Wiebe Koopal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5398451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wiebe Koopal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wiebe |
| FAMILY NAME | Koopal |
| SIGNATURE | KOOPAL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8769-3193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zum-Buch-Sein”
Conquering illusions
In this article we want to rethink the educational significance of the novel from the perspective of a ‘metanovelistic’ reading of Don Quixote, often acclaimed as the ‘first modern novel’. Our point of departure is two-fold: on the one hand, there is the controversial contemporary phenomenon of de-reading, and all the educational discussions it entails; on the other hand, there is the existing tradition of literary education, which has already ex…
Educating with Style? Rethinking the Pedagogical Significance of (In)consistency Between Calvino and Deleuze
Calvinist’ Exercises in Educational Theory
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt … Conducting Beethoven’s Ninth as a Case of Public Music Education
This paper deals with the question of what makes public music education ‘public’, and how music-educational notions of ‘publicness’ can/should relate to politics. Our starting-point is a very concrete piece of music, from a particular tradition: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Since already this musical work carries with it a highly ambivalent political aura, we investigate in which different ways one could today still make a ‘case’—in the very liter…
Offline Memos for Online Teaching
This paper is the reflection of the proceedings of a live colloquium held by seven educational researchers in Madrid in August 2021. Point of departure of this colloquium was a shared concern for the ascendance of online teaching as the privileged mode of teaching in higher education. This concern, which had been influenced significantly by our various experiences during the Covid-19 crisis, was recently articulated in an outspokenly affirmative …
The pedagogical style of matters of study
To beat or not to beat? On music, violence, and education
In this article I venture the hypothesis that music confronts education with the possibility to think violence in ways that are both inherently educational and radically affirmative. Beginning with a reflection on a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which emphatically evokes the violence within the genesis of music, I then move in a different direction in the second section, which surveys how extant (music-) educational has thematized violence …
Caring for Literature that Matters ? Conceptualizing a Thing-centered Perspective on Literature Education with Rousseau, Deleuze, and Calvino
Growing donkey ears
This article problematizes the view that music education is primarily justified on account of its uniquely humanizing influence. Not only does this general humanist argument clearly fail to convince policy-makers to actually revalidate public music education, but moreover it often seems to rest on highly questionable premises. Without contesting the idea itself that music education can be a humanizing agency, we will try to show that such humaniz…
Derek Ford’s Inhuman Educations
Seeing through a glass, darkly? Towards an educational iconomy of the digital screen
This paper attempts to reassess the educational affordances of digital screens, at a time when their educational impact has become incontournable, but is also increasingly growing suspicion. To bypass the redundancies of overly critical theoretical approaches, the paper foregrounds the subjectifying potentialities of the screen’s elusive technological ‘plasticity’. After the introduction, in which some pedagogical misgivings about the digital scr…
Music Education as Faustian Bargain
This article explores the musical motifs in Thomas Mann’s 1947 novel Doktor Faustus and how they relate to the novel’s particular Bildung character. We claim that the novel allows for a challenging musico-pedagogical reading, which opens up new and highly imaginative perspectives on music and music education. Going beyond interpretations that mainly discuss the element of music in light of the novel’s metaphysical or sociocritical pretentions, we…
Éducation sentimentale? Rethinking emotional intelligence with Michel Henry
In this paper we explore the possibility of rethinking the concept of emotional intelligence within the context of education. By developing a pedagogical dialogue with Michel Henry’s phenomenology of incarnation, we try to move beyond existing models of emotional intelligence by shifting the emphasis from the intellectual significance of emotion to a more original incarnate affectivity within intelligence, understood as lived sense-making. We cla…
Seeing through a glass, darkly? Towards an educational iconomy of the digital screen
This paper attempts to reassess the educational affordances of digital screens, at a time when their educational impact has become incontournable, but is also increasingly growing suspicion. To bypass the redundancies of overly critical theoretical approaches, the paper foregrounds the subjectifying potentialities of the screen’s elusive technological ‘plasticity’. After the introduction, in which some pedagogical misgivings about the digital scr…
Éducation sentimentale? Rethinking emotional intelligence with Michel Henry
In this paper we explore the possibility of rethinking the concept of emotional intelligence within the context of education. By developing a pedagogical dialogue with Michel Henry’s phenomenology of incarnation, we try to move beyond existing models of emotional intelligence by shifting the emphasis from the intellectual significance of emotion to a more original incarnate affectivity within intelligence, understood as lived sense-making. We cla…
Music Education as Faustian Bargain
This article explores the musical motifs in Thomas Mann’s 1947 novel Doktor Faustus and how they relate to the novel’s particular Bildung character. We claim that the novel allows for a challenging musico-pedagogical reading, which opens up new and highly imaginative perspectives on music and music education. Going beyond interpretations that mainly discuss the element of music in light of the novel’s metaphysical or sociocritical pretentions, we…
Growing donkey ears
This article problematizes the view that music education is primarily justified on account of its uniquely humanizing influence. Not only does this general humanist argument clearly fail to convince policy-makers to actually revalidate public music education, but moreover it often seems to rest on highly questionable premises. Without contesting the idea itself that music education can be a humanizing agency, we will try to show that such humaniz…
Derek Ford’s Inhuman Educations
Seeing through a glass, darkly? Towards an educational iconomy of the digital screen
This paper attempts to reassess the educational affordances of digital screens, at a time when their educational impact has become incontournable, but is also increasingly growing suspicion. To bypass the redundancies of overly critical theoretical approaches, the paper foregrounds the subjectifying potentialities of the screen’s elusive technological ‘plasticity’. After the introduction, in which some pedagogical misgivings about the digital scr…
Offline Memos for Online Teaching
This paper is the reflection of the proceedings of a live colloquium held by seven educational researchers in Madrid in August 2021. Point of departure of this colloquium was a shared concern for the ascendance of online teaching as the privileged mode of teaching in higher education. This concern, which had been influenced significantly by our various experiences during the Covid-19 crisis, was recently articulated in an outspokenly affirmative …
The pedagogical style of matters of study
To beat or not to beat? On music, violence, and education
In this article I venture the hypothesis that music confronts education with the possibility to think violence in ways that are both inherently educational and radically affirmative. Beginning with a reflection on a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which emphatically evokes the violence within the genesis of music, I then move in a different direction in the second section, which surveys how extant (music-) educational has thematized violence …
Caring for Literature that Matters ? Conceptualizing a Thing-centered Perspective on Literature Education with Rousseau, Deleuze, and Calvino
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt … Conducting Beethoven’s Ninth as a Case of Public Music Education
This paper deals with the question of what makes public music education ‘public’, and how music-educational notions of ‘publicness’ can/should relate to politics. Our starting-point is a very concrete piece of music, from a particular tradition: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Since already this musical work carries with it a highly ambivalent political aura, we investigate in which different ways one could today still make a ‘case’—in the very liter…
Conquering illusions
In this article we want to rethink the educational significance of the novel from the perspective of a ‘metanovelistic’ reading of Don Quixote, often acclaimed as the ‘first modern novel’. Our point of departure is two-fold: on the one hand, there is the controversial contemporary phenomenon of de-reading, and all the educational discussions it entails; on the other hand, there is the existing tradition of literary education, which has already ex…
Educating with Style? Rethinking the Pedagogical Significance of (In)consistency Between Calvino and Deleuze
Calvinist’ Exercises in Educational Theory
Zum-Buch-Sein”
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