scholarly journals Harmony or Discord? Understanding children's valuations of a Sistema-inspired initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
System Model ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Children’S Accounts

This article explores children's reflections on the value of their participation in In Harmony, a social and music education programme whose approach and philosophy derives from the Venezuelan ‘El Sistema’ (‘The System’) model. More specifically, through an analysis of participating children's accounts (n=111) and an exploration of the key patterns evident within children's attribution of value to their In Harmony participation, the article highlights a series of ways in which the initiative's approach to music and musical learning threaten to undermine its core aims.

scholarly journals Making music, making language

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Ofelia Garcia ◽  
Angélica Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Crack Open ◽  
Music Making ◽  
El Sistema

This article reframes how the making of music by minoritized bilingual Latinxchildren is interrelated to their languaging and their literacies’ performances.Taking a translanguaging approach, musicking/languaging/performing literacies are described here as holistic critical meaning-making processes. Focusing on the process by which students make meaning of texts, and not simply on the output or product of such meaning-making, this article shows how a music education programme based on El Sistema and designed for social change transforms minoritized children’s critical sense of their positions and subjectivities as producers of language and literacies. Through music education, long considered only an enrichment activity from which language minoritized students are often excluded, bilingual Latinx children are able to crack open a vision for themselves and others as competent, dignified, and valid meaning-makers—as performers of complex acts of language and literacies.

scholarly journals El sistema de evaluación de la práctica profesional docente: un estudio de caso de una carrera de pedagogía en educación musical en una universidad confesional

2016 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Pérez Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
Professional Teaching

RESUMENEl objetivo de esta investigación cualitativa es analizar el sistema de evaluación de la práctica profesional, a través del análisis de las percepciones de profesores principiantes de la carrera de Educación Musical. Este estudio aporta a construir y reconstruir la realidad que vivieron 17 profesores principiantes mientras fueron estudiantes en práctica, permitiendo crear líneas de acción en aspectos descendidos si fueran necesarios. Además, se proponen algunos tópicos emergentes para realizar posteriores investigaciones relacionadas con el tema de investigación.Palabras clave: Sistema de evaluación, práctica profesional docente, profesor principiante. Evaluation system of professional teaching practice: A study case of a music education degree in a denominational universityABSTRACTThe objective of this qualitative research is to analyze the evaluation system of the professional practice through the analysis of perceptions of beginning teachers graduated with a Music Education Degree. This study brings to construct and reconstruct the reality that beginning 17 teachers lived while they were internship students, allowing to create lines of action in aspects as necessary. In addition, some emerging topics are proposed for further research related to this topic.Keywords: Evaluation system, teacher professional practice, beginning teacher.

scholarly journals Does music soothe the soul? Evaluating the impact of a music education programme in Medellin, Colombia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Daniel Gómez-Zapata ◽  
Luis César Herrero-Prieto ◽  
Beatriz Rodríguez-Prado
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
The Impact

“We will fight Goliath”: Negotiation of space for musical agency in children’s music education

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Karin Kuuse
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
String Orchestra ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
El Sistema

Following a music philosophy debate deriving from the 1990s, this article puts the extra-musical and social outcomes of situated music educational practices at the fore. The Swedish replica of the choir and orchestra school El Sistema, a programme globally asserting social change and social impact, appeared useful for elaborating such outcomes in practice. Following this, the present study aims to empirically elaborate musical agency as an analytical concept to understand children’s experiences, while at the same time discussing musical agency in relation to a social discursive view on practice. A Swedish El Sistema children’s string orchestra was followed for three months and the material for analysis consists of audio recordings and observation notes from lessons, performances and family events, as well as documents surrounding the activities. Constructions of discipline, empowerment and space are revealed as affecting opportunities for musical agency. The study thus elaborates on discursive constraints and opportunities for agency negotiation while discussing social outcomes with and within music education.

Part 1: Community Music Therapy and El Sistema: Addressing the Empowerment Needs of Individuals and Communities Facing Socioeconomic Marginalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Virginia Eulacio Cierniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Program Structure ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Music Program ◽  
El Sistema

Music is an accessible tool for positive change within people and societies, even in places facing socioeconomic marginalization due to poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources. Social capital has to do with the resources and networks available within society, which may help confront issues faced by individuals and communities. Community Music Therapy (CoMT) and the music education movement known as El Sistema both utilize music—understood as social capital—to address social justice. The purpose of this study was to comparatively examine the ways in which CoMT and El Sistema programs may address the empowerment needs of individuals and communities facing socioeconomic marginalization and suggest how these two approaches may be able to work synergistically to achieve their shared goals. Its findings reveal many parallels and divergence between El Sistema and CoMT in terms of the role of the music, program structure, social justice goals, outcomes, music education practice, areas of intersection, existing scholarly research, and criticisms each has received.

Relationship, Rescue, and Culture

2015 ◽  
pp. 566-581
Author(s):  
Eric Shieh
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Simon Bolivar ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Strategic Implementation ◽  
Cultural Colonialism ◽  
Western Classical Music

In recent years, Venezuela’s anti-poverty El Sistema program (officially named the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar) has roared onto the international music scene, offering a rare, large-scale example of the participation of music education in social policy. Yet El Sistema’s socioeconomic effects are neither assured nor fully understood, much less easily adaptable abroad. Reading El Sistema’s complex engagements with an eye to how it works as a social program, the author examines in particular its decentralization and capacity to function as a space of care, its discourse and structures around creating a space of “rescue” for youth, and its curricular focus of Western classical music. While these areas raise several cautions, including charges of deficit thinking and cultural colonialism, the program’s own tensions and negotiations also suggest paths for strategic implementation. In this, El Sistema offers music educators and policymakers some possibilities for entering critically into oftentimes familiar practices.

Music Education in Teacher Training in Denmark

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preben Fahnøe
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Quality Of Instruction ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Teacher Education Programme ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Teacher Training Colleges ◽  
The Subject

From time to time the standard and content of musical education in Danish Teacher Training Colleges has been the subject of strong criticism. It has been argued that the courses are out of date; that they should be modernised, and that the quality of instruction should be improved. Yet the criticism is often imprecise – possibly because those who make it are not themselves sufficiently well-informed about the details of the existing courses and the problems faced by those who have to teach and administer them. The author, a very experienced musician, author of numerous music-education publications, and himself a Lecturer at a Teachers College, discusses the principles and problems of organising music as a specialist area of the teacher-education programme.

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