Music as metaphor and mediator : creating an integrative paradigm for education
Type
Thesis
Authors
Category
ECCE, Foundation, Intermediate, Senior
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Publication Year
2006
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Pages
332 p.
Subject
Early childhood education, Primary education, Music as metaphor, Education paradigms, South Africa
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to create an integrative paradigm for education based on music as metaphor and mediator. It proposes a meta-frame of inquiry to establish a meta-contextual perspective from within which a self-reflexive reframing process is expected to emerge. A system of ideas is presented, consisting of key concepts drawn mainly from the systems worldview and speculative musicology. From these, metaphoric maps are devised as a guide for mediating the proposed ideas in education contexts. It is an attempt to inspire metaphoric, aesthetic and intuitive modes of understanding and experiencing the world, along with the explanatory, which can affect a profound epistemological shift in the way we frame our inquiry.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of Cape Town, 2006
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