scholarly journals Introduction: The Politics of Diversity in Music Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Alexis Anja Kallio ◽  
Kathryn Marsh ◽  
Heidi Westerlund ◽  
Sidsel Karlsen ◽  
Eva Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Policy Agendas

AbstractThe Politics of Diversity in Music Educationattends to the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist, and separatist tendencies highlight the imperative for music education to extend beyond nominal policy agendas to critically consider the ways in which understandings about society are upheld or unsettled and the ways in which knowledge about diversity is produced. This chapter provides an overview of the scholarly foundations that this book builds upon before introducing the four sections of the book and contributing chapters. The first section of the book focuses on the politics of inquiry in music education research. The second section attends to the paradoxes and challenges that arise as music teachers negotiate cultural identity and tradition within the political frames and ideals of the nation state. The third section considers diversities that are often overlooked or silenced, and the final section turns to matters of leadership in higher music education as an inherently political and ethical undertaking. Together, chapters work towards a more critical, complex, and nuanced understanding of the ways in which the politics of diversity shape our ideals of what music education is, and what it is for.

scholarly journals Maramara me te Iwi Taketake: Data and the Indigenous Group

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cleave
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
The Way

This paper considers Indigenous groups and data. The paper begins with fifteen assorted questions which are addressed in various ways in the next two sections. The second section is a review of ‘Indigenous Data Sovereignty’ a collection by Kukutai and Taylor of 2016. This collection is seen as an excellent statement of the position of the Indigenous group regarding data and each chapter is reviewed in several paragraphs. Beginning with Kukutai and Taylor, the third and final section is a commentary on recent literature on data with reference to the Nation-state, Big Tech and Indigenous groups. This section considers a shifting situation involving machine learning and the hunting, gathering and farming of data. A reappraisal of the way data is used in the context of the Indigenous group, the Nation state and Big Tech is proposed. That reappraisal involves new considerations of identity in forms of ethnicity, nationalism and tribalism as well as the way Indigenous groups are defined by others and the ways in which they define themselves.

The British Journal of Music Education 2003–2007: an editorial retrospective

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Gordon Cox ◽  
Stephanie Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Home School ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
School And Community ◽  
New Ideas

The invitation to provide a review of the articles published in our five year editorship prompts us to evaluate the aims and purposes of music education research, and to consider the function of journals such as BJME in bridging the artificial divide between academics and professionals. We identify four themes that were prominent in the volumes we edited: the roles and identities of music teachers; pupil perspectives; blurring of boundaries between home, school and community; and music in higher education. Surveying articles related to these themes, we consider the questions they raise for future research, addressing the day-to-day realities of teaching alongside the exploration of new ideas which extend music education as a significant field of study.

scholarly journals TMESIS:

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Paul Blindell ◽  
Penny Skyes
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Compound Structure ◽  
The Third ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Architecture And Design

The exploration of our environment at physical and perceptual levels creates emergent and transcendent experiences; occupied territories that transform ideas into experiences. TMESIS (the separation of the elements of a compound word by the interposition of another, e.g. abso-bloody-lutely) operates as a language statement for the study of existing and proposed interventions within and beyond the spatial environment. Derived from the Greek temnein [to cut], TMESIS requires both a compound structure (absolutely) and an interposed fragment (bloody) to form a relationship, which places greater emphasis on the original meaning. It creates an enhanced and accentuated reading of the compound/intervention relationship. Wrestled free from these literary relationships, TMESIS is here expanded into a wider spatial context, developing a new methodology for the reading of compound architectures, interior interventions and their enhanced relationships. It provides new opportunities to understand the inherent dialogues and enhanced meanings that emerge through the intervention and subversion of existing territories. TMESIS is explored at three key levels, and introduces Heidegger’s ‘tool-analysis’ as a theoretical construct within which to examine spatial relationships. Through a series of case study examinations, the evaluation of insertion and intervention projects may begin to uncover and re-describe emergent entities and new design perspectives. The first section explores the principles of TMESIS and tool-being with reference to inserted and interposed environments within an existing (architectural) fabric: a descriptive device, which explores the primary concerns of differentiation. The second section will explore TMESIS as a subversion of the existing occupied space and suggest the political and strategic potential of this view within current global and architectural design contexts. The third and final section will propose that current and future experiences and memories can act as a TMESIS within the existing environment: that architecture and design operate as interventions and subversions of the existing paradigm.

scholarly journals Asylum-seekers and the ‘hyper-precarity trap’ in Austria, Finland and Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna K Schenner ◽  
Paola Cavanna ◽  
Natalia Ollus
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Drawing on both semi-structured interviews and desk-based research, this article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how asylum-seekers may find themselves trapped in conditions of ‘hyper-precarity’ in Austria, Finland and Italy, and how their vulnerabilities compare to those of other groups of workers. The first section of the article explains the different histories of Austria, Finland and Italy in terms of hosting asylum-seekers, before outlining the recent labour market dynamics of each of these countries. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of the different elements constituting the ‘hyper-precarity trap’ as experienced by asylum-seekers. These elements include discussions of precarity, vulnerability and law. The third section explains how the interviews and desk-based research were conducted and analysed. The fourth and final section of the article presents findings and their implications.

Stalemate

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Main Partner ◽  
The Third ◽  
Military Balance

This chapter analyses AMISOM’s challenges in Mogadishu after Ethiopia’s withdrawal. The first section summarizes conflict dynamics in Mogadishu while the second examines the state of AMISOM’s main partner: the second iteration of the Transitional Government under President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. It focuses on the government’s (failed) attempts to build an effective set of security forces and some of the challenges this posed for AMISOM. The third section analyses the UN Security Council’s decision to establish a Support Office for AMISOM (UNSOA) in 2009, in order to provide AMISOM with better logistical support. The final section discusses how during the second half of 2010 the political and military balance began to tilt in AMISOM’s favour as a result of two major blunders made by al-Shabaab, namely, the decision to bomb civilian targets in Kampala, Uganda, and the failure of its 2010 Ramadan offensive in Mogadishu.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Pentland
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
The Political ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Elite Politics ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

This book is a collection of essays that explore themes relating to liberty, property and popular politics in England and Scotland during the period 1688–1815 in honour of H. T. Dickinson. The first section deals with politics both inside and outside of the British Parliament and offers insights on the central theme of ‘the way in which elite politics and popular politics inform, influence and interact with each other’. The second section examines ‘the ideas, principles and assumptions of those engaged in the struggle to defend, amend or radically alter the political and social order’, including Edmund Burke, William Ogilvie, Thomas Spence and James Harrington. The third and final section focuses on ‘The Long and Wide 1790s’ and covers topics ranging from sedition and sedition trials in Scotland to naval networking, William Winterbotham's imprisonment for seditious libel, and three ‘citizens of the world’: Horatio Nelson, Thomas Paine and Thomas Muir.

scholarly journals Transmitting Cultural Identity in Schools through Traditional Music: A Case Study of Three Districts in Zimbabwe

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Shadreck Mataruse
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Music Instruction ◽  
Traditional Songs ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
Teachers And Parents

Traditional music may be used to transmit and preserve cultures of various societies in schools. To address the above concern, the researcher carried out a study on traditional music performances in three Zimbabwean districts. The study employed a qualitative approach. Audio visual recordings, interviews and questionnaires were used for data collection. The population comprised members from three districts and music teachers from the selected schools. The study revealed that music education may be of meaningful value to societies when local traditional songs are used. The study also disclosed that traditional music plays a pivotal role in instilling the expected norms, values and standards in children.  Respondents advocated that traditional songs should be taught to young generations because, through these, the young can learn the behaviour they are expected of, to become functional members of the society. The research recommends that local traditional songs should be used in teaching music. What is taught in schools should be culturally relevant to and affirming of the students’ lived realities. The school authorities should encourage the inclusion of local traditional songs in music instruction. Teachers and parents should also work together to transmit culture through generations using oral and literal means. 

The Wanderer’s Promise: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the “Nearest Things”

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Jill Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Aesthetics

Abstract In this essay I explore what might be meant by the “nearest things” in Nietzsche’s philosophy. In the first part of the essay I contextualise Nietzsche’s concerns with “the closest things of all” in the “free spirit” period (1878–1882) and raise the question of how knowledge of them is possible. This idea is developed in the second part of the paper in relation to the claim that dominant (Platonic/Christian) habits of thought impede our understanding of the body. In the third section, I suggest that Nietzsche’s interest in Epicurean thinking in this period enables us to situate the nearest things within the political aesthetics of a transfigured physis. In the final section, I examine how Nietzsche’s 1881 notes on eternal return provide a less-well known locus for his philosophy of the nearest things, one which suggests that to “incorporate” eternal return we need to become “good neighbours” to what is close.

Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Mary L. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

Constitutionalizing Sophisticated Racism: Israel's Proposed Nationality Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Jamal
Keyword(s):  
External Factors ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Nationality Law

This essay analyzes the political motivations behind the Jewish Nation-State Bill introduced in the Knesset in November 2014, shedding light on the ascendancy of the Israeli political establishment's radical right wing. It argues that there were both internal and external factors at work and that it is only by examining these thoroughly that the magnitude of the racist agenda currently being promoted can be grasped. The essay also discusses the proposed legislation's long history and the implications of this effort to constitutionalize what amounts to majoritarian despotism in present-day Israel.

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