srigmission

The Philosophy and Music Education SRIG

seeks to:

Bring together a community of thinkers to promote philosophic treatment of the problems of music and music education;

Clarify the practices of music education through participation in non-dogmatic philosophical thought; to embrace and endorse diversity;

Build on our rich history; to promote deep thinking about what it means to teach and learn music; to refine one’s beliefs within this tradition;

Broaden our profession’s conception of arts research, and to embrace and advance the speculative nature of philosophical inquiry;

Locate music education within a broader paradigmatic spectrum and so help teachers and policy makers define and redefine practices in ever-changing contexts;

Extend our research beyond the normative confines of Schools of Music and professional conferences; to cultivate fruitful relationships with those outside our immediate field;

Advance and improve the teaching of music education philosophy;

Encourage the participation of music education philosophers at the start of their careers.


	Mission Statement To be approved at the business meeting of the Philosophy and Music Education SRIG Salt Lake City, Friday April 21, 2006 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Salon H – 100

The Philosophy and Music Education SRIG seeks to: Bring together a community of thinkers to promote philosophic treatment of the problems of music and music education; Clarify the practices of music education through participation in non-dogmatic philosophical thought; to embrace and endorse diversity; Build on our rich history; to promote deep thinking about what it means to teach and learn music; to refine one’s beliefs within this tradition; Broaden our profession’s conception of arts research, and to embrace and advance the speculative nature of philosophical inquiry; Locate music education within a broader paradigmatic spectrum and so help teachers and policy makers define and redefine practices in ever-changing contexts; Extend our research beyond the normative confines of Schools of Music and professional conferences; to cultivate fruitful relationships with those outside our immediate field; Advance and improve the teaching of music education philosophy; Encourage the participation of music education philosophers at the start of their careers.

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