Musicianship: Level 6
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Musicianship: Level 7/8 (Advanced studies)
Daily interactive sessions covering engaging activities for all years of Primary that promote the development of musicianship through both rigor and creativity. Explore modes of learning and assessing to ‘turn on’ the most ‘turned off’ students. Sessions will include new activities for familiar tunes, lesser-known folk repertoire and songs from outside of the folk and classical genres with a focus on effectively fostering students’ understanding and skills through active music making.
There is a unique educational approach, where music is a great tool for the learning-teaching process, where we can step closer to ourselves using full attention, self-expression, openness, acceptance, silence and last, but not least creativity.
This path has been set by one of Hungary’s most inspiring music pedagogues, the late Klára Kokas, who proved that the Kodály concept of music education is not a closed educational system, but it can be complemented by various creative pedagogical approaches. This experience-based pedagogy has its roots in the Kodály philosophy. An encounter with the most beautiful songs and lyrics of folk music, the active, profound reception of classical masterpieces is the most authentic manifestation of Kodály’s idea that “music is everyone’s”.
The principles of Klára Kokas’ music pedagogy lie in her realization that the best way to guide people towards concentrated attention and an absolute perception of classical music is through movement, activity, and creative work. Her pedagogy uses an age-appropriate, holistic approach with both children and adults to help them perceive music in its totality.
Come barefoot, bring comfortable clothes😊
With early childhood educators needing to teach across a huge developmental range (0-5 years), this workshop is based upon tried and tested repertoire examples, that are developmental, sequential and link to the Early Years Learning Framework. Repertoire will include indigenous music, and Australian composers, appropriate for the early years. I will show you how I take a song, rhyme or recorded music piece and use it across 5 age groups, with or without props, using percussion where appropriate and a range a movement experiences. This workshop will be lots of fun, very active and applicable in your own teaching contexts.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children’s views should be given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child. The research literature refers to this as student agency. In a recent report from the Australian Human Rights Commission, children nationwide stated that “having a say in matters that are important to them” is a right that is “least true” for them. The same report recommended that solutions to this should be investigated as a national priority. However, despite the awareness of student agency as a national human rights issue little change has occurred in recent years beyond the growth of student agency as an educational buzzword.
In this presentation, we will look at how different conceptions of agency play out in a Kodaly-informed music classroom. We will take a critical look at where Kodaly-informed pedagogy is in troubled dialogue with practices that support student agency. As well as gently push back against shallow conceptions that reduce student agency to simply song choice, projects on orchestral instruments, and favourite band posters.
This presentation is based on research completed in a Kodaly-informed music classroom in a Victorian government secondary school.
Year 4 and 5 students at Camberwell Grammar will be taught as class demonstration in Kodaly-inspired, aural-vocal approach. There will be an opportunity to unpack the lesson plan after the class.