Interdisciplinary Educational Curricula

Music is Language, Language is Music.

HUMAN SYNCRONY
The purpose of the Educational CyberPlayGround is all about improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding the universal laws of perception, underlying the rhythms of both speech and music; world culture and our national culture. We try to focus on Honoring the Unknown Culture Maker while bringing the arts to life on the Web, for all ages. This is why all the content on this site is here. We focus on Music is Language and Language is Music as the most natural way to teach someone to read in any language.

Synch or Swim

 

To begin . . .
Humans make music to communicate like many other animals who use language and sound for the same reason. We are pack animals. Evolutionary Science shows how our biology makes us Tune In, we need to be In Synch to swim and swarm with the school and the pack to survive. We like to be in with the crowd.

Our musical roots lie in our voice speech spectrum which predicts the chromatic scale. Tonal Language cultures demand attention to pitch and they develop perfect pitch as a result (see Human SILBO Whistle Language). Learn about the Evolutionary Science research that explains the Roots of Language also learn more about Biopohny and Soundscape . William Condon says: "Your body's locked precisely with your speech. The baby cries in the same language of their parents

Chant is the heartbeat of culture, designed to bring everyone together in harmonious synchronicity as any traveling pack animal culture needs to have for survival. It's the tribal drum, when you have to be tuned in to know what is going on. I am fascinated by unknown culture makers, and the evolutionary science and roots of music that are shared by many animals, not just the human variety. Which is how I created my structure.

Interdisciplinary - Music is Language, Language is Music

Mouth Music then Language Making "I Found My Mama", by Mattie O'Neil & Salty Holmes (Grand Ol'Opry Stars of the '50's) Salty Holmes' "talking" harmonica.
In an example of the conscious experience, you will hear sound, then recognize music, then language.
LISTEN:

Song stories were told helped to explain culture. They helped you to memorize information, and since print was invented we've forgotten our roots of why we did this. Speech and Song is an oral / aural tradition, useful when there are stories to tell that may be as long as 2,500 verses. The need to display ourselves, is the nucleus of all art.

In one of my favorite books:
"Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" Pirsig says. . .

"We build up whole cultural intellectual patterns based on past 'facts' which are extremely selective. When a new fact comes in that does not fit the pattern we don't throw out the pattern. We throw out the fact. A contradictory fact has to keep hammering and hammering and hammering, sometimes for centuries, before maybe one or two people see it. And then these one or two have to start hammering on others for a long time before they see it too . . .

SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING
BELIEVING IS SEEING."

CONTRADICTORY FACT: Understanding is best achieved when the holistic nature of reality is recognized so that all knowledge becomes part of a single, mutually supportive conceptual framework.

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
Combats Pedantic Scholarship and cultural decolonization.

Transdisciplinarity is the synthesis of apparently different disciplines, like using music to teach reading. I think we can agree that a basic primary goal of education is to make sure everyone can read.

Think 21 century literacy skills, quill to key convergence.
Web 2.0 tools allow for synronicity beyond the geography of the neighborhood playground to the Educational CyberPlayGround.
The social net tools ultimately allow our species to sync and swarm with a pack, a tribe, with like minded friends.
The take away is the American K - 20 system of education does not make use of and integrate the knowledge known because of pedantic scholarship.

George Mason University - The Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies is for students who seek master's degrees that integrate knowledge from several disciplines.

Survival demands acknowledging the fundamental truth of our need to Sync or Swim.

"FREE? that happens when you are improvising, being in the moment, but in the end you are really only free to pick the structure you want, and to study; because everyone is interdependent, and that is the fact of life. The more you study the structure you've picked to live within, using those boundaries to figure out how to solve something; the more depth of knowledge you will achieve.

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