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A gift, an offering, the divine understandings given as words and music intermingle to bestow spi... more A gift, an offering, the divine understandings given as words and music intermingle to bestow spiritual insights of divine wisdom informed by agape, conveying archetypes through narrative. Divine resonances enable empathic connectivity by engaging archetypes interpretively within songful experiences as narratives emerge from the songful soundscape. Song compels the perception of emotionality through story, entailing a communion with the human condition, the eternal, and the divine. Love, joy, regret, hope, hopelessness, loss, these are but a few of the enduring themes that music may convey through a myriad of comedic, romantic, tragic, and satiric/ ironic renderings. Through poetry, words activate an understanding of the ego, the soul and the self as we connect with resonance to narrative character archetypes. Divinity is imbued in song. Through inquiry, the ethical merges with aesthetic practices, as song inextricably interwoven with being and becoming fosters a responsible subject...
The CMEA/Acme has launched a Research to Practice blog website to provide a forum for promoting d... more The CMEA/Acme has launched a Research to Practice blog website to provide a forum for promoting dialogue between teachers, students, practitioners and researchers in music education. In this article, we provide some background, instructions, and ideas for contributing to this new online participatory culture at http://cmea.ca/blog/ In recent years, there have been growing calls from the music education community for opportunities and forums that are capable of enabling researchers and practitioners to share information and ideas. In response to these calls we have launched a new CMEA/Acme Research to Practice blog website. We believe that this interactive online forum will provide a valuable resource for music teachers, researchers, students, and music practitioners to contribute to dialogue on a variety of research and practice issues from wide-ranging perspectives. The interactive nature of blogs encourages individuals and organizations to post comments, questions, information, announcements, and descriptions of events such as workshops and conferences, as well as up-to-date research findings, collaborative opportunities, and teacher tips and resources. The CMEA/Acme blog is also a way of connecting with music educators from across Canada and around the world. The term blog is short for weblog; it is an online space for dialogue and information sharing. Blogging is a form of networked communication where contributors participate in a process that Levy (2000) refers to as "collective intelligence". Collective intelligence is the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with like-minded individuals toward a common goal. In such a world, Levy argues, everyone knows something, nobody knows everything, and the group as a whole can tap into different areas of expertise by "debating evidence and scrutinizing all available information, and, perhaps most powerfully, by challenging one another's assumptions" (Jenkins, 2006, p. 226). Participatory Cultures and Online Dialogue The aim of the CMEA/Acme Research to Practice blog is to create a space for building a participatory culture for learning and thinking together on topics that matter in music education. Research has demonstrated that collaboration between researchers and practitioners increases the likelihood that research findings will be translated into practice and that topics of interest to practitioners will inform future research (Donovan, Bransford & Pellegrino, 1999). However, this is not to say that the aim of building a participatory culture is to establish consensus or a unified opinion on every topic. There is great potential and possibility in the spaces View publication stats View publication stats
A gift, an offering, the divine understandings given as words and music intermingle to bestow spi... more A gift, an offering, the divine understandings given as words and music intermingle to bestow spiritual insights of divine wisdom informed by agape, conveying archetypes through narrative. Divine resonances enable empathic connectivity by engaging archetypes interpretively within songful experiences as narratives emerge from the songful soundscape. Song compels the perception of emotionality through story, entailing a communion with the human condition, the eternal, and the divine. Love, joy, regret, hope, hopelessness, loss, these are but a few of the enduring themes that music may convey through a myriad of comedic, romantic, tragic, and satiric/ ironic renderings. Through poetry, words activate an understanding of the ego, the soul and the self as we connect with resonance to narrative character archetypes. Divinity is imbued in song. Through inquiry, the ethical merges with aesthetic practices, as song inextricably interwoven with being and becoming fosters a responsible subject...
The CMEA/Acme has launched a Research to Practice blog website to provide a forum for promoting d... more The CMEA/Acme has launched a Research to Practice blog website to provide a forum for promoting dialogue between teachers, students, practitioners and researchers in music education. In this article, we provide some background, instructions, and ideas for contributing to this new online participatory culture at http://cmea.ca/blog/ In recent years, there have been growing calls from the music education community for opportunities and forums that are capable of enabling researchers and practitioners to share information and ideas. In response to these calls we have launched a new CMEA/Acme Research to Practice blog website. We believe that this interactive online forum will provide a valuable resource for music teachers, researchers, students, and music practitioners to contribute to dialogue on a variety of research and practice issues from wide-ranging perspectives. The interactive nature of blogs encourages individuals and organizations to post comments, questions, information, announcements, and descriptions of events such as workshops and conferences, as well as up-to-date research findings, collaborative opportunities, and teacher tips and resources. The CMEA/Acme blog is also a way of connecting with music educators from across Canada and around the world. The term blog is short for weblog; it is an online space for dialogue and information sharing. Blogging is a form of networked communication where contributors participate in a process that Levy (2000) refers to as "collective intelligence". Collective intelligence is the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with like-minded individuals toward a common goal. In such a world, Levy argues, everyone knows something, nobody knows everything, and the group as a whole can tap into different areas of expertise by "debating evidence and scrutinizing all available information, and, perhaps most powerfully, by challenging one another's assumptions" (Jenkins, 2006, p. 226). Participatory Cultures and Online Dialogue The aim of the CMEA/Acme Research to Practice blog is to create a space for building a participatory culture for learning and thinking together on topics that matter in music education. Research has demonstrated that collaboration between researchers and practitioners increases the likelihood that research findings will be translated into practice and that topics of interest to practitioners will inform future research (Donovan, Bransford & Pellegrino, 1999). However, this is not to say that the aim of building a participatory culture is to establish consensus or a unified opinion on every topic. There is great potential and possibility in the spaces View publication stats View publication stats