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Choral conducting education: The lifelong entanglement of competence, identity and meaning
2020
Choral singing is one of the most widespread musical activities, and choral conductors work in a variety of social settings that involve every imaginable type of choir and musical genre. The conductor role draws on a number of skills and competencies that are partly acquired through education but, equally importantly, through experience. Choral conductors shape their practice in highly individual fashions as amalgamations of background, formal education, career development and working situation. The present qualitative study seeks to uncover how choral conductor practices arise and unfold, by using Etienne Wenger’s theory of communities of practice and situated learning as the key analytic…
Social inclusion as a therapeutic and educational factor in a music therapy setting
2016
Inclusive approaches for children with special needs are applied in both the fields of music therapy and (music) education. In practice, inclusive music therapy groups consist only of children with special needs, whereas an inclusive kindergarten group for example may consist of typical and non-typical children, yet not in an actual therapy setting. Both practices hold explicit benefits for typical and non-typical children, however mutually exclusive of one another. The aim of the study is to explore the effects of social inclusion in a group consisting of typically and non-typically developing children within a music therapy setting. The focus lays on the therapeutic benefits for the speci…
Music and speech prosody: a common rhythm
2013
Disorders of music and speech perception, known as amusia and aphasia, have traditionally been regarded as dissociated deficits based on studies of brain damaged patients. This has been taken as evidence that music and speech are perceived by largely separate and independent networks in the brain. However, recent studies of congenital amusia have broadened this view by showing that the deficit is associated with problems in perceiving speech prosody, especially intonation and emotional prosody. In the present study the association between the perception of music and speech prosody was investigated with healthy Finnish adults (n = 61) using an on-line music perception test including the Scal…
How students learn to teach? A case study of instrumental lessons given by Latvian undergraduate performer students without prior teacher training
2012
The purpose of this study was to describe and discuss the way students of the Latvian Academy of Music teach before having entered a teacher training programme. Five hours of students’ teaching work was video-taped, analysed and discussed with them between the spring of 2010 and the winter of 2011. The descriptive and analytic results of this study were also contrasted with their own views on pedagogy, which were drawn from a previous study that had been conducted with the same students and their peers in the fall of 2009. The role of the teaching habits and skills that students have acquired from their own teaching, temperament or background is discussed, as well as their needs starting te…
Holistic Architecture for Music Education: A research design for carrying out empiric and interdisciplinary studies in didactics of music
2019
Los temas estéticos de la música son relevantes en la investigación de la educación musical, pero otros elementos vinculados a las ciencias sociales también desempeñan un papel central, como las relaciones entre compañeros de clase, las interacciones diádicas entre estudiantes y profesores, el impacto del capital cultural en situaciones de clase, etc. En este sentido, el diseño de una investigación para la educación musical debe proponer una interacción iterativa entre los fundamentos teóricos y las situaciones complejas del mundo real, para que los educadores e investigadores puedan emprender actividades educativas fundamentadas teóricamente, contrastadas empíricamente y reproducibles. En …
Music Education, Creativity and Technology: An Exploratory Study on Teaching Strategies and Creative Activities With Ex Novo Software
2022
Resumen Objetivo. Analizar las estrategias y las actividades creativas que el profesorado de música realiza en sus aulas mediante un software construido por las personas investigadoras que facilita la creación sonora colaborativa en contextos docentes. Método. El trabajo se ha realizado mediante un enfoque exploratorio-descriptivo a través de una experiencia didáctica desarrollada durante 12 semanas en aula y después se encuestó a 27 docentes de educación primaria y secundaria. La encuesta recogió información sobre actividades de aula realizadas, procesos creativos llevados a cabo, estrategias docentes adoptadas, recursos de aula y uso del software en las actividades. Resultados. Los result…
EMOlab (Laboratorio de Educación Musical por Ordenador)
2010
EMOLab es un Laboratorio de Educación Musical por ordenador, donde se integrarán de forma modular diferentes programas para la educación musical en principiantes, que sirvan a un doble objetivo: ayudar a la formación musical de los futuros graduados de magisterio y proporcionar unos medios de acercamiento didáctico y de autoaprendizaje a la educación musical de los niños de primaria. Sin la pretensión de cubrir absolutamente el currículo de educación musical, los programas abarcan, al menos, los elementos esenciales de la música, apareciendo en consecuencia: -Programas de apoyo rítmico -Programas de apoyo melódico Estos programas de ámbito rítmico y melódico obedecen a un ordenamiento siste…
Through the Eyes of an Entangled Teacher: When Classical Musical Instrument Performance Tuition in Higher Education is Subject to Quality Assurance
2020
What happens when a classical music instrument performance course at a Norwegian state university study programme is assessed for quality following a standardized procedure? The article explores frictions and negotiations between managerial quality assurance and classical music performance education in a contextual sense, focusing particularly on the teacher-student relation. I employ my own experience as an instrument performance teacher in a Western Classical Music performance study programme while drawing on state acts, regulations, managerial processes, educational politics, funding, and classical music performance education’s habitus and heritage. I begin by addressing the institution …
Dilemmaer i skandinavisk korlederutdanning
2021
Within higher education, programmes in choral conducting are offered of varying kinds and at different levels, from dedicated programmes to single courses that are embedded in other music programmes. The choral practice field is varied; choral leadership is partly a generic music competence and partly a profession. The variety and social reach of the choral movement suggest that the educational offering in choral conducting should be manifold in type and quantity in order to supply the practice field with qualified conductors. n this chapter we take a renewed look at material from three previous studies: (1) a mapping of Scandinavian choral leader education, based on document analysis and i…
Sense-Making, Meaningfulness, and Instrumental Music Education
2020
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the nature of "meaning" and "meaningfulness" in the context of instrumental music education. By doing so, I propose to expand the ways in which instrumental music educators conceive their mission and the ways in which we may instill meaning in people's lives. Traditionally, pursuits of philosophical deliberation have claimed that meaningfulness comes from either personal happiness (e.g., Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) or an impersonal sense of duty (e.g., St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Immanuel Kant). However, philosopher Wolf (2010) criticizes these positions in favor of a broader perspective, one that arises from understanding that …