The UP Diliman College of Music (CMu) launched its World Expert Lecture Series (WELS) this October with the theme MusiKapatiran: Music Education and Intercultural Understanding in Challenging Times.
According to the CMu, WELS “brings globally recognized experts to UP to deepen scholarship, strengthen teacher practice, and foster intercultural understanding [and] spotlights intercultural perspectives, community-rooted approaches to music and learning.â€
As the opening lecture, WELS focused on world music pedagogy, featuring Patricia Shehan Campbell, a leading scholar in music education and pioneer of world music pedagogy.
Campbell discussed Early-Childhood Songs: For the Love of Young Children: Music to Know and Grow From on Oct. 3 at the CMu Minihall.
In her lecture brief, Campbell states, “young children are musically expressive on their own [and] they ‘grow’ their understanding of people and cultures, their language fluency, their social skills, and their physical coordination through the music experiences that teachers facilitate for them.â€
Campbell is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, chair of education at Smithsonian Folkways, and founder of World Music Pedagogy.
Campbell’s lecture was followed by a hybrid session in music education and ethnomusicology titled Criss-Crossing Fields: Evolutionary EM-ME Intersections held at the CMu Graduate Seminar Room and via Zoom.
The next lecture is a Philippine Society for Music Education webinar on research in music education for in-service teachers. It featured Research/Practice on Teaching Music Teaching Culture on Oct. 4 at the CMu Minihall and Zoom Workspace from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
WELS closes with Musikolohiya with Dr. Santos: UP Center for Ethnomusicology on Oct. 6 at the UP Center for Ethnomusicology Reading Room at 9 a.m. This features Pedagogical Instincts and Efforts: Views from a Teaching Ethnomusicologist.
WELS is presented in partnership with the Office for International Linkages, UP Center for Ethnomusicology, Philippine Society for Music Education, and UP Junior Music Educators’ Guild—With a report from the CMu
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