Developing Rhythmic Intelligence

Abstract

This article discusses what goes into the adoption of a rhythmological conception of education. It theorizes the notion of rhythmic intelligence as a mean to further improve our understanding of educational temporalities and the ways they are experienced. Accordingly, this contribution aims at: (1) laying the foundations of a rhythmological perspective in educational research by formulating the main assumptions that define it; (2) illustrating the relevance of a rhythmological approach and exploring how it may be conceived, considering the language mobilised, the categorisations made, and the forms of reasoning through which the relations between heterogeneous temporalities are made intelligible; (3) introducing and defining the notion of rhythmic intelligence, to qualify the capacity required to deal with the rhythmicity of educational processes; and (4) exploring six pathways (learning to discriminate, interpret, examine, argue, judge and challenge rhythmic phenomena) to envision the development of rhythmic intelligence.

Keywords

• education
• temporality
• rhythm
• rhythmanalysis
• rhythmic intelligence