Multimodality and the Multiliteracies Pedagogy: "Design" and "Recruitment" in South African Children's Musical Games

Autor/in	Harrop-Allin, Susan
Titel	Multimodality and the Multiliteracies Pedagogy: "Design" and "Recruitment" in South African Children's Musical Games
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Music Education, 65 (2017) 1, S.25-51 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4294
DOI	10.1177/0022429417694874
Schlagwörter	Multiple Literacies; Music; Games; Teaching Methods; Play; Ethnography; Music Education; Urban Areas; Foreign Countries; Semiotics; African Languages; Art Education; Educationally Disadvantaged; Poverty; Children; South Africa (Johannesburg) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ethnografie; Musikerziehung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Ausland; Semiotik; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Armut; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	Drawing on a study of children's musical games in urban South Africa, this article employs two theoretical frames: that of multimodality and the multiliteracies pedagogy. These are applied to a contextual analysis of the forms of musicality that musical games embody and to ways of incorporating children's play into pedagogy. Based on ethnographic research in primary schools in Soweto, I first examine representative examples of musical games in order to demonstrate children's musicianship in relation to the concept of multimodality. Analysis reveals the games' sophistication in terms of children's deployment of multiple modes and the inventiveness their methods imply. Furthermore, a multimodal theoretical frame and analytical approach enables an understanding of musicality as the capacity to "design." Second, children's multimodal musicality prompts questions about how such musicality may become a resource in formal learning. I propose that applying the multiliteracies pedagogy to music education offers a methodological solution for "recruiting" musical games so that the capacities children demonstrate in their games may be developed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01