The International Society for Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) is an international scholarly organization for the field of
music education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origin ...
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...
. Music education philosophy is a field of study that examines such fundamental questions as "why and how should music be taught and learned?," while ISPME is an international organization devoted specifically to this specialized subject.
[Jorgensen, Estelle R. (2017). "Roots and Development of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (1985–2015)." ''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education'' 39(1): 25-50. Available online at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536600617703724#. Accessed December 14, 2018.] ISPME members include professors of music, education, and philosophy at universities in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
External links
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*Philosophy of Music Education Review
See also
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Philosophy of education
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Musicology
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Sociomusicology
Sociomusicology (from Latin: ''socius'', "companion"; from Old French ''musique''; and the suffix ''-ology'', "the study of", from Old Greek λόγος, ''lógos'' : "discourse"), also called music sociology or the sociology of music, refers to bo ...
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed t ...
References
Music education organizations
International cultural organizations
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