Towards solidarity through conflict: Listening for the Morally Irreconcilable in Music Education

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2021
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Alexis Anja Kallio concludes the volume by exploring how music teachers and teacher educators might ethically engage with expressions of hate in the music classroom, with such expressions seen as one manifestation of the irreconcilable conflicts inherent in pluralist societies. She argues that the outright censorship and silencing of such expressions negate the democratic prerogative of freedom of expression, pathologise the enunciator, and hinder the extent of self-inquiry necessary for communicative ethics. Instead, she suggests that music educators need to cultivate skills in listening. Kallio calls for pedagogical approaches that foreground active, creative, dialogic, and political listening as the means to recognise each individual’s complex personhood, critically acknowledge the historical and sociocultural conditions that give rise to expressions of hate, and commit to a relationality that does not seek consensus, but may allow for new democratic visions of understanding and solidarity to emerge.

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Difference and Division in Music Education

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1st

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Kallio, A, Towards solidarity through conflict: Listening for the Morally Irreconcilable in Music Education, Difference and Division in Music Education, 2021, 1st, pp. 163-176

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