Music concerts for young children is a field of experimentation for many artistic institutions that aim to lead young audiences to rich musical experiences. This research project involved a series of concerts designed for young children from six months to six years old. The concerts were offered by the Music Department of Ionian University in Corfu city, Greece. The overall design and organization of the project aimed to offer an alternative and informal recital environment, so that young children and their parents could express their natural reactions towards music. Different layers of behaviour and reactions were observed and analysed, such as interactions among children, children and parents, children and musicians, and children and music.
This study explores music education teaching practice in Greece, collecting data from three university departments: two music departments (M1 and M2) and one primary education department (P) during the academic year 2006-2007. The project was based on data from 84 students (N = 84). Fieldwork in students' teaching practice comprised a selection of: (1) daily teaching plans, (2) students' self-evaluation diaries for each of their teaching lessons and (3) note-keeping from the regular meetings between the academic instructor and the students during the teaching practice period. Data from each of the three university departments are first described separately; then a comparison among the three departments is made, which is based on the following three strands: (1) what problems students faced, (2) what kind of help they needed the most and (3) what they gained out of their teaching practice.
This work focuses on the application of experimental multimedia in the field of music education. The end-system produced is a multimedia service designed to support music teachers who wish to generate and implement teaching scenarios, during their singing teaching session, as this progresses and evolves dynamically. The system allows them to adjust on the fly their educational content, in order to cover their classroom needs that evolve continuously during practice. The end-system combines a fully searchable multimedia database complemented by an access process designed to serve constantly changing content requirements. Most importantly, the system is designed to provide meaningful teaching-learning scenarios with the appropriate content on demand, through the implementation of a task-specific system-as-a-service access method. This chapter provides a walk through the most important characteristics of the process from the content expert perspective. This information was actively employed by developers enabling the system parameterization to cover the functional requirements of the teaching-learning process.
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