Chapter 5 Paying Attention
A Bakhtin-Inspired Dialogue about Embodiment and Inclusion in the Musicking Classroom
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Abstract
This chapter grew out of a nine-month conversation between two teachers who are now teacher educators. Both remember times when, early in their careers, they had tried, and failed, to find ways to connect with their students’ concerns. Using the dialogic principles of Mikhail Bakhtin, alongside the existentialist writings of Michael Bonnett (on authenticity in teaching relationships) and Nel Noddings’ philosophy of care in education, the authors trace the links between one of those teacher’s early career exploration, over three years, of her own identity as a singer and songwriter – and the redirection of that experience, over time, into gaining a more thorough understanding of the part ‘paying attention’, ‘presence’ and ‘embodiment’ play in teaching inclusively.