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Ch. 09 - The Music Educator As Cultural Worker, David Lines
Ch. 09 - The Music Educator As Cultural Worker, David Lines
The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education
Estelle Jorgensen’s Pictures of Music Education provides an exploration of music education through figural and literal thinking stimulated by a selection of metaphors and models. This chapter takes inspiration from Jorgensen’s approach to music education and explores how the changing idea of culture resonates with thinking about music education. It is suggested that music education and culture can be thought of together through a more politically aware stance or image of thought that music teachers can adopt: the music educator as cultural worker. By adopting this stance, the music educator enacts music and culture together, is critically informed by the …