Learning about the world: developing higher order thinking in music education
Innovative thinking is an innate human capacity geared towards adaptation and survival. Theories of education accordingly aim at developing teaching-learning strategies that promote creative, problem-solving reasoning referred to as higher order thinking. This essay briefly explains some of the assu...
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| description | Innovative thinking is an innate human capacity geared towards adaptation and survival. Theories of education accordingly aim at developing teaching-learning strategies that promote creative, problem-solving reasoning referred to as higher order thinking. This essay briefly explains some of the assumptions underlying this concept, and then suggests how they may be reconfigured in a strategy suitable for education in and through music. The strategy involves a basic process of analysis, evaluation and creativity related to actual social experience. Higher order thinking therefore aims to equip learners with the capacity to synthesise relationships in and beyond particular fields of study so that their thinking may expand into the concreteness of the world.
Keywords: social challenges, higher order thinking, education, music education, culture contact, Frère Jacques
Disciplines: Disciplines: education, music education, musicology, history, anthropology, folklore studies, philosophy of art |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6760feeb4be4584b5ed86ce77645c442022-12-22T02:42:59ZengAOSISThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa1817-44342415-20052012-07-0181e1e1810.4102/td.v8i1.654Learning about the world: developing higher order thinking in music educationJaco Kruger0Liesl van Merwe1School of Music, North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusSchool of Music, North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusInnovative thinking is an innate human capacity geared towards adaptation and survival. Theories of education accordingly aim at developing teaching-learning strategies that promote creative, problem-solving reasoning referred to as higher order thinking. This essay briefly explains some of the assumptions underlying this concept, and then suggests how they may be reconfigured in a strategy suitable for education in and through music. The strategy involves a basic process of analysis, evaluation and creativity related to actual social experience. Higher order thinking therefore aims to equip learners with the capacity to synthesise relationships in and beyond particular fields of study so that their thinking may expand into the concreteness of the world. Keywords: social challenges, higher order thinking, education, music education, culture contact, Frère Jacques Disciplines: Disciplines: education, music education, musicology, history, anthropology, folklore studies, philosophy of arthttp://www.td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/6social challengeshigher order thinkingeducationmusic educationculture contactFrère Jacques |
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