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Ch. 15 - In Search Of Music Education And Jorgensen’S Neoclassicism, Deanne Bogdan Dec 2019

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 …


Aristotle's Clivus Naturae, John Thorp Jan 2016

Aristotle's Clivus Naturae, John Thorp

Philosophy Presentations

It is usually thought that Aristotle's understanding of the soul sees it has having four distinct parts, cumulatively arranged, resulting in a kind of scala or ladder: all living things have the nutritive and reproductive soul; animals have, in addition, the sensitive soul, and most of them also the locomotive soul; only humans have all these plus the intellective soul. This ladder-like picture emerges from his theoretical work de Anima. In his more empirical studies, though, the discreteness of these levels is softened, and the image is more that of a clivus or slope, rather than a scala or ladder …


Notes On The Moral History Of Usury, John Thorp Jan 2015

Notes On The Moral History Of Usury, John Thorp

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Aristotle On Code, John Thorp Jan 2013

Aristotle On Code, John Thorp

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Aristotle, Females & Wind Eggs, John Thorp Jan 2007

Aristotle, Females & Wind Eggs, John Thorp

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Aristotle’S Worst Idea, John Thorp Jan 2006

Aristotle’S Worst Idea, John Thorp

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