A dialogical view on R. Murray Schafer’s theories and creative approaches in 21st century music education

This chapter discusses how Schafer's approaches to music education can be applied in today's technological era to develop a highly creative workforce. It is anchored in a Bakhtinian dialogism framework as well as in Vygotsky's socio-constructivist theory. The aim of this research is to use and update an existing and successful twentieth-century philosophy of music education in the digital age as a way to provide an innovative approach to creativity that may now reach a wider audience through digital communication. As a result, a dialogical model of creativity through time emerges, in which the past and the future are interlocked and revolve around the axis of the present, and in which there are neither first nor last words.