Playful Sounds – Personhood This conference will stimulate new thinking about music and the expressive arts through a dynamic European network of educators and researchers whose meeting together will no doubt benefit Europe's young children and their families' wellbeing and aesthetic lives. Jessica Pitt - CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' board member “Playful sounds” describe the possibilities that music and arts have in our lives. The playfulness of creativity enables us to experience and reflect on our life in a new way. At a first glance playfulness and personhood may seem to be contrasting understandings and attitudes intending – from a conservative point of view – a development from the first to the latter. But in our view, as well as in the context of interdisciplinary and innovative arts approaches and education today these are rather complementary and intertwined concepts cross fertilizing each other on manifold levels. Tiina Selke - CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference chair Gerhard Lock - CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference organizer Laura Huhtinen-Hildén - CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' board member Music allows us to imagine, create, and share sounds with other people in ways that are playful, engaging, and personal and yet socially inclusive. Tuomas Eerola - CFMAE-MERYC2015 keynote speaker EuNetMERYC and CFMAE-MERYC2015 board CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference main speakers CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' team cfmaemeryc2015.wordpress.com/ Tiina Selke, PhD Professor of Music Education Didactics, Department of Music, Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University & Ääsme School Teacher, Estonia CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference chair TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer Kindergarten/School/Music School program organizer EuNet MERYC board member ETIS CV Gerhard Lock Lecturer of Musicology, Department of Music, Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University, Estonia Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonia (PhD candidate) CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer REMEC Research Methodology Course organizer TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer TLU Music Department CV Michel Hogenes Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands EuNet MERYC chair EuNet MERYC board member CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer EuNetMERYC website CV Michel Hogenes is a lecturer of music education at the teacher education department and a researcher in the research group Youth and Development of The Hague University in The Netherlands. He also lectures pedagogy and psychology at Codarts, the Rotterdam School of Music. Michel’s research interests are in the field of primary & early childhood education and music, with a focus on child development, and curriculum. The theoretical framework of his research is the cultural-historical (Vygotskian) approach. Besides lecturing Michel conducts a community choir and he is also president of Gehrels Music Education, a Dutch association for music education. Jessica Pitt, PhD Research Associate, Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom MERYC-UK chair EuNet MERYC board member CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer EuNetMERYC website CV Jessica Pitt is Chair of MERYC-UK which hosts a national early childhood music education conference every two years. She completed her doctoral research (funded by The Froebel Institute) at the University of Roehampton investigating the role of parentchild music group activities with participants in Children’s Centres. She is a research associate for the Froebel Research Fellowship Project, lectures for the Early Childhood Studies degree programme at University of Roehampton, and is course tutor for the MA in early years music at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham. She believes in the tremendous positive professional development that can take place when practitioners and academics meet together. Laura Huhtinen-Hildén, PhD Senior Lecturer, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland EuNet MERYC board member CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer Helsinki Metropolia CV EuNetMERYC website CV Since 2007 Laura Huhtinen-Hildén (Ph.D MMus, music therapist) has been working as the Senior Lecturer in music education at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. From 2009-2011 she was Head of Studies in the music degree programme. Her special responsibility is for the programme in early childhood music education and community music and she also coordinates research and development work within the degree programme (director of the CultureBridge- EU-project 2008-2011). Her research “Towards sensitive music teaching. Pathways to becoming a professional music educator” (2012) focuses on the formation process of the professional skills needed in music teaching, the development of expertise and sense of professional identity formed during the study/learning process in order to become a music educator. She has been developing the content and structure of the studies in the degree programme to be more learner-centered and to focus on participatory teaching methods. Her pedagogical areas of specialization are: early childhood music education, special music education, pre-instrumental music education, arts integration and movement, as working methods in music education. Stefanie Stadler Elmer, PhD Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Zürich University, Switzerland CFMAE-MERYC main speaker EuNet MERYC board member CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer University of Zurich CV EuNetMERYC website CV Prof. Dr. Stefanie Stadler Elmer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the University of Bern and her Habilitation from the University of Zurich. Important book publications are: Spiel und Nachahmung (play and imitation, 2000); Kinder singen Lieder (children sing songs, 2002). Her main interests in research and teaching concern the development of music and language, song singing, and methods to foster early development in these domains. She is involved in several research projects at national and international levels, e.g., as a collaborator in the AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing), supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and UMSIC (usability of music for the social inclusion of children), an interdisciplinary project funded by the EU. Jaan Valsiner, PhD Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA CFMAE-MERYC main speaker REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer Aalborg University CV Clark University CV Private website Jaan Valsiner is the Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology and Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his interdisciplinary work on human development. Read more (PDF) Graham Welch, PhD Professor and Chair of Music Education, Institute of Education, University College London, London, United Kingdom SEMPRE chair CFMAE-MERYC main speaker Institute of Education CV Tuomas Eerola, PhD Professor of Music Cognition/Empirical Musicology, Department of Music, Durham University, United Kingdom CFMAE-MERYC main speaker Durham University CV Rūta Girdzijauskienė, PhD Professor at the Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy, Klaipeda University, Lithuania EAS board member CFMAE-MERYC main speaker Klaipeda University CV Nikolaos Zafranas, PhD Assoc. Professor at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece CFMAE-MERYC main speaker MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer TEDx Athens CV CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' team Vaike Kiik-Salupere, PhD Associated Professor of Vocal Studies, Head of Department of Music, Institute of Fine Arts Tallinn University, Estonia CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer ETIS CV Marit Mõistlik-Tamm, PhD Lecturer of Music, Department of Music Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University, & Tallinn Adult Learning Centre, Estonia Maternal leave since February 2015 CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer ETIS CV Paul Beaudoin, PhD Associate Prof. in Music Theory and Interdisciplinary Arts, Online Learning Specialist Fitchburg University MA, United States of America Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts Department of Music Fulbright Scholar Spring 2015 CFMAE-MERYC2015 round table discussion moderator Wikipedia CV Organizational support at the Department of Music Karin Org, project manager at Tallinn University Conference Center Liisi Järve, study coordinator Ariel Marksalu & Madli Luik, student assistants Raul Talmar & Merike Aarma, coordinators and conductors of „Musical Moments“ Avo Ulvik, technical coordinator Pille Saar, Tiit Lauk & Valdo Rüütelmaa, conference support Auri Niilo & Lilian Jõesaar, book shop MA and BA students Partners at Tallinn University Conference Center Institute of Educational Sciences Institute of Psychology
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