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Toward Ecological Music Education: Thinking from the Batesonian–Deleuzian Views

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In this chapter, the author presents a new paradigm of music education . Specifically, the author refers to the Batesonian–Deleuzian views to support a possible emergent ecological paradigm of music education . The author organizes the chapter into three parts. In the first part, the author reviews the human-centered paradigm and its problems. He introduces the term “ecological music education ” and clarifies it. In the second part, the author shares views of ecological music education from the perspectives of Batesonian–Deleuzian. In the third part, the author discusses how to conceptualize ecological music education as a creative paradigm of music education .

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Wakao, Y. (2019). Toward Ecological Music Education: Thinking from the Batesonian–Deleuzian Views. In: Tsubonou, Y., Tan, AG., Oie, M. (eds) Creativity in Music Education. Creativity in the Twenty First Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2749-0_6

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