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Sound constantly embeds the interaction order (Goffman 1983) and is forming acoustic communities (Schafer 1993). Sound intensely touches any person exposed to it. Sense making and understanding of our physical and social surrounding is habitually connected with sounds. But our sociological and pedagogical knowledge on the sonic environment and its significance for social practice is rather restricted and thin. Off course we do have huge amounts of research on communication, speech and music in the social sciences and the humanities. But this research is usually done in a focused perspective, which omits the acoustic environment as a "soundscape" (Schafer 1993) in analogy to a landscape in the visual realm.
In my new and ongoing research I try to analyze mundane sounds in social settings as emerging features of joint acts of interacting people. Something that Vannini et al. (2010) have defined as "sound acts" within acoustic communities. This conceptual framework is applied in particular to the pedagogical situation. Such situations can ideally be characterized by a bundle of features:
a) an unequal distribution of knowledge between the participants, where the teacher knows more than the pupils;
b) a will, need, social expectation or even a force to cooperate under the premise of a) for those involved;
c) an idea, concept, content or skill of the teacher to be transferred to the pupil;
d) an appropriate sound-environment to teach and/or learn;
e) and some signs perceivable by the teacher in order to evaluate effects of her or his teaching efforts toward the pupil.
The aim of the research is to explore and to understand the practical acoustic properties and features of pedagogical situations.
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References
Augoyard, Jean-Francois and Henry Torgue, ed. 2006. Sonic Experience: A Guide To Everyday Sounds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Blumer, Herbert. 1986. Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and Method. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. Goffman, Erving. 1983. “The Interaction Order.” American Sociological Review. 48:1-17. Schafer, Murray R. 1994. Soundscape. Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books.
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