A reciprocal music pedagogy of rhythmic care: The decolonial voices of Paulo Freire and Yusef Waghid
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the link between the voices of Paulo Freire and Yusef Waghid and their potentialities for music education, focusing on the overarching themes of (a) criticality and scepticism in collaboratively reviewing learned oppressions, (b) the teacher-student/student-teacher as a hybrid category, (c) the importance of dissonance and presence in a caring dialogical education, (d) the potentials of rhythmic care in music education, and (e) ubuntu care: the self and the other. This text concludes by briefly proposing the concept of ‘a reciprocal music pedagogy of rhythmic care’, and its possible application to Nordic music education contexts, as a way to incorporate the inspiration drawn by the philosophies of these two scholars on a practical level.
Author: Sergio Garcia Cuesta
Institutions: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Aalborg University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,142
OpenAlex ID: W4413524776