A famous paradox is formulated in Plato’s Menon: Man has no incentive to investigate what he knows or what he does not know. He will not seek what he knows because he knows it, so he does not need research, and he will not look for what he does not know because he does not know what to look for. Let us consider the problem of knowledge in the light of the “mechanisms” that drive the process, i.e. the transmission (= participation in a cognitive experience), teaching (= transfer of knowledge and skills) and education (= systematic and purposeful formation), expanding the question: How do we train trainers? And especially when sociological factors form unequal codes and access paths for those who share the same educational milieu?  Aesthetic education, which current curricula either ignore or underestimate, may offer answers with multiple thematic and methodological applications.

Maria Zoubouli is Associate Professor at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina. She was first appointed at the Traditional Music Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus (2003). Her research focuses on the History and Theory of Art and the History of Aesthetic Theories. She studied in France: Doctorat, DEA & Diplôme in Histoire et Civilisations (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and Maîtrise of History of Art and Archeology (Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne). She has been granted with an Eugen Ionescu scholarship for her post-doctoral research at New Europe College, Bucharest. She worked as an editor of scientific publications at the Centre d’Études Byzantines, Balkaniques et Néohelléniques (EHESS), as member of archaeological excavations (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and École Française d’Athènes), as coordinator of a postgraduate research program (Foundation of the Hellenic World – University of Ioannina), and as library staff (Bibliothèque Publique d’Information – Centre National d’ Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou and Bibliothèque Byzantine – Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales / Collège de France). She also worked as an invited researcher at the Center Léon Robin (CNRS, Paris). In 1998 she participated in the composition of the proposal (EPEAEK I) for the foundation of the Department of Traditional Music at the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, where she was elected as a faculty member in 2003. She is a collaborating member of Laboratoire Orient & Méditerrannée (UMR 8167: Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris IV, Paris 1, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Collège de France). She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Association Pierre Belon (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris).