ABSTRACT

Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations.

Regardless of their origin or interpretation, sounds are theoretically and practically foundational to educational experiences. As the means through which knowledges are passed from one person to another, sounds outline the fluid, porous boundaries of educational ecologies. This book draws out and expands upon the already-present sonic metaphors that exist at the center of philosophical and historical foundations of educational studies. Contributions demonstrate the ethical dimensions of this line of inquiry, emphasizing the need for education to offer both a right to speak and to be heard in order to take on a truly democratic character. By highlighting emerging attention to sound scholarship in education, contributors attend to and otherwise explore sound possibilities for educational theory, policy, and practice.

This book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students; libraries, researchers and academics in the field of educational foundations, philosophy of education, education politics and sociology of education.

chapter |12 pages

Editors’ Introduction

Resounding Education: Sonic Instigations, Reverberating Foundations

chapter 1|18 pages

In 8100 Again

The Sounds of Students Breaking

chapter 2|17 pages

Earwitnessing (In)Equity

Tracing the Intra-Active Encounters of ‘Being-in-Resonance-With’ Sound and the Social Contexts of Education

chapter 3|22 pages

(Re)Mediating (Un)Heard Resonances

Tracing the Rhythms of Aurality in a Residential College Community

chapter 4|17 pages

Gottschalk’s Engagement With the Ungovernable

Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the Bamboula Rhythm

chapter 5|22 pages

Polyphonic Teaching

The Ability to Facilitate Multiple Voices as a Crucial Teaching Skill

chapter 6|20 pages

Tuning Out of This World

Silence and Mantra at an Urban Ashram in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity

chapter 7|19 pages

Vibrations in Place

Sound and Language in Early Childhood Literacy Practices

chapter 8|21 pages

Sound Education

Black Joy, Eugenics, and the Afrosurreal at School