The Enactive Perspective as a Possible Foundation for Music Education Practices
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v22.71085Keywords:
Music Education, Enactivism, Cognition, Embodied Music CognitionAbstract
This text aims to discuss the enactive perspective as a possible foundation for practices in music education, considering that such perspective allows an active view of music teaching and learning. Based on a conceptual definition and situating enactivism in different bibliographies, this text characterizes embodied music cognition, presents dialogues with literature, and reflects on the implications of an enactive perspective for music teaching and learning, emphasizing its relationship with the active character of all music making. The article also discusses the inseparability between musical and extra-musical content, including the importance of people’s experiences contextualized with their sociocultural worlds. Finally, the relationship between praxis and enactivism is presented, as well as the application of enactivism as a foundation for different practices in music education. The analysis of this text can help music educators to broaden and deepen foundations and reflections on teaching and learning in music education from an enactive perspective.