Music Education, Issue 17 (2007)

 

Contents:

1) Mirto Vouyouka: Teaching music in elementary education - Dreams and Reality.

2) Xanthoula Papapanagiotou: School music facing the new educational challenges.

3) Athanasios Papazaris: Interdisciplinary and Music Education.

4) Zoe Dionyssiou: The music teacher in interdisciplinary actions.

5) Aggelika Slavik: Literature, rhythm and expression.

6) Sophia Aggelidou: Workshop: Music, image and game.

7) Nikos Theodoridis & Christos Erkekoglou: Interdisciplinary and creative applications for "Filoi Mouzikantides".

8) Athanasia Chatzianteli, Olga Georgiadou & Elizana Pollatou: Recycling water: Description of an educational application for 1st grade children.

Abstracts:

1) Mirto Vouyouka
Teaching music in elementary education - Dreams and Reality

This study is divided in two parts: Dreams and Reality. Dreams, because with those starts the didactic career of a music teacher, and Reality, because, at the end, the practice is totally different from the Dream. Living this reality, the music teacher must overcome all the obstacles and prove to all (teachers, students and parents) that the lesson of music education is as essential as the rest of the lesson in a school curriculum. Because there are no music books made for the Elementary school, the music teacher may, through the books of each class, teach the first steps of music and the theory of music, and combine music with the rest of the lessons (Greek language, mathematics, history, study of the environment, geography, physics, theatrical education, Greek tradition, gymnastics, foreign languages) thus showing the importance of the music education at all classes of the Elementary school.

2) Xanthoula Papapanagiotou
School music facing the new educational challenges.

3) Athanasios Papazaris
Interdisciplinary and Music Education.

4) Zoe Dionyssiou
The music teacher in interdisciplinary actions

A great interest appears lately for the interdisciplinary approach in the educational process, which influences music education and the music teacher in many ways. Interdisciplinarity has been enacted in our country with the New Interdisciplinary Frame of Program Studies - Curriculum, but to most teachers it was not something unknown. Cooperation among various school subjects or between the arts and other subjects is something already tested and widespread that varies according to the experiences and interests of every teacher. Contemporary educational literature traces a great number of researches and proposals referring to the planning and implementation of interdisciplinary educational projects. Most of these studies agree on the significant contribution of the arts in children's education. In the present study we focus on the interdisciplinary approach and how it can help the music teacher. Studies and tendencies of contemporary music education in the frame of interdisciplinarity are reported. The study seeks o help the music teacher through suggesting ways of planning, preparing and implementing interdisciplinary projects. The main scope of the paper is to challenge how within the minimal amount of time he/she is given to and usually under difficult teaching conditions, the music teacher can extend the meaning and prospect of music in school and contribute to widening the students' aesthetic culture through interdisciplinary projects and other innovative actions in education.

5) Aggelika Slavik
Literature, rhythm and expression

The present workshop is based on the new book of Greek Literature texts taught in primary education (Anthologio Logotexnikon Keimenon). Three points were presented: I. Speech and rhythm - The rhythm of speech, II. The expressive pronunciation of a text with music instruments, III. The elaboration of music topics which could be inspired from a literature text.

6) Sophia Aggelidou
Workshop: Music, image and game

This article represents a description of the workshop under the title "Music, image and game" that took place in the ground of the meeting "Interdisciplinarity in music education". The basic concepts and the benefits of the use of iconographic material in the school class are introduced as also the standards through which the educator chooses the iconographic material that can be used. Moreover, the reader can find experienced and creative music-pedagogical activities that acted out during the workshop and their intention was to bring the participants in contact with the musical thought in Ancient Greece.

7) Nikos Theodoridis & Christos Erkekoglou
Workshop: Interdisciplinary and creative applications for "Filoi Mouzikantides"

The present workshop is based on Nikos Theodoridis book with CD, titled "Filoi Mouzikantides", and published by Kroustophono Percussion Group (2005)."Filoi Mouzikantides" is a theatrical play for preschool and primary school children with interdisciplinary, intercultural and creative artistic activities. Additionally, the book includes the theoretical background and pedagogical methodology for teaching and performing the play.

8) Athanasia Chatzianteli, Olga Georgiadou & Elizana Pollatou
Recycling water: Description of an educational application for 1st grade children

The activity describes how the teachers could use an interdisciplinary teaching model and give children the possibility to understand about the recycling water, create a dramatic improvisation and communicate between them. A nice story gives young children the opportunity to learn, to play lots of roles - to step out of themselves and into the world of make believe.