scholarly journals Can We Buy Virtue? Implications from State University Funding On Musical Instrument Performance Teacher Mandate

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Robin Rolfhamre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
State University ◽  
Music Pedagogy ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
University Funding ◽  
State Higher Education

Recent world developments have put a strain on the humanities in general, and higher education music performance study degree-programmes in particular. In an educational system currently promoting consumer-product relationships where the music performance teacher is very much accountable for the students’ development into professional musicians and, recently, also sustainable world citizens, we must give more attention to what, whom and why we educate? This chapter is an armchair analytical philosophical continuation of a paper published elsewhere (Rolfhamre, 2020). Taking the lead from Julia Annas’ (2011) virtue-as-skill, I will, here, elaborate on what implications the Norwegian state higher education funding system may have on the higher education music performance teacher’s perceived mandate from the perspectives of music pedagogy, rhetoric and virtue ethics. First, I pursue three different usages of the verb “to buy” to exemplify why I find the chapter’s title to be relevant and valid. This sets the premises for the following turn to rhetoric to highlight the starting point’s persuasive functions and incentives. Subsequently, I briefly relate the argument to Butlerian performativity to emphasise its relation to normativity, inclusion-exclusion and the theoretical possibility of “breaking free”. From this position, I draw on Aristotelian phronesis, mainly through the position held by Hansen (2007) to sketch up an ecology in which I ask how this all affects the teacher’s mandate?

scholarly journals UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STATE, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Ly Thi Pham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
University Autonomy ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Bottle Neck ◽  
University Council ◽  
State Higher Education ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Governance Reforms

University autonomy and accountability are central points at heart of governance reforms, which is essence of the relations between state, university and society. University autonomy must be accompanied with institution accountability as two sides of a coint. University Council and independent accreditation agencies are schemes that enable the schools to hold their accountable. University Council is representatives of all stakeholders, in other words, presents public interests in supervision of university administrations. Accreditation agencies are civil society scheme designed to help schools improving their performance and to provide public with information about the universities. University autonomy has been a bottle-neck issue which hindered innovations at institutional level. Therefore it is unavoidable matter in developing high quality higher education institutions as it is prerequisite for their success.

scholarly journals Biological Specifics of Musical Performing Memory Essence for Musical Performance Efficiency

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Dymnikowa ◽  
Elena A. Ogorodnikova ◽  
Valentin I. Petrushin
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Music Pedagogy ◽  
Target Level ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Effective Work

In classical music art discipline, the memory for musical performance (i.e., music performing memory MPM) at typological analysis level is the type of musical executive prospective memory. based on executive functions and biological conditions. Its structural components are semantic declarative, kinesthetic, and emotional memory. Musical performance concern the production of musical artwork by vocal or musical instrument forms. The efficiency of this process is conditioned by ergonomic, effective work on learning, and memorizing the music. It is regulated and organized from the level of ‘reading a vista’ the musical notes text until completed memorizing for target level of music performance. The article, from the health psychology mainstream, presents methodical, practical tips with recommendations resulting from the biological principles, regularities, and specifics of this process revealed in the empirical data of such areas as neuropsychology, psychophysiology, cognitive psychology, biological psychology, and music pedagogy, with additional independent empirical verification in counseling of musicians at professional music education level. 

scholarly journals Reimagining State Higher Education Funding: Recommendations from the Ithaka S+R Convening

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dean Ward ◽  
Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta ◽  
Benjamin Weintraut ◽  
Martin Kurzweil
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
State Higher Education

Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 686-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. McLendon ◽  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Christine G. Mokher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
State Higher Education

scholarly journals STUDENT SUBJECTIVITY AND THE LAW*

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE LINDSAY
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Student ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
State University ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
Legal Character ◽  
The University

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>[</span><span>This article examines the character of the university student in law in the context of wide-ranging changes to Australian higher education since the 1980s. The legal character of the student derives from two major sources: establishment of a university jurisdiction, primarily under State University Acts, and federal higher education funding legislation. With the rise of market/economic conditions in the sector, the student has become subject to tensions between these sources of law, increasingly resolved in terms of his/her existence as a “consumer” within a commercial university model. Alongside the older statutory university jurisdictions, the standing of the student is both increasingly complex and impoverished</span><span>.] </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals An Overview of State Higher Education Funding Approaches: Lessons and Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dean Ward ◽  
Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta ◽  
Benjamin Weintraut ◽  
Martin Kurzweil
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
State Higher Education

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Burnetts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
New York Times ◽  
State University ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Stanley Fish

In a 2010 article for The New York Times, literary theorist Stanley Fish comments on recent manifestations of the ‘crisis in the humanities’ in the form of language department closures at US universities such as at the State University of New York at Albany. Defending a ‘liberal arts’ education amid the neoliberalist reality of higher-education funding and knowledge production, Fish is nevertheless highly critical of a fellow respondent’s claims concerning the value of the humanities. This respondent asks in his letter, ‘What happened to public investment in the humanities and the belief that the humanities enhanced our culture, our society, our humanity?’ Fish advises caution concerning this line of defence, arguing:...

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