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Reconceptualizing “Music Making:” Music Technology And Freedom In The Age Of Neoliberalism, Cathy Benedict, Jared O'Leary
Reconceptualizing “Music Making:” Music Technology And Freedom In The Age Of Neoliberalism, Cathy Benedict, Jared O'Leary
Music Education Publications
Recent initiatives by for-profit corporations and funding measures instituted by governments intend to support the preparation of students for careers in computer science and technology. Although such initiatives and measures can indeed increase opportunities for students’ engagement with computer science and technology in K-12 schools, we question whose needs are being served, for what purposes, and at what cost. In particular, we ask whether music educators might be complicit in advancing technology that subordinates human needs—specifically students’ interests in making music in their own creative ways—to modes of production that benefit certain dominant commercial interests in society. After discussing how …
Pedagogical Encounters In Music: Thinking With Hannah Arendt, Cecilia F. Almqvist, Cathy Benedict, Panagiotis A. Kenellopoulos
Pedagogical Encounters In Music: Thinking With Hannah Arendt, Cecilia F. Almqvist, Cathy Benedict, Panagiotis A. Kenellopoulos
Music Education Publications
This paper employs aspects of Hannah Arendt’s thought to explore different but interrelated questions that haunt contemporary music education. We see the importance of a return to Arendt now more than ever as we find ourselves, three authors in three different countries, trying to contribute to democratic music education practices and to researching the conceptual base of such practices, in countries where technocratic approaches to policy development prevail. More specifically in this article we address the following questions: how can we re-think the political and creative dimensions of music education pedagogies in the face of recent educational policy trends? How …
Spaces Of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing, Cathy Benedict
Spaces Of Rupture: Wondering, Wandering, Remixing, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
This response is based on my presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrating the launch of Allsup’s (2016) book, Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. I enter the text with openness, and with a willingness to ponder and consider. As such I offer the following considerations for further “thinking through.” These are considerations, given the context of the book, I feel are necessary to address: independent musician, child centered / learner centered, or constructivism writ large, learning outcomes, and finally the space in the elementary setting for the kinds of pedagogical engagements and purpose Allsup outlines …
Acts Of Courage: Leaping Into Mindful Music Teaching, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Acts Of Courage: Leaping Into Mindful Music Teaching, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Music Education Publications
The authors explore the idea of courage in the classroom focusing on two populations of teachers: pre-service undergraduate students and in-service teachers. They articulate their own paths toward their own understandings of facilitating and recognizing acts of courage and share how their educational and pedagogical experiences have led them to think differently about the opportunities of doing and being differently as teachers.
The Social Constract And Music Education: The Emergence Of Political Authority, Cathy Benedict
The Social Constract And Music Education: The Emergence Of Political Authority, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
Social contract theory has been used to explain the origin, emergence and justification of governing authorities and as a way of “understanding the political relationships in which people already find themselves, including their obligation to obey the sovereign” (Newey, 2008, p. 133). It has also been used as a “nonliteral image [that is] useful in suggesting directions for social change”(Keeley, 1985, p. 241). Through the lens of social contract theory this article uncovers a series of questions that speak directly to music education in both the U.S. and Brazil. What is the nature of the relationship music educators have to …
"Free As In Speech, But Not Free As In Beer": The Performativity Of The U.S. National Standards, Cathy Benedict
"Free As In Speech, But Not Free As In Beer": The Performativity Of The U.S. National Standards, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
This article considers the U.S. National Standards for Music Education through the lenses of Austin, Searle, Butler and Foucault in order to examine the single point of control and sovereignty of governing organizations and to situate the U.S. National Standards as speech acts; that is, written performatives that essentially describe and enact particular sets of responses. I extend those ways performativity has normally been considered and suggest that the standards not only function as speech acts but as an icon whose continual referencing creates ongoing acts that constitute a process in which what they suggest and their enactment are united. …
Theory As A Second Story: Extending A Tale, Cathy Benedict
Theory As A Second Story: Extending A Tale, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Not Knowing: The Disappearing Act Of An Education In Music, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
The Politics Of Not Knowing: The Disappearing Act Of An Education In Music, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Music Education Publications
No abstract provided.
Processes Of Alienation: Marx, Orff And Kodaly, Cathy Benedict
Processes Of Alienation: Marx, Orff And Kodaly, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
Using Marx as a lens through which to interrogate music methodology, in particular those espoused by Orff and Kodaly, this article suggests that rather than the free play and creativity Orff and Kodaly intended, the implementation of these methods in a strict and unmindful manner, often alienates both teacher and student from musicking. Thus these methods have become more real than the music itself and as such, music making within them is abstracted from the use-value of musicking and consequently exchanged as a commodity. The article explains how methods become a form of production that serves to reproduce systems of …
Critical Pedagogies And Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political And Conceptual Histories, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Critical Pedagogies And Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political And Conceptual Histories, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Music Education Publications
This article considers questions related to educational practices taking in consideration three main concepts: Cultural capital, metodolatry, and salvation. These are taken both in especific terms as well as an metaphorical exercise for the exploration of pedagogical, policy and practice issues and concerns in music education in the United States. The article also makes reference and traces connections between subjects that may create a Pan-American mode of thinking; exorting a call for further, more prolific and greater scope in research and dialogue between North and South regions of the Americas.
From Whence Justice? Interrogating The Improbable In Music Education, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
From Whence Justice? Interrogating The Improbable In Music Education, Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt
Music Education Publications
No abstract provided.
Embracing Powerlessness And Empowerment: Coexisting Contradictions Within Teacher Preparation, Cathy Benedict
Embracing Powerlessness And Empowerment: Coexisting Contradictions Within Teacher Preparation, Cathy Benedict
Music Education Publications
This paper explores the ways in which narratives of the "real world" and narratives of resistance collide in teacher preparation programs. The author suggests that in this collision acts of resistance serve to perpetuate and reproduce the very systems these acts seek to interrogate and challenge. How then does this disconnect, between very different ways of seeing and engaging with the educative process, manifest not only for ourselves, but for our students? This paper seeks to address how teachers of teachers grapple with, and even embrace, the contradictions of powerlessness and empowerment that come from the mindful engagement embedded in …
Thinking Before We Leap: Examining The Implications Of Critical Thinking, Deliberative Practice And Research Designs For Music Education, Cathy Benedict (Kassell)
Thinking Before We Leap: Examining The Implications Of Critical Thinking, Deliberative Practice And Research Designs For Music Education, Cathy Benedict (Kassell)
Music Education Publications
No abstract provided.