Bowman, Wayne - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education

In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from a global who's who of scholars. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by music educators everywhere. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all,

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CONTENTS

About the Contributors
1. Introduction
Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega
I. The Nature and Value of Philosophical Inquiry in Music Education
2. What Should the Music Education Profession Expect of Philosophy?
Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega
3. Rethinking Philosophy, Re-Viewing Musical-Emotional Experiences
David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman
4. Voicing imbas: Performing a Philosophy of Music Education
Helen Phelan
5. Philosophy of Music Education as Art of Life: A Deweyan View
Lauri Vakeva
6. Uncomfortable with Immanence: The Nature and Value of Music and Music Education as Singular or Supplemental
Bennett Reimer
II. The Nature and Values of Music
7. Learning to Live Music: Musical Education as the Cultivation of a Relationship between Self and Sound
Randall Pabich
8. The Grain of the Music: Does Music Education 'Mean' Something in Japan?
Tadahiko Imada
9. Musical Education: From Identity to Becoming
Michael Szekely
10. Teaching practices in Persian Art Music
Erum Naqvi
11. Understanding Music's Therapeutic Efficacy: Implications for Music Education
Diane Thram
III. The Aims of Education
12. The Impossible Profession
Christopher Higgins
13. Education in Latin American Music Schools: A Philosophical Perspective
Luis Alfonso Estrada
14. Must Music Education Have an Aim?
V. A. Howard
15. Cultivating Virtuous Character: The Chinese Traditional Perspective of Music Education
Yuhwen Wang
16. Ethical Dimensions of School-Based Music Education
Thomas A. Regelski
IV. Philosophical Inquiry Directed to Curricular and Instructional Concerns
17. Engaging Student Ownership of Musical Ideas
Harold Fiske
18. Understanding Music as the Philosophical Focus of Music Education
Keith Swanwick
19. Musical Heuristics: Contributions to the Understanding of Musical Creative Processes
Ricardo Mandolini
20. Nurturing the Songcatchers: Philosophical Issues in Creativity and Music Education
John Kratus
21. Avoiding the Dangers of Postmodern Nihilist Curricula in Music Education
Robert Walker
V. Challenges to Philosophical Practice in Music Education
22. Good for What, Good for Whom?: Decolonizing Music Education Philosophies
Deborah Bradley
23. Place, Music Education, and the Practice and Pegagogy of Philosophy
Sandra Stauffer
24. On Informalities in Music Education
Estelle Jorgensen
25. Music Education for All My Relations
Charlene Morton
VI. Afterword
26. But is it philosophy?
Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega
Index

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