Music education
| Title | Μουσική εκπαίδευση / Music education |
| Code | ΕΘ1001 |
| Faculty | Fine Arts |
| School | Music Studies |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600013878 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Mousikṓn Spoudṓn (2017-sīmera)
Registered students: 40
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musicology / Music Education | Compulsory Course | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Music Composition | Compulsory Course | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
|
| Weekly Hours | 4 |
| Total Hours | 52 |
| Class ID | 600256863
|
Class Schedule
| Building | Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών (Θέρμη) |
| Floor | Ισόγειο |
| Hall | ΑΜΦΙΘΕΑΤΡΟ 8 (317) |
| Calendar | Venerdì 10:00 to 13:00 |
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600256863
- At the Website of the School: http://www.mus.auth.gr/cms/?q=en/node/118
- Other: http://calm.web.auth.gr
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The course “Music Education” intends to help the future music educators of the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki:
1) Get acquainted with the philosophy, research and interdisciplinary discourse of music education, in order for them to develop their critical thinking with regard to this academic knowledge and cultivate their own philosophical approach to the nature of music, in general, and music education, in particular, as well as to their importance for people’s lives,
2) Relate theory of music education to their own music educational experiences and aspirations, so that they stop feeling that the academic teaching of music education keeps the “real world” at a distance,
3) Get prepared to face the multiple music educational problems of the complex and continuously changing professional, socio-economic, and cultural realities.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course “Music Education” familiarizes fourth and/or fifth-year music students—future music educators— of the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the philosophy, interdisciplinary research and music educational practices.
Topics to be discussed throughout the semester are the following:
1) Music education and the role of music in people’s lives,
2) Review of philosophies and theoretical approaches to music education,
3) Interdisciplinary approaches to music education (Music Psychology/Cultural Studies),
4) Music teaching/learning processes as collaborative, social, and democratic action,
5) Music programs in new contexts,
6) Music improvisation and composition as music educational practices,
7) Roots, principles and contemporary applications if CMinED (Creative music in education movement)
Educational Material Types
- Video lectures
- Podcast
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Book
- Relevant literature excerpts
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 45 | 1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 40 | 1.3 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Artistic Workshop | 35 | 1.2 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 35 | 1.2 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 25 | 0.8 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Artistic creation | 45 | 1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Social service | 10 | 0.3 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 235 | 7.8 |
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Report (Formative, Summative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Eπιλογή κεφαλαίων από:
Ι. Μ.Yob, & E. R. Jorgensen (Eds.) (2020). Humane Music Education for the Common Good. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
hooks, b. (2014). Teaching to Τransgress. Routledge.
Hess, J. (2019). Music education for social change: Constructing an activist music education.
Routledge.
Baldwin, J. (1998). A talk to teachers. In T. Morrison (Ed.), James Baldwin: Collected essays
(pp. 678–86). Library of America. (Original work published 1963)
Ewell, P. (2020, August 11). Confronting Racism and Sexism in American Music Theory. Music
Theory’s White Racial Frame. https://musictheoryswhiteracialframe.wordpress.com/
Allsup R. Benedict E. & C. (Eds.) (2019). The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education (pp. 201-219). London, Ontario: Western University.
Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2021). Cage(d): Creativity and ‘the contemporary’ in music education — a sociological view. In R. Wright, G. Johansen, P. A. Kanellopoulos & P. Schmidt (Eds.), The Routledge handbook to the sociology of music education (377-392). London: Routledge.
McPherson, G., & Welch, G. (Eds.) (2018). Creativities, Technologies, and Media in Music Learning and Teaching. An Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Vol. 5 (pp .56-74). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Last Update
15-03-2025
