RESTORING THE PRISTINE HUMANNING POTENCY OF MUSIC EDUCATION ANCHORED ON STIMULATING ASSESSMENT PRACTICE

Abstract

The human world, globally, is critically exhibiting dissolute fellow humanity conscience in escalating evidences of immoral creative orientations and harmful outputs. The glamorous inventions damage human health, pollute the environment, and out-rightly destroy life. Also, stone-hearted governance and economic actions devoid of basic humanity consciousness, have become overwhelming. Elite to commoner pronouncements of morality diatribes in religious, political, economic and social sites have become flippant. Performatively implanting as well as policing fellow humanity conscience from modernist childhood upbringing to adult societal milieu remains the abiding humanning integrity of heritage musical arts, which remains a feasible mind-management legacy needed in modern classroom education and polity policing sites. Old cultures rationalized educational transmission of critical ideologies and mores as commonplace societal living routines. The practical experiencing strategy interactively instilled instinctual respect for the life and wellbeing of fellow humans within and beyond community enclaves. The human blood was sacred, a tangible metaphysical oath symbol in bonding; the musical arts was sacred, an intangible phenomenon for interactively overseeing spiritual disposition and mind wellness, an effectual oath endorser. Musical practice and sanction alerted consciousness for societal mores and amicable relationships. So, purposeful music education practices overseen by rousing assessment were progressive in all spheres of life. Priming of virtuous humanity disposition was an ideational objective of mass performative music education and assessment practices, which engenders humane cogitations, productions, relationships and actions. Mass mind wellness was assiduously cherished and guarded, because it accorded sober life disposition in pre-modern knowledge inventions and societal practices.