The present article aims to analyze two approaches, Aesthetic and Pragmatistic, among the approaches to the philosophical field of music education. Pragmatists show how music is associated with the scientific paradigm and socio-cultural actions;on the other hand, music education seeks to increase the ability of perception, experience and evaluation of the aesthetic qualities.This will not be possible without using the aesthetic approach.The question of the research is whether the aesthetic perception of music and its perception as a social action are more compatible with each other, or are the two views completely opposite and contradictory?The method of data acquisition is based on library research and using texts of two approaches since the mid-1950s.The research method is qualitative and based on descriptive-analytical method;for this purpose,the theories of two approaches were taken into consideration in order to achieve the reconstruction of the aesthetic approach by considering the negative and positive attitude of each of them and passing the Bipolarity. In this reconstruction, the paper is relied on the tools, method and philosophical content of music education, which was presented on the basis of the theories of the two mentioned approaches.The results of the research showed that if we consider the aesthetic experience in music more as an act of creating meaning than internal reflections, music is no longer an independent object with an inherent meaning, and there will be no need to abandon the aesthetic approach the way that is done in pragmatism. The aesthetic experience in reconstructing the aesthetic approach refers to the way someone interacts with the aesthetic object, which requires cultural education. Modern education is based on the fact that every child should have the opportunity to expand their abilities to observe, experience, evaluate and create the Beauty. This can be achieved by planning music education using both approaches.
Berangi S, Moradkhani A, Ghaedy Y. Reconstructing The “Aesthetic approach” in The Philosophy of Music Education. کیمیای هنر 2024; 13 (50) :1-17 URL: http://kimiahonar.ir/article-1-1860-en.html