focused Swedish preschool. In their promotion of equality and plurality in this preschool, the children and the music pedagogues co-construct a public sphere by using a multitude of "languages" and challenge both the hegemonic position of verbal language and other age power structures. In this promotion, other "subjects of music" come into being. Thus, it is argued that society can perceive children as legitimized citizens in the "here and now" and not only in a distant future when they have become fully educated adults. The article challenges current preschool music education and demonstrates alternative social constructions. (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