IURI SOARES
Iuri Soares is a music educator from Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he is a PhD candidate at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Iuri has taught music for children for more than 20 years, formerly in regular schools, and since 2013, as a professor at Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. His research interests are in the intersection between sociology of education and music education, particularly in the school curriculum.
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Music Education and the Dispute for Status Between Subjects in the School: A Sociological Approach
This paper proposes analyzing disputes for status between subjects in the school curriculum,
focusing on music education, by using an approach drawn from the sociology of education. In
the neo-liberal hierarchy of school subjects, Music carries low-status. My argument is that in
school this attribution of value occurs through what Bernstein termed pedagogic discourse. We
argue that pedagogic discourse operates, firstly, at the level of the school as a whole and
secondly within specific curriculum genres. Thus, this is the field, in the Bourdieusian terms,
where the disputes take place, and teachers are the objective agents in this process.
focusing on music education, by using an approach drawn from the sociology of education. In
the neo-liberal hierarchy of school subjects, Music carries low-status. My argument is that in
school this attribution of value occurs through what Bernstein termed pedagogic discourse. We
argue that pedagogic discourse operates, firstly, at the level of the school as a whole and
secondly within specific curriculum genres. Thus, this is the field, in the Bourdieusian terms,
where the disputes take place, and teachers are the objective agents in this process.