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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Students’ Readiness for Musical Improvisation in the Context of Selected Assumptions of Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory

open access: yesEdukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce
The article is an attempt to highlight selected assumptions of Edwin E. Gordon’s music learning theory in the context of developing readiness for music improvisation at school and outside school.
Maciej Kołodziejski
doaj   +1 more source

A novel tool for evaluating children’s musical abilities across age and culture

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013
The present study introduces a novel tool for assessing musical abilities in children: The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Musical Abilities (MBEMA).
Isabelle ePeretz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Rhythm in National Music [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Musical Association, 1904
Modern music is derived from two sources—the music of the church, and the music of the people. The one was the result of rules and principles carefully laid down and strictly adhered to, the other was the instinctive expression of emotion and fancy; the one was the work of the highly-trained professional musician, the other came into existence we know ...
openaire   +1 more source

A Pedagogy of Wonder: A Spoken Word Poetic Inquiry Into the Complexities of Trauma and Teaching in TESOL

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This forum piece begins with a spoken word poem titled A Pedagogy of Wonder, performed by the author, through which the intersections of trauma, language teaching, and creative inquiry are explored. While TESOL scholarship has predominantly focused on refugee‐background or international students as “traumatized populations,” and on trauma ...
Jennifer Burton
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Change: Art Activism and Leadership Development

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 61-65, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article advocates the inclusion of the arts, and specifically, art activism, as a beneficial pedagogical approach to leadership development. Focus is given to using examples of art activism to introduce the student leader activist identity continuum (SLAIC), the exploration of leadership identity, and situating activism as transformative ...
Jessica A. Cruz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Musical Manifestations of Textual Patterning in Estonian Regilaul

open access: yesJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
The article analyses the marking of song text patterns by means of musical devices in the performances of Estonian regilaul. The article examines which variants of musical rhythm and melodic contour are preferred by four singers in their performance of ...
Janika Oras
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Bridging Leadership Development and Hip‐Hop Culture: Empowering Black Students Through Culturally Responsive Educational Approaches

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 89-95, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Hip‐hop music and culture have existed for decades in the United States. Since the 1970s, five critical elements have been defined as parts of hip‐hop culture: the MC (oral), the DJ (aural), graffiti (visual), knowledge (mental), and breakdancing (physical).
Jesse R. Ford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhythmic musical activities may strengthen connectivity between brain networks associated with aging-related deficits in timing and executive functions

open access: yesExperimental Gerontology
Brain aging and common conditions of aging (e.g., hypertension) affect networks important in organizing information, processing speed and action programming (i.e., executive functions).
Aaron Colverson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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