Open AccessTeachers in Liminal Spaces: From Solitude to Solidarity
Author(s) -
Clare Sher Ling Eng
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
engaging students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-2871
DOI - 10.18061/es.v8i0.7723
Subject(s) - liminality , solidarity , diversity (politics) , sociology , solitude , gender studies , complement (music) , pedagogy , aesthetics , linguistics , political science , anthropology , art , literature , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , politics , law , gene , phenotype
Any consideration of how global musics are organized and experienced in non-Western ways must also grapple with liminalities that exist between "Western" and "non-Western" spaces. My essay focuses on the liminal condition of foreign-born teachers. Drawing on personal experience, I write to complement existing calls for greater diversity in music education and theory, and to allow America-born educators to better understand international peers. I also write to support internationals in meeting certain language-related teaching challenges.