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60th MENC National Biennial

In-Service Conference

Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday, April 21, 2006

3:15pm - 4:15pm

Salon H-100

“Philosophy, music education, and world engagement”

What kind of world engagement is currently required of music educators? How do music teachers address concerns that are public, even political? Recent history has seen shocking displays of natural disaster and man-made violence. Surely we live in an age that calls for deep questioning and reflection. Are these concerns our own? Might music speak to events like Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, or the attacks on 9/11? Should music educators participate in “political” understandings? Can we participate in such negotiations?

We know that teaching is rarely located outside the concerns and aspirations of its citizens. Schools are public forums after all – grand experiments in citizenship, democracy, and culture-making. To ask if music education (or any discipline’s method of teaching and learning) is political is really to ask, “how far” or “how much?” In other words, how far do we go in connecting music education to world events, tragic or otherwise? How much of the world does our classroom engage in?

Philosophy is a way of reading our world and questioning what we see, feel, think, and hear. We can turn to philosophy to construct a rationale of world engagement that is sensitive, ethical, well-reasoned, and defensible. The goal of this session is to offer varied perspectives on the location music education and political or world engagement. Whether or not it should be attempted. Why and where? And not least: when and how?

Presenters

—Randall Everett Allsup, President & Chair: —Estelle Jorgensen:

Teachers College Columbia University Indiana University

—Julia Koza: —Patrick Schmidt

University of Wisconsin at Madison Westminster Choir College

			Philosophy and Music Education Special Research Interest Group The Philosophy of Music Education SRIG seeks to bring together a community of thinkers to promote philosophic treatment of the problems of music and music education.

	60th MENC National Biennial In-Service Conference Salt Lake City, Utah Friday, April 21, 2006 3:15pm - 4:15pm Salon H-100 “Philosophy, music education, and world engagement” What kind of world engagement is currently required of music educators? How do music teachers address concerns that are public, even political? Recent history has seen shocking displays of natural disaster and man-made violence. Surely we live in an age that calls for deep questioning and reflection. Are these concerns our own? Might music speak to events like Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, or the attacks on 9/11? Should music educators participate in “political” understandings? Can we participate in such negotiations? We know that teaching is rarely located outside the concerns and aspirations of its citizens. Schools are public forums after all – grand experiments in citizenship, democracy, and culture-making. To ask if music education (or any discipline’s method of teaching and learning) is political is really to ask, “how far” or “how much?” In other words, how far do we go in connecting music education to world events, tragic or otherwise? How much of the world does our classroom engage in? Philosophy is a way of reading our world and questioning what we see, feel, think, and hear. We can turn to philosophy to construct a rationale of world engagement that is sensitive, ethical, well-reasoned, and defensible. The goal of this session is to offer varied perspectives on the location music education and political or world engagement. Whether or not it should be attempted. Why and where? And not least: when and how? Presenters —Randall Everett Allsup, President & Chair: —Estelle Jorgensen: Teachers College Columbia University Indiana University —Julia Koza: —Patrick Schmidt University of Wisconsin at Madison Westminster Choir College

		Administrative Roundtable will follow: 4:30 - 5:30, Friday, April 21, 2006

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