Professional choir
Tabula Rasa will perform a series of concerts at three locations in western
Norway in mid-October, 2019. The program is entitled Peace (“Fred” in
Norwegian), and features the theme of sacred
music facing war memorials. The program is designed to stimulate reflection
on the consequences of war and whether it is enough to dream of peace.
The program features music by Orlando de Lassus, Arnold Schönberg, Arvo Pärt, Frank Havrøy, Jake Runestad, and the premiere performance of a new piece by Tord Kalvenes. This project is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council, the Norwegian Composers Association, and the Norwegian Composers Fund. Here is the schedule and other details (in Norwegian): 14. september Krigminnene på Fedje, minikonsert kl 15 Fedjekyrkja, konsert kl 17 15. september Nordsjøfartmuseet i Tælavåg, minikonsert kl 15 Sund kyrkje, konsert kl 18 22. september Herdla museum, minikonsert kl 15, 15.30 og 16. Herdla kyrkje, konsert kl 18 Musikalsk leder: Arild Rohde Sopran: Rikke Lina Sorell Matthiesen, Sigrun Jørdre Alt: Elise Thorgersen Varne, Zsuzsa Zseni Tenor: Tord Kalvenes, Arild Rohde Bass: Charles Lindberg, David Hebert Regi: Ingrid Askvik
UPDATE: This PhD course was offered entirely online in late May and June 2020. It was a great success, with very positive evaluations and strong student projects that will likely lead to publications. The course will be offered again two years later, in 2022. Please plan to join us!
In late May 2020, we will offer a new PhD course in Bergen entitled Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy. This intensive interdisciplinary
course is situated within our PhD program in Bildung and Pedagogical Practices (European
educational philosophy), but it is also open to doctoral students from other universities for ECTS (European) credits.
Below is
the course description and a link for additional information.
This course enables educational theories and
practices in contemporary Europe to be more deeply understood in relation to
non-Western educational philosophies and policies. The focus of the course is
on exploring intellectual traditions and sociocultural practices that shape
school education outside of Europe, in the continents of Asia, Africa, Oceania,
and the Americas. It offers a survey of non-European philosophical writings on
education, including such major historical theorists as Confucius, Ibn Khaldun,
al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Ghandi, Zera Yacob, Tagore, Fanon, Nishida, Said, and Freire, as well as
intercultural observations of notable contemporary educational and social
theorists: Michael Peters, Martha Nussbaum, Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid, Carl Mika, Amartya Sen, Seyla Benhabib, Timothy
Reagan, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Joel Spring, Nicholas Burbules, Carlos Alberto
Torres, Fred Dervin, Mark Halstead, and David Killick. The course will
especially emphasize discussion of East Asian schools, due to both the
distinctive philosophies and recent economic and educational achievements in
China and Japan. Students will also explore the implications of non-western
philosophical traditions for their particular school subject areas of
specialization (e.g. arts education, social studies, citizenship education,
physical education, etc.).
As discussions linked
below demonstrate, at many institutions there has been some debate surrounding
the movement to “decolonize the curriculum”, but in my view the most valid
argument for offering a course on these thinkers is that it enables us to better
understand intellectual heritage from many parts of the world, and to better
learn from each other. The course does not "replace" anything, but it certainly contributes to a more complete higher education, and stimulates us to rethink basic assumptions concerning the nature, value, and implementation of educational systems.
For over 15 years (since 2007), this website has offered musings on contemporary society and its music by David G. Hebert, PhD. He is a sociomusicologist specializing in global music education who has held academic positions with universities on five continents. Dr. Hebert is now a tenured full Professor with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. There he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group and manages the multinational government-funded Nordic Network for Music Education, which organizes annual intensive Master courses and exchange of teachers and students across eight countries. He is also an Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and an Honorary Professor in China with the Education University of Hong Kong.
Professor Hebert's research applies an international-comparative perspective to issues of pluralism, identity, and cultural relevance in music education, as well as processes by which new music traditions emerge and change - both sonically and socially - as they are adopted into institutions. Born in the 1970s, he is among the most widely-published and globally-active music scholars of his generation (h-index:20; i10-index:30), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).
Keynote Speaker - Across recent years, Professor Hebert has had keynote speeches in Poland, Germany, Uzbekistan, China, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Tanzania, and Thailand, and chaired two sessions at ISA-Japan.
