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Ch. 15 - In Search Of Music Education And Jorgensen’S Neoclassicism, Deanne Bogdan
Ch. 15 - In Search Of Music Education And Jorgensen’S Neoclassicism, Deanne Bogdan
The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education
In her landmark book, In Search of Music Education (University of Illinois Press, 1997), Estelle R. Jorgensen lays the groundwork for the philosophy of music education, of which she is today’s foremost proponent. Decidedly not a “how-to” manual, her book poses difficult questions undergirding a systematic reflection on, first, the nature of education (Chapter 1); the nature of music (Chapter 2), and the dialectics and dialogics of music education (Chapter 3), reconciling the tensions and ambiguities when music and education are combined as an autonomous yet porous discipline. Jorgensen cites John Dewey, Paulo Freire, Maxine Greene, Susanne Langer, Israel …
Plato's Bed: Essence And Archetype In The Theory Of Forms, John Thorp
Plato's Bed: Essence And Archetype In The Theory Of Forms, John Thorp
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The Theory of Forms is a thread that runs through nearly all of Plato’s intellectual career, being variously elaborated, nudged, and tweaked along the way. The project summarized in this poster argues that there is a serious ambiguity underlying the entire theory, an ambiguity that Plato himself never really noticed; at different times he was pursuing two different understandings of the Forms: as archetypes on the one hand, and as essences on the other. Each of these understandings has serious drawbacks.