Prescriptive approach to instrumental music education

A critical thought

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https://doi.org/10.24215/18530494e045

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tacit knowledge, prescriptive approach, traditional model, music teaching, instrumental pedagogy

Abstract

Even though models for instrumental teaching have at least on paper been gradually moving towards a constructivist and ecological perspective; a prescriptive approach still remains current in music classrooms. In this approach, concepts, theories and procedures tend to be treated as universal norms or absolute truths. Taking as a reference the ideas of Michael Polanyi on tacit knowledge, in this article the implications of the prescriptive approach of the traditional model of music teaching are critically analyzed and discussed.

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Author Biography

Alfonso Aguirre Dergal, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas

Classical guitarist born in Mexico and based in Spain. Holds a PhD in Music (cum laude) from the University of Aveiro, with a thesis titled: Gesture and the classical guitar: Prolegomena towards new paradigms. He also holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester). He has been a full time tenured professor at the University of Science and Arts of Chiapas in Mexico (2008 to 2015), an institution with which he continues to collaborate as a guest professor in the Master of Music Program. He is regularly invited as a soloist, teacher and jury member at international guitar festivals, universities and centers of higher learning in many countries in Europe, America and Africa. He is currently a guitar teacher at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid.

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2022-12-14

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Aguirre Dergal, A. (2022). Prescriptive approach to instrumental music education: A critical thought. Epistemus. Journal of Studies in Music, Cognition & Culture, 10(2), 045. https://doi.org/10.24215/18530494e045

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