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Autor/in	Stauffer, Sandra L.
Titel	Incomplete
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 10 (2011) 1, S.86-93 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Critical Theory; Musicians; Reflection; Teaching Experience; Personal Narratives; Music Teachers; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Music Education; Music Theory; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Musiker; Erlebniserzählung; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Hermeneutik; Musikerziehung; Musiktheorie; Kritik
Abstract	Elizabeth Parker's reflection on her experience as a musician educator working with children in an urban non-profit context is an uncomfortable read for me. In a courageous act, Parker makes public her private misgivings about her past experience and allows scrutiny of them in the form of two public commentaries as well as the private musings of "ACT" readers. The author offers this commentary from her position as a white, female, middle-aged academic who is not "native" in critical theory territory. Using Parker's piece as "point of entry text" (Kincheloe & Berry 2004), Benedict provides an adept and thorough reading of Parker's reflection through the multiple lenses and lessons of critical theory. Benedict threads through problematic matters of agency, ownership, legitimation, race, class, hierarchies of control, and constructions of children and childhood, thereby providing rich ground for further thought. As the author considers Parker's piece she realizes that she is complicit in Parker's troubles, not because she failed to critique or theorize, but because she failed to act. Parker's piece, and the author's actions, are incomplete--partial, deficient, unfinished. The author begins "the interpretive act (of) making sense of complexity" by peeling through layers of Parker's reflection and asking questions that arise from incomplete information in "the place in between" them. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
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	2017/4/10