ERIC Number: EJ1089731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jan
Pages: 34
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Costa Rica's SINEM: A Perspective from Postcolonial Institutional Ethnography
Rosabal-Coto, Guillermo
Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, v15 n1 p154-187 Jan 2016
In this article I suggest that SINEM--the Costa Rican version of Venezuela's El Sistema--articulates a development discourse which legitimates neoliberal policies that govern the twenty-first-century international market, in which Costa Rica figures only as a subaltern. I contend that such articulation contributes to perpetuating notions and practices that are based in the colonial period and have sustained the imagination of Costa Rican national identity since the nineteenth century. To this end, I undertake a theoretical analysis through postcolonial institutional ethnography.
Descriptors: Ethnography, Music Education, Social Mobility, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Music Teachers, Program Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Practices
MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Costa Rica
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