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Fostering Meaningful and Creative Connections in Higher Education: Contributions from Music Education
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This paper focuses on contributing to the reflection on the importance
of providing opportunities to foster meaningful and creative connections in
higher education. In a context of growing plurality, heterogeneity and diversity
of backgrounds, languages, cultures, identities, roles, and purpose influences
the sociocultural relations and professional interactions that occur and are
formed within higher education communities of knowledge and learning,
which are explored from the perspective of music education. A narrative
approach on participant’s views about their participation in an elective music
program was developed inside the framework of informal education. Issues
that were discussed the most across the datasets by participants individual
accounts are expressed through themes that fall into three broad areas:
previous musical experiences, significant influences for music participation,
and perceptions of the participation in the music program. Results suggest that
the informal music program provided participants with a context for a safe
emotional, social, cultural, and musical experience, and thus heterogeneity and
diversity are seen as enriching factors. Some considerations are made on the
ways through which music can help to foster connections and sense
of humanity in higher education. This provides some insights into the
relevance of fostering musical participation as part of the cultural
responsibility of higher education institutions for participants.
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Connections Higher education Informal music practice Music education Music learning
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Citation
Sandrina M. (2021). Fostering Meaningful and Creative Connections in Higher Education: Contributions from Music Education. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 17 (26), 27. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2021.v17n26p27
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European Scientific Institute