Music education
South Africa: From the Club to the Classroom - All That Jazz Is Good for the Kids
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- Thursday, 12 May 2016
The kids obviously know the moon. They know what it does and how it works. We spoke about the people who landed on the moon - the Frank Sinatra version of the song was also played for the Apollo astronauts. Then they started to learn the song.
Australia: Arts leaders wish for key role in government innovation program
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- Thursday, 12 May 2016
“Only one-quarter of the children in Australia have specialised music and arts education in their schools, which I find quite shocking. This shocks me not as a practitioner of the arts but as a human being."
Zimbabwe: Why Music Education Is Vital
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- Thursday, 12 May 2016
Music education has the potential not only to nurture the emotional development of individual Zimbabwean learners, but also to enhance harmonious social interaction between these learners and aid the country as a whole.
Contemporary pop music takes on a Chinese classical twist
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- Thursday, 12 May 2016
Some Chinese classical musicians are adopting contemporary pop into their repertoire to reach out to a younger audience. But not everyone agrees with such experimentation.
La musique aide les bébés à apprendre à parler
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- Thursday, 12 May 2016
Les chercheurs ont comparé 20 enfants de neuf mois apprenant à reproduire des rythmes de musique en tapant sur un petit tambour dans un laboratoire à 19 autres nourrissons du même âge jouant avec d'autres jouets, comme des voitures ou des cubes.
What a Well-rounded Music Education Should Mean for All Students
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- Wednesday, 04 May 2016
But what does a well-rounded education mean and is the definition different for different audiences of students?
Conservatories at the Crossroads
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- Wednesday, 04 May 2016
Every few years comes a knock on the door from critics newly convinced that music conservatories have become irrelevant, and that even the best ones are still too focused on learning how to “wiggle your fingers.”
Why music education needs to incorporate more diversity
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- Wednesday, 04 May 2016
How can classrooms become more culturally responsive in their teaching practices in classrooms and foster respectful behavior?
How music skills may help babies learn language
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- Wednesday, 04 May 2016
Babies who learned to keep waltz time during play sessions showed stronger brain responses to timing mistakes in both music and speech, suggesting that music training could help them learn to talk.
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