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Journal article
Performing Ethical Response-ability in Music Education Research: Who Cares and What Matters?
Action, criticism, & theory for music education, Vol.24(4), pp.110-127
07/2025
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Abstract
What is it to “care” and be “caring” as ethical music education researchers? Practices and principles of care have been explored critically in the domains of critical psychology, political theory, more-than-human-worlds, aesthetics, and feminist research practice. We need to do much more than integrate research ethics into music education research, but rather perform transparent practices that embody care in the ethical relationship and intra-action with others. This is key to our feminist reading of Karen Barad’s ethical response-ability. We turn to the work of Karen Barad, for whom ethics are intimately intertwined with ontology and epistemology (being, doing and knowing). Every aspect of research, including ontology, epistemology, and ethics, informs how we question, rescind control, articulate and position ourselves as well as make decisions about what to do and not to do. This article addresses the intertwining of being, doing, and knowing in the world as it applies to the ethico-onto-epistemologies that articulate the intra-active phenomena and co-constituted relations through which—as ethical music education researchers—a feminist ethics of care or the ethics of response-ability, are produced. Every intra-action matters.
Details
- Title
- Performing Ethical Response-ability in Music Education Research: Who Cares and What Matters?
- Creators
- Pamela Burnard - University of CambridgeElizabeth Mackinlay - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Action, criticism, & theory for music education, Vol.24(4), pp.110-127
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
- Identifiers
- 991013307025602368
- Copyright
- © Pamela Burnard and Elizabeth Mackinlay.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article