Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful. Plato (attributed, origin unknown) [i] Plato considered music as…
Category: Reflection
Being ‘curious and courageous’: Positioning teaching for meaningful learning
With the new academic year comes renewed thinking and reflection on my practice; how my ideas and actions are embraced by my philosophies and ideals, and how I might seek to challenge my current ‘ways’ in considering new contexts and the influence of others. Such reflection has long characterised my approach to teaching and learning;…
‘It takes a village…’
Omwana takulila jnu emoi – Bunyoro proverb Though you likely won’t be fluent in Nyoro, language of the Bunyoro people of Africa, you’d be familiar with the proverb above when translated… ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. This proverb proposes that an entire community of people – each offering something unique in terms…
The window and the mirror: Reflection on creative practice
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to you yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2 In this scene from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Cassius suggests to Brutus that he knows things…
Dr Cade Bonar 