Sean Powell, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education at the University of North Texas, presents "Torn asunder: Reconciling with contradiction in music education".
Room 225, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto
FREE
Abstract
In this paper, I present a dialectical analysis of music education. In a quest to improve music teaching and learning, music educators tend to sidestep the internal, ontological contradictions present in pedagogical approaches and replace them with oppositional, external antinomies. In order to extract our thinking from structural cycles and serve the students present in our classrooms, we must reconcile ourselves with contradiction.