Music SIG - Tuesday 14 May, 12-45pm, room 944

Music Education Special Interest Group

 

Research Seminar Announcement

 

Educating non-specialist music teachers: a study of content and discourses in teacher education

 

Dr Jon Helge Sætre, Associate Professor in Music Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo University College, Norway

 

Date: Tuesday 14^th May 2013

 

Time: 12.45 – 1.45

 

Room: 944

 

Further details from Lucy Green, l.green2@ioe.ac.uk

 

All are welcome

 

The aim of the research reported in this presentation is to understand how general teacher education (GTE) music course work is thought to prepare student teachers to teach music in compulsory schooling in Norway.  Since this presumably is done in different ways, I also aim to describe how music is contextualised in GTE and how it is regulated by forces from outside.  The project focuses on the dominant teacher education model in Norway, the four-year, integrated bachelor programmes educating generalist teachers.  Most teachers in the compulsory Norwegian Grunnskole (for ages 6 to 16) come from these programmes.

Theoretically, GTE is seen as a social and discursive field, in which both agents and structures play vital parts (Bourdieu, 1984, 1990; Bernstein, 2000).  A second theoretical perspective is the distinction between two main bodies of educational content in teacher education: a) content focusing on the subject matter in itself, and b) content focusing on how to make the subject matter meaningful and understandable to others (Shulman, 1986, 1987; Klafki, 1956/2000; Alexander, 2001).

The main research methods are a survey sent to music teacher educators, and a series of qualitative interviews, both asking about the content of the music classes.  The presentation will present and discuss findings from the first analyses of the data.

 

Jon Helge Sætre is Associate Professor in Music Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo University College.  He is currently holding a position as research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music.  In 2008 Sætre completed a professional doctorate programme at the Centre of Educational Research and Development, Oslo University College.  His teaching experience includes music in primary and secondary school and music teacher education, and he is also a performing pianist with several recordings of contemporary chamber music.  Sætre is co-editor of the book General music education - perspectives on practice (2010), co-author of Handbook on assessment in music in secondary school (2009, Oslo Municipality, Department of Education), and author of research articles on topics like composing in general music and assessment in music.

 

Fwd: FW: HEA seminar day, York - Monday 13 May

CREATIVE TEACHING FOR CREATIVE LEARNING IN HIGHER ACADEMIC MUSIC EDUCATION

Monday 13 May 2013, 10am to 4pm
Music Department, University of York (The Rymer Auditorium)

Music colleagues are invited to this seminar which is organised and hosted by music colleagues at the University of York and which is funded by The Higher Education Academy as part of its discipline workshop and seminar series.

SEMINAR OUTLINE
Creativity and creative skills are recognised as key attributes for music students. This event will bring together higher music education colleagues to learn about, share and discuss their experiences of teaching creatively to facilitate creative learning, focusing on the processes and techniques of creative teaching, particularly those connected to academic, rather than practical learning.

The event will:
- explore and explain how lecturers conceptualise creativity;
- demonstrate how music lecturers construct their academic teaching to develop creative skills in students;
- provide significant insights into our understanding of the intersection of creative teaching and creative learning.

The seminar will explore creative teaching in higher music learning focusing on academic (rather than practical) areas, although there will inevitably be some overlap as practical work and composition will be discussed within the parameters of academic teaching.

The event will feature presentations from Keynote speaker: Dr Pamela Burnard (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge); Invited speakers working in higher music education: Dr Peter Argondizza & Ruth Slater (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Tim Palmer & Abigail Longden (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), Dr Ambrose Field (University of York), Dr Mark Hutchinson (University of York), and a reflective student feedback session.

BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW OPEN: via the link below:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/Disciplines_AH/GEN286_York

If you have any questions please contact: liz.haddon@york.ac.uk

Fwd: ISMIR 2013 - CfP

ISMIR 2013 Call for Participation

14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013
4th - 8th of November 2013
Curitiba, Brazil (organized by PUCPR)

The annual Conference of the International Society for Music
Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on
processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data.The
revolution in music distribution and storage brought about by digital
technology has fueled tremendous research activities and interests in
academia as well as in industry. The ISMIR Conference reflects this
rapid development by providing a meeting place for the discussion of
MIR-related research, developments, methods, tools and experimental
results. Its main goal is to foster multidisciplinary exchange by
bringing together researchers and developers, educators and
librarians, as well as students and professional users.

ISMIR 2013 will feature:
* introductory and in-depth tutorials
* oral and poster presentations of research papers
* invited talks reflecting the true interdisciplinary nature
of MIR research
* a late-break/demo session
* a music programme.


-----PAPERS-----
ISMIR 2013 welcomes paper submissions for oral or poster presentation
in the (non-exclusive) areas of:

* content-based querying and retrieval
* database systems, indexing and query
* fingerprinting and digital rights management
* music transcription and annotation
* music signal processing
* sound source separation in music signals
* score following, audio alignment and music synchronization
* optical music recognition
* melody and motives
* rhythm, beat, tempo and form
* harmony, chords and tonality
* timbre, instrumentation and voice
* performance analysis
* modification and transformation of music data
* computational musicology
* music perception and cognition
* emotion and aesthetics
* applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
* automatic classification
* genre, style and mood analysis
* similarity metrics
* music summarization
* user interfaces and user models
* music recommendation and playlist generation
* text and web mining
* knowledge representation, social tags and metadata
* libraries, archives and digital collections
* evaluation and annotation issues
* methodological and philosophical issues
* social, legal, ethical and business issues
* applications to traditional/folk/ethnic music

To ensure a high quality of the contributions, all papers will go
through a double-blind selection process with at least three reviewers
per submission. Paper submissions must be no more than 6 pages long
when formatted with the conference template, and in PDF. Accepted
papers will be designated by the Program Committee to be presented
either as posters or as lectures. All accepted papers have the same
status, assignment as poster or lecture is not indicative of the
relevance or potential impact but on the type of content and way to
better reach the intended audience.

More details on http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013/submissions.html


-----TUTORIALS-----
The first day of ISMIR 2013 will consist of parallel sessions of
tutorials, each lasting three hours and concentrating on a single
topic. The tutorials are intended to provide a stimulating coverage of
that topic appealing to a general audience.

More details on http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013/submissions.html


-----LATE-BREAK/DEMOS-----
As in previous years, ISMIR 2013 will also include a special track for
demos and late-breaking news, with a later deadline than the main
paper/poster track. Demos consist of live, hands-on presentations of
working software which incorporate MIR algorithms or are relevant to
MIR research. Late-breaking news is quite the opposite: unpolished,
not-quite-understood-yet puzzles and findings that may barely hold
together, but are guaranteed to foster debate and discussion. Both are
things better interacted with than lectured about. While recent years
have seen a majority of submissions in the demo category, we will
endeavor to reach a better balance of both types of submissions this
year. In particular, we envision to differentiate the presentation
format for demos and late-breaking news - the former, in the
walk-around exhibition style that has been successful at previous
ISMIRs; the latter, in a more participative, un-conference style.
Details will be posted at a later date.

Both types of submissions will consist of extended abstracts of 1-2
pages, which will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner by members
of the programme committee like the submissions for the main paper
track. In the case of demo submissions, abstracts should describe what
the typical user scenario will be as well as the technical
requirements for the presentation. In the case of late-breaking news,
abstracts should make the case of why the result is inspirational and
topical for the MIR community.

More details on http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013/submissions.html


-----COMMITTEE-----
Conference Chairs
Alessandro L. Koerich (PUCPR – Brazil)
George Tzanetakis (U Victoria – Canada)

Program Chairs
Alceu S. Britto Jr. (PUCPR – Brazil)
Fabien Gouyon (INESC TEC– Portugal)
Simon Dixon (QMUL – UK)

Music Chair
Jônatas Manzolli (UNICAMP – Brazil)

Financial and Local Arrangments Chair
Luiz S. Oliveira (UFPR – Brazil)

Tutorial Chair
Carlos N. Silla Jr. (UTFPR – Brazil)


-----CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS-----
Printed proceedings will be provided, at an extra (reasonable) cost,
to participants who specifically ask for them. (Note the deadline for
printed proceedings request.)


-----IMPORTANT DATES-----
Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 8 April 2013
Tutorial Notification: 10 May 2013
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 May 2013
Notification of Acceptance for Papers: 5 July 2013
Early registration starts: 1 July 2013
Deadline for camera-ready papers: 25 July 2013
Author registration deadline: 13 September 2013
Printed proceedings request deadline: 20 September 2013
Participant registration deadline: 19 August 2013
Conference Dates: 4-8 November 2013

-----VENUE-----
Curitiba is the largest and one of the most important cities of
Southern Brazil, being a cultural, political and economic center. Its
population is approximately 1,8 million and its metropolitan area
comprises 26 municipalities with a total population of over 3,2
million. The city is on a plateau 932 m (3107 ft) above the sea level.
People from Curitiba are known as Curitibanos.

One theory about the name "Curitiba" comes from the Tupi words kurí
tyba, "much pine," due to the large number of Brazilian Pine Trees?
(Araucaria angustifolia), in the region prior to its foundation.
Today, Curitiba is considered one of the best examples of urban
planning world-wide.

The conference will take place in the Bourbon Curitiba Convention
Hotel. The hotel is located in the downtown area with easy access to
major sights and it is just 22km from the Afonso Pena airport. It is
the most traditional hotel in Curitiba. It has been awarded 14
consecutive times as the Top of Mind and has at its restaurant the
Best Feijoada of Curitiba according to some national magazines such as
Veja, and Gula.


-----STAY UP-TO-DATE-----
http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013/

Music education panel Re: IOE Cultural Week 2013

Call for contributors to International Education and Culture week
(22-26 April) on the topic of Musical Practices and Policies

The IOE SU hosts IEC week every year as a way of celebrating the
talent and diversity of staff and students at the IOE. Through a
series of seminars, workshops, panel discussions and cultural
performances we explore and celebrate education in the broadest sense.
We are delighted to welcome students, staff, guest speakers and
performers to participate in this event.

We have many IOE students and staff from around the world representing
music education in a range of countries, and this call is for those
who would wish to contribute to a session on:

"Musical Practices and public policies across the world: the role of
music education"

The session is planned to run from 12-2pm on Friday 26 April, and the
format will be 10-15minute presentations on a relevant area of study
or research, followed by Q&A for a further 10-15 minutes.

We warmly encourage submissions from IOE students for this session,
and hope to include up to 6 students (there is a possibility of
extending the length of the session if more applications are
submitted).

Submission details
To be considered for a place at this session please send an informal
abstract on the topic you would like to speak about (suggested length
200 words) to Susan McGrath at
s.mcgrath@ioe.ac.uk<mailto:s.mcgrath@ioe.ac.uk> as soon as possible,
but by 5th April at the latest.

FREE INSET COURSE: Succeeding through vision based leadership and group power

FREE INSET COURSE
Succeeding through vision based leadership and group power. A free
course that presents the benefits of agile and lean thinking, systemic
work, and the group as a catalyst for getting things done!
Room 938 Institute of Education, University of London 20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Thursday 4 April 2013 10.00am–16:30pm
For further details and to book a place contact: Dr Evangelos Himonides
email: e.himonides@ioe.ac.uk
ioe.ac.uk

Book Now! this course has limited availability; the maximum number of
participants is 12!
priority will be given to:
§. Doctoral Research Students;
§. Early Career Researchers;
§. Professional Members of Staff that are
involved in project management and project administration.
The session is going to be videotaped for research purposes. Booking
gives consent to being videotaped.
In the second part of the session (after lunch) you will have the
opportunity to interact with a prototype virtual social learning game.
Please bring your laptop with you (Windows 7 or 8 only) if you have
access to either the IoE Wireless network or Eduroam.
Clinicians: Dr Eija Makirintala & Dr Olli-Pekka Makirintala, Altonova
Ltd, Finland.

Music Encoding Conference: Call for late-breaking papers/posters

The Music Encoding Conference 2013
Concepts, Methods, Editions
22-24 May, 2013

The Program Committee is happy to announce that "late-breaking" paper
and poster submissions will be accepted until April 7th.
"Late-breaking" papers and posters usually describe projects or
research under development or present results that were not available
at the time of the original call for submissions.

"Late-breaking" submissions will be subject to the same review process
as before. Please visit
https://music-encoding.org/conference/submission for more details.
Please note that there is very limited space for additional oral
presentations and posters. Notification of acceptance will occur on or
before April 22nd.

If you have any questions, please contact conference2013@music-encoding.org.

Music, the Self, and Education in the “Looking Glass”

Research Seminar Announcement

Music, the Self, and Education in the "Looking Glass": Making the
Case for a Social Theory of Music Education from the Ground Up

Dr Hildegard Froehlich, Professor emeritus, College of Music,
University of North Texas, Denton Texas, USA

Thursday 18th April, 2013

12.45-1.45

Room 944

Further details from Lucy Green, l.green2@ioe.ac.uk

All are welcome!

Internationally, nationally, and—certainly in the United States—
regionally, music education is a field of diverse occupational
practices, conventions, speciality areas, work settings, and
corresponding expectations for professional conduct and values. School
music is but one of those many conventions, informed in a variety of
ways by prevailing social, educational, musical, and cultural norms.
To provide music educators anywhere with a common bond and purpose
that spans across norms, work settings and geographic locales, a
rationale, a raison d'être, for the profession at large would serve
the purpose of articulating what in the medical profession is known as
the Hippocratic Oath. It is a commitment to "doing no harm" amidst the
myriad of medical decisions a physician has to make daily; whether as
a highly specialized surgeon, internist, researcher, or generalist. In
a diversity of practices, the oath remains the same for everyone.

My lecture-discussion proposes a similarly guiding principle for music
education derived from the theory of social interactionism. Central to
the theory is the metaphor of "looking glass self," a term coined by
the American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley more than 100 years
ago. The metaphor stands for the idea that self-image and identity are
constructed in an individual's interaction with the world as
represented by the groups of individuals with whom she comes into
contact. The interpretation of the world at large reflects the
experiences with those individual interactions.

Social interactionism explains and accounts for any divergent
aesthetic and social practices, conducts, and values among social and
reference groups, private and public special interest groups, and
communities of practice. It explains diversity but also finds
commonalities in differences, thereby providing the theoretical basis
for music educators anywhere to share and subscribe to one guiding
code: To affirm and make possible music learning as a right for all
human beings of all races and ages, at all levels and forms of
education. Consequences for political action and appropriate
pedagogies are outlined and discussed.

*
Hildegard Froehlich, Professor emeritus, College of Music, University
of North Texas, continues to be professionally active as author,
consultant, teacher, and speaker on issues concerning the application
of sociological constructs to the learning and teaching of music at
the collegiate level. Her latest books are Sociology for Music
Teachers. Perspectives for Practice (Pearson Prentice-Hall 2007) and
(with C. Frierson-Campbell) Inquiry in Music Education. Concepts and
Methods for the Beginning Researcher (Routledge 2013). She has been
the keynote speaker at international and national conferences in music
education and has served as president of the Research Alliance of
Institutions for Music Education, an international organization whose
members join by invitation. She continues to be active musically in
her community by singing with the Denton Bach Chorus of the Denton
Bach Society (an organization she co-founded in 1976). She also loves
to dance (be it Ballroom, Swing, or Country & Western).

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Launch of The UK Association for Music Education ­ Music Mark

Launch of The UK Association for Music Education - Music Mark

This morning we held the official launch event for the new
organisation at the Royal Society of the Arts. Invited guests from
across music education and the music industry attended and heard about
the aims, purpose and activities of the new organisation and were
asked to consider how they could link in with us in strategic
partnerships to help achieve a better musical future for all our
children.

The Carrodus Quartet, Oxfordshire Music Service, provided two
performances and Jo Mundell-Perkins, from the group, was the first
speaker and talked about what her music education and the
opportunities she has access to, mean to her. Darren Henley OBE, said
in his speech that: " The government has made it clear that it wants
to engage with a single voice for music education. There are lots of
reasons for not joining together, but also lots of reasons to do so.
We must have an infrastructure to support music teachers and show them
that they are valued." Chair, Nigel Taylor referred in his speech to
rapid changes in government policy and commented: "We've got schools
who are bewildered about where music should sit in their
consciousness." He went on to say that Music Mark would argue
powerfully for a coherent vision for music in schools.

Nigel was delighted to announce that Charles Hazlewood is our new Patron:

"I was thrilled to be invited to be the first Patron of The UK
Association for Music Education - Music Mark and which I accept with
delight. It is a privilege to be a part of this new organisation which
builds upon the illustrious pasts of the Federation of Music Services
and the National Association of Music Educators and looks forward with
vision, ambition and a huge range of talent and skill amongst its
membership

A great music education, up-close and personal, is not a luxury for
the few, it's a birth-right for all! Whether its an opportunity to
play a musical instrument or sing or compose or improvise or play in a
band or an orchestra (or hopefully all of those and more) music is
sovereign amongst all subjects in being able to spark young people's
imagination, unleash their creativity, stimulate their social
conscience and galvanise their sense of community and belonging"

Finally - I am extremely pleased to announce that our brand new
website will go live tomorrow morning (19th March). The second phase
of development will include the password protected Membership area of
the website and is expected to be ready in early May. Please visit the
website on www.musicmark.org.uk<http://www.musicmark.org.uk> from
Tuesday morning.

With all best wishes,

Yours Virginia
Virginia Haworth-Galt
Chief Executive
The UK Association for Music Education - Music Mark Suite 23, Tulip House,
70 Borough High Street
London, SE 1 1XF
0207 864 9985

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Thinking and Singing - registration open

Thinking and Singing - registration open

Registration is now open for the Thinking and Singing conference at
Senate House, University of London on Saturday 20 April. The booking
form and draft programme are available on the IMR website at
http://music.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences

Keynote speaker: Prof. Peter Wiegold (Brunel)


The aim of this conference is to find common conceptual ground amongst
professionals engaged in singing teaching and performance and to
identify some of the philosophical issues. The brief will be wide,
taking in different styles of singing, and some technical innovations.
As well as the scheduled papers, we invite students and practitioners
of singing and other performers to make short contributions to the
plenary sessions in order to create a comprehensive picture of what
those in the field think, and what informs their approach.




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