Gathering of the International Society for Philosophy of Music Education
“Music Education Philosophy as a Call for Dissent: An Informal Symposium”
July 13th – 14th 2012, Athens, Greece
Join us for conversation, presentations, panel discussions, music and taverns in historical Athens before travelling to the opening of the 30th ISME World Conference in Thessaloniki. If you did not submit an abstract but will attend our gathering, please email either Panos or Cathy so that they can include you in the discussions. We welcome both professors and students!
Hosted by the co-chairs of the 2013 The Ninth International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education, Cathy Benedict & Panos Kanellopoulos, in collaboration with the Departments of Early Childhood Education of the University of Thessaly and the University of Athens, the meeting will take place at The Athens University Museum (Μουσείο Ιστορίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Tholou Str. 5, Plaka, Athens). Join us Friday evening for an initial round table discussion followed by a short concert, and Saturday for engaging discussion and presentations.
The Athens University Museum is situated in the heart of Athens city, in the Plaka area, on the northern side of the Acropolis. The Museum is located in the historical building of “Kleanthis Residence,” which is also known as “The Old University” where the first University of the Greek Independent State operated during the period of 1837 to 1841. http://www.history-museum.uoa.gr/vrtour.php?langId=1. Planes and trains run frequently between Athens and Thessaloniki. Journey by plane takes 30 minutes, and by train 4.30-5.30 hrs.
There will not be a conference hotel attached to this meeting as there are many hotels in the historic Plaka area. In order for there to be coffee and tea breaks during the meeting there will be a small conference fee attached to the registration. At the time of the meeting presenters must be members of ISPME.
We look forward to seeing you then!
Please feel free to email either Panos or Cathy with any questions.
Panos Kanellopoulos pankanel@gmail.com
Cathy Benedict cathy.benedict@fiu.ed
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Change of NAfME Policy Regarding Registration for Guest Speakers.
At the meeting of SRIG chairs during the 2010 1st NAfME Biennial National Music Educators National Conference held in Anaheim, California, Vince Bates questioned the policy of requiring guest speakers from outside of the music education community to pay the conference registration fee.
Consequently a letter was submitted by the Philosophy SRIG on behalf of several SRIG’s to the National Executive Board of MENC after the 2010 Anaheim meeting, requesting that NEB consider a change of policy that would allow chairs to invite guest speakers who are not MENC members to participate in SRIG sessions, and to waive those presenters’ registration fees. The change of policy is explained below. Please note that no expenses are covered and no fees are provided for guest presenters.
Registration Policies
NAfME’s general rule has long been that all attendees, including presenters, at NAfME conferences must pay registration fees and defray all costs connected with their attendance. However, the following exceptions are suggested:
Biennial Music Educators National Conference
* Presenters of acknowledged eminence, whose principal area of professional activity is in a field outside of music education, may have their registration fees waived for the event.
* Presenters whose place of residence is outside of the United States may be extended NAfME member registration rates without the requirement of joining the association, where they are a member of an appropriate national or international organization outside of the United States.
* A limited number of presenters invited to keynote plenary sessions may have their registration fees waived for the event.
Registration practices
As the general rule is that all attendees pay registration fees and are not afforded other support, each departure from this rule requires a waiver that (1) follows one of the rules above, and (2) is submitted by the Academy chair (for MEWW) or Society chair (for the Biennial) and approved by the MENC President. Note that:
* The President will normally ask the chair of the Professional Development Council or his designated conference chair to approve these waivers as the President’s designee.
* The design of Academies will be accomplished with the intent of keeping the need for these waivers to a minimum and hence maintaining the economic viability of the event.
(Please note that the Philosophy SRIG has also asked that the wording in the penultimate paragraph be changed to read “the,” rather than “his”.)
Hello All
Just wanted to touch base and thank you all for coming to the SRIG meeting in Anaheim. For those of you who weren’t able to attend the papers were provocative, self-reflective, honest and beautifully crafted. If anything it was a session in which care with language, thoughts and meanings flowed throughout the room.
The session began with Patrick Schmidt locating the issue of critique and review by inviting us to consider the following question:
“As we sit at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, how do we locate music education journals and other scholarship between the conservation of preferred views and the expansion of multiple forms of knowing?”
To a room of over 75 people Professor Jorgensen stepped up to the plate to articulate with courage, honesty and balance the multiple and problematic processes of the critique/review. She not only reminded us philosophy is very much about “testing out ideas in the laboratory of ideas” she also modeled to us those ways we might “reclaim and revisit” conversations that must be had within the realm of research publishing. Philosophy as research “unmasks taken-for-granted assumptions and unpacks ideas, practices, and language that might otherwise be taken to be unproblematic.” How pertinent, then, in this first meeting of Higher Education in NAfME, to attend to Higher Education as a whole so that we might unpack and interrogate research hierarchies that continue to remain prevalent.
Thank you Estelle for your way in this world.
Roger Mantie, in a gracious philosophical manner, reminded us that even within the call for session submissions attention to language and assumptions and those moments of “reproducing the very thing [we] wish to critique” is necessary. Indeed, if as Roger posits that “getting into the club means being liked by the club,” I’m okay with being in a club where everyone is concerned about the constant interrogation of the club.
Patrick Freer walked us through those ways we might consider the “negotiation of explicit and implicit standards of quality, measures of accountability, and relevance to music education’s diverse audiences.” He also reminded us that the “discussion of critique is situated within the culture, values, and traditions of music education scholarship.
And finally, Lee Higgins shared with us his own ethical dilemmas as editor of the International Community Music Journal. As he spoke of the “industrial knowledge machine” and weak thinking as an attitude that might help us “twist through liberation” we were all reminded of the contradictions and paradoxes that live with and in us.
To recap our business meeting: We elected Deborah Bradley and Roger Mantie as our next co-chairs. We discussed the website and technological possibilities – including on-line voting of our chairs. We also addressed the importance of thinking through the review process for submissions (in light of the presentations we heard) and spoke of the upcoming International Philosophy of Music Education Conference to be held in Helsinki in June.
And finally, but hardly finally at all, Patrick Jones called for the nomination of Estelle Jorgensen for the Senior Researcher Award – a call that was unanimously adopted! We are very excited about this prospect and will be moving forward on the needed paper work.
Thanks to Patrick Schmidt for his leadership these past two years. If you remember at our last meeting in Milwaukee we weren’t even sure if there was going to be a next meeting, so thanks very much for seeing us through this transition and sending us into this next iteration of MENC. We also have Patrick to thank for our website that links us to infinity and beyond! Thanks for securing and passing on the institutional flame.
Let me know your thoughts about our session or any other ideas you may have. It was lovely to have newcomers in the room and it’s always lovely to see those people we care so deeply about and only manage to see once every 2 years!
Hope to see many of you in Helsinki and check out that website when you get a chance!
http://www2.siba.fi/ispme_symposium/index.php?id=4&la=fi
Cathy
Chair Philosophy SRIG
COME TO THE PHILOSOPHY SRIG SESSION AT THE NAfME CONFERENCE IN ANAHEIM!!!
Review and Critique: Philosophical and Ethical Challenges for Music Education Scholarship
The Philosophy SRIG session will bring together a composite of voices in the music education field addressing ethical, conceptual and philosophical issues related to the development of critique, the challenges of review process, and the needs for professional and scholarly development in the 21st century.
Music Education scholarship currently reflects pressures such as increased academic and methodological rigor, greater publication requirements for university faculty, and multiplying venues for print and online dissemination. These have implications in terms of production output, quality and distribution of research and access; all elements that help defining what kind of research is fostered and therefore becomes representative of the field, both internally and externally.
At a time when the organizational structures in the music education profession are being re-thought, we consider of importance that parameters and paradigms upon which research – its quality, validity as well as its modes of production – be discussed in critical terms. Being that research that goes un-evaluated or reviewed is no research at all – for is not view or shared – the philosophy SRIG proposes a panel that will address the challenges of this process today.
The panel selected for the 1st MENC Biennial National Conference on Research in Music Education is formed of current and past editors of journals, as well as individuals that have served in various editorial boards in the field of Music education. Further, it brings individuals from varied institutions and varied experiences. Thus, the panel will consider the import of critique in the development of scholarly inquiry, as well as the ways in which current processes of professional, intellectual and practical evaluation are done. Departing from varied philosophical standpoints and arguing from different conceptual notions each of the five panelists will consider the ways in which peer-reviewing systems, editorial processes, critique and assessment of intellectual output, pedagogical support for young scholars, as well as parameters and paradigms for critical practice are addressed today, and how they may fare in relation to the vast educational and professional changes in schooling and society in the 21st century.
Panelists:
Estelle Jorgensen - Indiana University
Roger Mantie - Boston University
Patrick Freer - Georgia State University
Lee Higgins - Boston University
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CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
The Philosophy Special Research Interest Group is calling for papers to be presented in a session titled “Review and Critique in Music Education” at the 2010 Biennial Music Educators National Conference in Anaheim, CA, March 25-27.
The session will bring together a composite of voices in our field addressing ethical, conceptual and philosophical issues regarding the development of critique, the challenges of review process, and the needs for professional and scholarly development in the 21st century.
The philosophy SRIG invites individuals to consider the import of critique in the development of scholarly inquiry in the profession as well as the ways in which current processes of professional, intellectual and practical evaluation are done. Philosophical/conceptual considerations about peer-reviewing systems, editorial processes, critique and assessment of intellectual output, pedagogical support for young scholars, as well as parameters and paradigms for critical practice, are a few of the issues implied under the session’s theme.
Submissions should present a well-articulated summation of the proposed argument in 1500 words. Those interested should send proposals in Word (.doc or .docx) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format to Patrick Schmidt, PHILOSOPHY SRIG Chair at pschmidt@rider.edu with the subject line “PSRIG Submission” no later than October 1st, 2009. List the primary proposer’s contact information including office and home telephone numbers as well as e-mail address(es) in the message. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel and selected for participation.
Further information can be found at http://philosophysrig.wordpress.com or http://www.menc.org/v/higher_education_admin/special-research-interest-groups-srigs.
