Potential contributions of music education to peacebuilding: curricular concerns
Author(s):
Elaine Sandoval
Publication Year:
2016
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
Journal of Peace Education
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
238-251
Volume:
13
Issue:
3
Abstract:
This article examines the potential role of music education in peacebuilding, specifically concentrating on issues of structural, indirect violence often unwittingly perpetuated through Eurocentric music curricula. I point out that such violence occurs not only in curricula that represent only European classical traditions, but moreover in the pedagogical practices or the ways in which music is represented. I draw on Walter Mignolo’s work on the decolonizing project as well as David Hansen’s theories of cosmopolitan education to theorize what a decolonized music education might look like. Ultimately, I turn to Mignolo’s encouragement of pluriversal cosmopolitanism to develop my own ideas of what a cosmopolitan music education might look like, how it contributes to decolonizing, and thus how it might foster peacebuilding at the levels of both structure and the individual student.
Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
Sandoval, Elaine. 2016. “Potential Contributions of Music Education to Peacebuilding: Curricular Concerns.” Journal of Peace Education 13 (3): 238–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2016.1234647.