ERIC Number: EJ842150
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Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 18
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Musical Hunger: A Philosophical Testimonial of Miseducation
Laird, Susan
Philosophy of Music Education Review, v17 v1 p4-21 Spr 2009
Reflecting upon Simone Weil's conception of beauty as food, this essay proposes musical hunger as a metaphoric way of understanding a particular species of "cultural miseducation" as conceived by Jane Roland Martin, that disadvantages children musically and perhaps therefore also spiritually. It examines such musical miseducation with regard to an ethical conception of educational achievement as children's growing capacities and responsibility for learning to love, survive, and thrive despite their troubles, especially their mothers' absence, before narrating at length an educational autobiography of musical hunger and posing questions about formal and informal secular educative possibilities for musical nourishment.
Descriptors: Music Education, Ethics, Cultural Education, Educational Philosophy, Academic Achievement, Aesthetics
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