Didactic qualities of piano pieces for children by Miłosz Magin (1929-1999)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1 (10)) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Krystyna Juszyńska
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Level ◽  
Piano Technique ◽  
The World ◽  
Vocal Works ◽  
Proper Interpretation ◽  
Rhythmic Structures

Miłosz Magin was a renowned Polish pianist and composer. He was born in Łódź, studied in Warsaw, was a prizewinner of several international piano competitions, successfully concerted all over the world and in 1960 he finally settled down in Paris. His compositional output covers numerous piano pieces, orchestral, chamber and vocal works, as well as a ballet. Pieces for children constitute an important and relatively large part of his oeuvre. The article discusses five cycles of miniatures (38 pieces in total), dedicated to pupils at the elementary level of piano learning: Obrazki z Polski (1982), Miniatury polskie (1982), Kółko graniaste (1987), Karnawał lalek for four hands (1990) and Zaczarowane zabawki (1996). The pieces have didactic qualities and play the two roles: they gradually introduce a pupil into the world of music and they help to master the piano technique. They develop, in particular, fingers’ dexterity, chordal and arpeggio technique, precision while realization various rhythmic structures, mastery of large leaps on the keyboard. Performing Magin’s music sensitizes to the timbre of pitches in different registers, to changeable dynamics, original harmony, bitonality, phrasing, articulation, agogic and proper interpretation. His compositions develop children’s imagination and familiarize them with diverse timbres of the piano. They are little masterpieces, put into a terse form of a miniature.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Geolocation Information through Mobile-Devices under Different COVID-19 Mobility Restriction Patterns in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Raquel Pérez-Arnal ◽  
David Conesa ◽  
Sergio Alvarez-Napagao ◽  
Toyotaro Suzumura ◽  
Martí Català ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Experimental Setting ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Restriction Patterns ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Proper Interpretation

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the world in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. Human mobility, being the greatest facilitator for the spread of the virus, is at the epicenter of this change. In order to study mobility under COVID-19, to evaluate the efficiency of mobility restriction policies, and to facilitate a better response to future crisis, we need to understand all possible mobility data sources at our disposal. Our work studies private mobility sources, gathered from mobile-phones and released by large technological companies. These data are of special interest because, unlike most public sources, it is focused on individuals rather than on transportation means. Furthermore, the sample of society they cover is large and representative. On the other hand, these data are not directly accessible for anonymity reasons. Thus, properly interpreting its patterns demands caution. Aware of that, we explore the behavior and inter-relations of private sources of mobility data in the context of Spain. This country represents a good experimental setting due to both its large and fast pandemic peak and its implementation of a sustained, generalized lockdown. Our work illustrates how a direct and naive comparison between sources can be misleading, as certain days (e.g., Sundays) exhibit a directly adverse behavior. After understanding their particularities, we find them to be partially correlated and, what is more important, complementary under a proper interpretation. Finally, we confirm that mobile-data can be used to evaluate the efficiency of implemented policies, detect changes in mobility trends, and provide insights into what new normality means in Spain.

scholarly journals Pre-service Astronomy Education of Teachers

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1044-1045
Author(s):  
Mary Kay Hemenway
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Secondary Teacher ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
General Science ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
The World

There is little research on elementary/secondary teacher preparation. Few teachers are called upon to teach astronomy specifically, or their astronomy teaching is peripheral to their main interest (e.g., general science at lower levels or physics at higher levels). Statistics indicate that large increases in student populations are expected throughout the world. “In 1997, 1.2 billion students were enrolled in schools around the world. Of these students, 668 million were in elementary-level programs, 398 million were in secondary programs, and 88 million were in higher education programs.” (Digest, 2002) These figures included large increases from the 1990 figures, e.g. 38% increase in secondary education and 68% in higher education for Africa, as opportunities to obtain an education and population both grew. (Digest, tables 395 and 412).

scholarly journals The Wall in the Middle of the Book by J. Agee

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Baird
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Moral Lesson

Agee, Jon. The Wall In The Middle Of The Book. Penguin-Random House Canada, 2018. Jon Agee is a beloved author and illustrator who, through his many books, has accumulated praise and awards alike. The Wall in the Middle of the Book, is his 23rd book and it’s a beautiful and simplistic story that incorporates his brand of humour and valuable lessons. Agee, however, takes a unique direction with this book in his use of a literary device by breaking the fourth wall to make the story meta. The story follows a knight who explains the situation of there being a wall in the middle of the book that you, the reader, is reading. The knight is content with the situation, as he knows of all the perceived dangers on the other side of the wall including an ogre, who he believes would eat him if he gets caught. The knight is then put into a situation where he has to face his preconceived notions to survive. The fourth wall break was an interesting and engaging metafictive device to use in the story. The book had simple writing that would juxtapose what illustrations were showing, like when the knight would say how great things were on his side while the water began to rise and danger loomed, adding to the humour. The Wall in the Middle of the Book’s lesson is very useful in today’s world, and the idea of what or who lies on the other side of “walls” in the world, and not assuming what those things or people are like. This book easily could work for a number of audiences based on the simplicity and depth of moral lesson it touches on. This would also be effective in showcasing a dialogue-driven book. This book is an elementary level book that can be universally enjoyed in all classrooms.  Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Spencer Baird

Erasmus Lecture 2005 From science to education: the need for a revolution

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE LÉNA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Education For All ◽  
New Developments ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
The World

Primary education for all seems on the way to being achieved throughout the world within a couple of decades, despite the deep inequalities and lack of resources that remain. Science education at an elementary level, during the first years of school, should now be considered as essential to the cultural, civic, ethical, economic and technical development of humans and societies, in a context of globalization, as the triad ‘reading–writing–arithmetic’ has been during the two last centuries. Yet current education practice – which often characterizes science lessons in developed countries as well as in developing ones, when they exist at all – is quite unsatisfactory, as it is more concerned with transferring knowledge of facts than with scientific literacy, and misses the goal of capacity building. New developments in the last decade, based on inquiry pedagogy and often proposed or led by science Academies, have demonstrated another way to communicate science, and to involve and train teachers. In France, the United States and Sweden, but also in China, Brazil and Egypt, the results of this new approach have led to great hopes for transformation, fully supported by science academies. In Europe, a recently implemented EU programme aims at similar goals, in the spirit of the Lisbon objectives toward a society of knowledge.

Language processing and the evolution of rhythmic patterns: Asymmetries in binary stress systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Stress System ◽  
Prosodic Word ◽  
The World ◽  
Stress Patterns ◽  
Selective Process ◽  
Rhythmic Structures

AbstractRhythmic stress is assigned automatically in everyday speech. Usually, it is produced without conscious planning of which syllables have to be stressed. However, the ‘grammaticalisation’ of rhythmic patterns is the result of language processing. It is the outcome of a selective process which is proposed to lead to a preference or dispreference for specific rhythmic structures. In the languages of the world, judging by the typological data available, some rhythmic patterns seem to be completely avoided – even if this means an increase of complexity within a stress system. Focussing on asymmetries in binary stress systems, it is suggested in this paper that processing limitations in speech production motivate stress patterns. It is also demonstrated that the domain of the prosodic word is insufficient for a motivation of these asymmetries. Since one-word sentences are not the rule, but the exception, asymmetries find their motivation on the level of the sentence.

scholarly journals Grupy zamknięte na portalach społecznościowych inspiracją dla nauczycieli edukacji plastycznej. Świat plastyki w wirtualnej rzeczywistości

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Jasmina Al-Douri
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Closed Groups

Closed Groups in the Social Network — an Inspiration for Teachers in Art Education: The world of visual arts in virtual reality The article is a report on research that was carried out on closed groups on a social media with art education. It shows the exact structure of the group. It paints a picture of the netiquette that reigns in closed communities. It determines the area and creates a list of places where you can receive specific tips on teaching tools and materials as well as lesson plans in art education, along with the effects of creative and artistic activities. Groups that inspire creative activities with children in the school space are described. The presented areas create an ideal and safe place to exchange experiences for teachers dealing with art education from the first stage of education. Virtual space inspire and bring practical knowledge about the principles of designing didactic tasks and the language of art at the elementary level.

scholarly journals Students’ Future in the Virtual Sphere: Necessity of Personal, Social and Global Citizenship Education at Elementary Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-199
Author(s):  
Hafiz Kosar ◽  
Najam ul Kashif
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Compulsory Subject

School education serves as ladder and the students of today are leaders of future. Future of the generations is in clutches of virtual sphere. Pakistan, being a developing country is also working to meet the challenges of the world and pace with it. From class 1 to 8, the subject of Social Studies is taught as a compulsory subject to teach personal, social and citizenship Education to Pakistani students. Presented study was designed to highlight the dire need of aforementioned education in bridging the virtual sphere as well as to identify how much Personal, Social and global citizenship is conceptualized through the curriculum of Social Studies and what more is required to add up. To achieve the aim of the study, documental analysis of the social studies curriculum and textbooks was done. Each level book was analyzed according to the set parameters given by OXFAM (2015) and UNESCO (2015) Guides for Schools. The findings revealed textbooks need to improve some areas.

scholarly journals THE TYPE OF THE GENUS COCCUS

1906 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
M. E. Fernald
Keyword(s):  
Main Difficulty ◽  
The World ◽  
Proper Interpretation

In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. xxxiv, page 232 (1902), I gave the reasons for adopting hesperidum as the type of Coccus, which adoption caused such radical changes in the classification of the Cocciœ that I am free to say I hesitated to make them in my Catalogue of the Coccidæ of the World, published in 1903. The main difficulty was to give a proper interpretation to the action of Geoffroy, in his Histoire Abrégée des Insectes, Vol. I (1762), where he removed a part fo the Linnæan species from Coccus, and placed them in the genus Chermes, thus using this genus in a different sense from that of Linnæus, the original founder, and placing adonidum, phalaridis was given by Linnæus under the gensu Coccus, in his Systema Naturæ, ed. x (1758), and no one has ever been able to positively identify this insect.

Eschatological Imagery and Earthly Circumstance

1959 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Author(s):  
Amos N. Wilder
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Future State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Proper Interpretation

Ancient eschatological texts are, as literary remains, undecoded hieroglyphs and enigmas unless we are able to recreate the world of experience of which they are only ambiguous tokens. Modern study of biblical eschatology is constantly confronted with problems as to the proper interpretation of the cosmic and transcendental language. Depending on the context such questions arise as the following: Did the writer mean his words to be taken literally—including the references to immediate fulfilment? Are they to be read as ‘Oriental poetry’, or as ‘poetic heightening’, or as an ‘accommodation to language?’ Are we to take the figurative discourse as a ‘clothing’ of otherwise incommunicable revelation or vision? Is the cosmic language supposed to refer to ‘spiritual’, that is, super-mundane realities; or to such realities seen as paralleling earthly phenomena; or is it rather an imaginative version of the earthly phenomena themselves? At what points are we to recognize more or less transparent historization of older myth and symbol? Does the eschatological imagery of Deutero-Isaiah represent merely a poetic idealization of a mundane New Age while that of the late apocalypses denotes the absolute end of all created existence? Does this later dualistic eschatology signify in fact the end of the world and a sheerly miraculous future state, or does it teach by hyperbole the transformation of the world?

Generating Interest for Engineering in Early Childhood Education Through a Book About Dissection

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Chase ◽  
Kevin McCallen ◽  
Jackie Martin ◽  
Charles Kim
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Household Appliance ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The World ◽  
Educational Career ◽  
Class Presentation

In today’s world, it is critical to continually improve and develop new educational practices. Compared to developed and developing countries around the world, especially in science, mathematics, and engineering, the United States is falling behind. One of the most prominent reasons is the lack of interest in these subjects. In order to reverse this trend, it is important to develop new ways to creatively spark interest in engineering and natural sciences early on in a student’s educational career. The scope of this project was to develop a children’s book that introduced mechanical dissections. Along with the book, an in class presentation was developed for early elementary students in Kindergarten and 1st grade, with the goal of inspiring interest in engineering as a whole. This presentation was then used in local elementary school classrooms to gauge how such a program would fare in a typical elementary level classroom. Overall the project produced successful results. Not only were the students intrigued and excited to see the presentation, but they also learned more of the information than was originally expected. Through different media, the students were able to explore and question how and why a household appliance worked. This interaction with engineering concepts at a young age could prove to be very beneficial in the future.

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