Music and call: formal education’s purpose in a time of many crises

FORUM - Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171
Volume 67 Number 3 (2025)

Music and call: formal education’s purpose in a time of many crises
Patrick Yarker pages 98‑107
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2025.67.3.11

Abstract

For John Dewey, education ensures society’s continuity through renewal. Yet our formal education system seems loathe to address tendencies which confront us with the possibility (some would say likelihood) of society’s absolute discontinuity through thermonuclear self-destruction, planetary depletion or the many perils attributable to global heating and climate breakdown. This article tries to think about the purposes of today’s formal education system, why it is so difficult to repurpose that system the better to meet the crises we face, and what might nevertheless contribute to such a repurposing.

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Patrick Yarker (2025) Music and call: formal education’s purpose in a time of many crises, FORUM, 67(3), 98-107 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2025.67.3.11

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