Welcome to the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI)
The Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI) draws faculty and students together, in graduate programs, courses, lectures, workshops and other interactive venues, to address Educational issues or topics of common concern from inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.
CCFI seeks to drive intellectual and social innovation through the nurturance of transdisciplinary scholarship in Education. CCFI thus serves as both an active academic unit that provides graduate programs and courses, and in so doing, contributes to the development of knowledge advances across multiple fields of inquiry in Education, as well as an incubator space for the development of cross-faculty initiatives and collaborative inquiry.
What's Hot
NOV
23
"Unbearable Exuberance: Queer-Feminist-Left Responses to Gaza" with Professor Jasbir Puar. More info
NOV
25
The Roundtable"Academia: Is this Not the Real World? — a dialogic inquiry into academia/real world distinction" with Kieran Egan (IERG, SFU), Kedrick James (LLED, UBC), Jocelyne Robinson (CCFI UBC) & al. is scheduled on Wednesday, November 25 , at 1:00 pm in Scarfe building, Room 304A.
DEC
3
Join CCFI graduate students for a symposium exploring indigenous knowledge systems on December 3, 2009, 4:30 - 7:30pm at First Nations Long House. More info
Educational Insights new issue Performing Repair is available online. For more information visit the Educational Insights website.
Western art music and Disability:
A Contrapuntal Approach
Stefan Honisch, CCFI PhD student
My doctoral research project brings together musicians with disabilities from both the disability-arts and Western art music communities in order to explore how the emerging body of work on Music and Disability by Western art music scholars and musicians (Lubet, 2004; Straus 2006, 2008; Honisch, 2009) might complicate the binary distinction between disability-art and mainstream art advocated by Disability Studies scholars and disability artists (Barnes and Mercer, 2003; Sutherland, 2006).
I will invite participants to submit both music-based, and verbal/written responses, I challenge the notion that “music, even at its most representative, only speaks to itself” (Symes, 2006, 309). My approach is contrapuntal, binding together multiple voices (Symes, 2006) without striving for “the overcoming of tension through forced reconciliation” (Said, 2001, 100). I will create a multi-media contrapuntal performance piece based on participant responses, and this “narrative collage” (Denzin, 2003, 87) will be recorded on DVD. More information .....
Recently, I was interviewed on CBC Radio’s “The Early Edition” with Rick Cluff. The interview focused on my participation in the 2nd International Piano Festival by People with Disabilities, as well as on my doctoral research interests.
Click here to hear the interview.
Photo by Aaron Tam
