Internal Understanding of Music in Children's Education. Discussion and (Re)Interpretation of this Issue

Abstract

This paper includes an analysis of the term “audiation”, which, according to the Edwina E. Gordon’s theory, describes the method of imagining the phenomenon of internal understanding of music and the method of filling this picture with a particular content. it transpires that such conceptualisation of the term “audiation” in studies on musical education of children can be inspired by interdisciplinary reflections of such researchers as: D. Kahneman, A. Tversky, B. Reimer or H. Blumer. The reason to apply this new, interdisciplinary view on the field of describing “audiation” as the main conceptual category of Gordon’s Theory of Music Learning and supporting a dispute on the need and current problems in Polish educational studies on experiencing music by children were selected theoretical conclusions by E.A. Zwolińska