The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education
 

Section

Section II - Action and Quest

Publication Date

12-2019

Publisher

Western University

Place of Publication

London, Ontario Canada

Keywords

music education, culture, cultural worker, image of thought, becoming, metaphor, labor

Online ISBN

978-0-7714-3134-0

Page

105

Abstract

Estelle Jorgensen’s Pictures of Music Education provides an exploration of music education through figural and literal thinking stimulated by a selection of metaphors and models. This chapter takes inspiration from Jorgensen’s approach to music education and explores how the changing idea of culture resonates with thinking about music education. It is suggested that music education and culture can be thought of together through a more politically aware stance or image of thought that music teachers can adopt: the music educator as cultural worker. By adopting this stance, the music educator enacts music and culture together, is critically informed by the changing cultural landscape, and agile enough to develop and adapt creative pedagogies in music education that offer freedoms and access to music learning.

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