Korean Journal of Research in Music Education

Article

Contextualism-Universalism controversy inherent to the Purposes of Multicultural Music Education : a Possibility for Multi-Musical Music Education

Author
Kyoung Hwa Kim,Duck-Joo Kwak
Information
pp. 1~28 / 2019 Vol.48 No.3
e-ISSN2713-3788
p-ISSN1229-4179
Received2019-05-31
Revised2019-07-25
Accepted2019-08-20
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.30775/KMES.48.3.01
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Abstract

Multicultural music education that emphasizes the characteristics of civic education has a set of specific social-philosophical issues that can be educationally important. These issues can be explained as the Contextualism-Universalism controversy, where it connects to the tension between education through music and education in music. Furthermore, the Contextualism-Universalism controversy requires the clarification for the practice and realization of the educational purposes of multicultural music education. In order to explore the Contextualism-Universalism controversy as social-philosophical issues inherent to the purpose of multicultural music education, the researchers briefly examine a theoretical approach to the development of multicultural education and the debates of Liberalism and Communitarianism. On the basis of these examinations, the researchers analyze and interpret the Contextualism-Universalism controversy inherent to the discourse on the educational purposes of multicultural music education, and propose a possible multi-musical music education which can resolve this controversy.

Keywords

multicultural music education multi-musical music education universalism contextualism self-understanding