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Intercultural content in grammar school music instruction in Central European countries

Pannoniana, 2016
Music instruction is an area which requires the development of intercultural competences of learners, because music is essentially a multicultural art.
Amir Begić
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Absolute pitch: effects of timbre on note-naming ability.

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundAbsolute pitch (AP) is the ability to identify or produce isolated musical tones. It is evident primarily among individuals who started music lessons in early childhood.
Patrícia Vanzella, E Glenn Schellenberg
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Developing Interventions for Children's Exercise (DICE): a pilot evaluation of school-based exercise interventions for primary school children aged 7 to 8 years. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Developing Interventions for Children's Exercise (DICE) is an initiative aimed at determining effective school-based exercise programs.
Ashby, R, Daly-Smith, A, Hind, K, Jennings, A, MacKay, H, McKenna, J, Torgerson, D, Truscott, J   +7 more
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Finding One's Place: ESL Teachers' Experiences of Language and Identity in the School Spaces of Quebec

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers navigate their professional and linguistic identities within Quebec's complex linguistic landscape. Drawing on critical approaches to conceptualizing space, we examine physical and metaphorical spaces in schools as sites of identity negotiation and community building. Data
Philippa Parks, Caroline Riches, Katherine Hardin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study

Music & Science
Despite more than a century of research on music memorization and practicing strategies, there is a lack of comprehensive evidence on how instrumental music teachers teach memorization to children and adolescents in one-to-one lessons.
Chara Steliou, Kelly Jakubowski
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Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents an ongoing project to develop a freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. The national curriculum for music at Key Stages 1 and 2 calls for students to 'compose music for a range of purposes using the inter ...
Hart, AM
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Feature Article: ELT Materials

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract After providing a working definition of ELT materials that encompasses both commercial and noncommercial instructional resources, I differentiate between studies of materials content, consumption, and production, reviewing notable studies of each type, most of which have appeared in the pages of TQ.
Nigel Harwood
wiley   +1 more source

Individual appmach as means of improvement of quality of knowledge of pupils at lessons of music

Освітній вимір, 2006
The article studies the modern problems of using of the individual approach at music lessons.
M.V. Viktorova
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Characteristics, Connections, and Pedagogies

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we discuss content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in relation to content‐based instruction (CBI) and English medium instruction (EMI) with the aim of offering a concise summary of what this educational/language teaching approach entails and offers in terms of situated practices and research.
Darío Luis Banegas, Peter Launonen, Michael Budzenski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation [PDF]

, 2011
This report, commissioned from the NORC at the University of Chicago, investigates the relationship between arts education and arts participation, based on data from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts for 1982, 1992, 2002, and 2008.
Eric Hedberg, Nick Rabkin
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