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Ako - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of ako in arts classrooms. Ako involves reciprocal shared learning in the classroom and beyond.
Community Character: how arts and cultural strategies create reinforce and enhance sense of place (1.60 MB)
Arts and culture strategies help to reveal and enhance the underlying identity - the unique meaning value and character - of the physical and social form of a community. This identity is reflected through the community’s character or sense of place.
DocuWatch
On this site you will find hundreds of documentaries that have been found on the web all in one place all ready to watch. Particularly useful for visual arts and art history.
Education World Arts Chats
This chat site involves Robin C. Redmond associate director of the Center for Arts Policy Colombia College Chicago who is arguing the relevance and importance of the Arts being used as an integrated teaching/learning tool. He also advocates the involvement of community artists.
From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Dallas Blazes “Coordinated” Trail in Arts Education for City Young People
This Wallace-written feature examines the “Thriving Minds” initiative which aims to improve arts education for Dallas’ children especially the poorest. The effort a response to decades of decline in arts education across urban schools coordinates the work of schools city agencies cultural institutions and other groups involved in arts learning.
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts
This report challenges the prevailing view that the arts have public value because they promote the “instrumental” benefits of broad social and economic goals such as economic growth and better academic performance. The study commissioned by The Wallace Foundation offers a new framework for understanding the value of the arts. The authors consider intrinsic benefits such as aesthetic pleasure and captivation in addition to having private personal value play a central role in the generation of arts benefits to the public realm.
Guide to Electronic Music
Everything you always wanted to know about electronic music including news reviews interviews party reports artist profiles label profiles diaries tutorials and links. There is an interactive forum and chat site and a FAQ area.
Historical music
Examples of historical music in the community.
Home of Poi
A website which has some interesting information about poi to supplement what might be gained from other resources. Check out the links as well. Suitable for primary and/or secondary programmes.
Home Recording Connection
A very full resource site for those interested in home recording. Articles include; Computer Based Do It Yourself Effects & Signal Processing Miking Techniques Mixing and Multitracking Music on the Internet Premastering & Mastering Product Reviews Songwriting Suggested Books Suggested Magazines.
Improved Learning through Piano Instruction
A McGill University study found that pattern recognition and mental representation scores improved significantly for students given piano instruction over a three-year period. They also found that self-esteem and musical skills measures improved for the students given piano instruction. Presented at the meeting of the Music Educators National Conference Phoenix AZ April 1998
Instrumental Instruction Improves Academic Achievement
University studies conducted in Georgia and Texas found significant correlations between the number of years of instrumental music instruction and academic achievement in math science and language arts. University of Sarasota Study Jeffrey Lynn Kluball; East Texas State University Study Daryl Erick Trent
Jazz
This site explores the history of jazz and how it is intertwined with the history of America. It refers to some of the social and cultural events that impacted on jazz music from the 1800s to the 1960s and includes audio and visual recordings of different styles of jazz and musicians and allows you to play along on a virtual piano.
Journal of Film Music
The Journal of Film Music contains a number of reviews and articles related to film music. A number of these can be downloaded for free.
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
Manaakitanga - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of manaakitanga in arts classrooms. Mannaakitanga is about values of integrity trust sincerity and equity. Through manaakitanga the teacher and fellow students recognise and affirm the identity of each student in open and trusting relationships.
Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand
MAINZ is a division of Tai Poutini Polytechnic (Auckland and Christchurch) offering programmes in Audio Engineering Contemporary Music Performance Live Sound and Event Production Music Event Management and Foundation Sound and Music. Short courses in DJing Songwriting Logic Audio and professional courses for teachers are also offered across New Zealand.
Music CD Reviews
More than 5000 links plus thousands of CD reviews and recommendations.
Music Education at Questia
Research music education at the world's largest online library - Questia.
Music Education Online
This Indiana University School of Music site links to a comprehensive range of music journals and magazines newspapers and articles.
Musicals
This large site covers general history of musicals dance in musicals how to put on a musical and much more.
MusicStaff
Māori Music Library Guide
This page from Wellington City Libraries Te Matapahi Ki Te Ao Nui site presents key books recordings and links relating to Māori music.
New Zealand Music
An online community featuring profiles songs and videos from nearly every band in the country. Also latest music news and a very active forum.
New Zealand Muzic Net
A very full artist directory the latest album and singles charts new release information gig guide discussion forum and free downloads from NZ bands.
NZ Musician
Articles stories links news forums directories and general information about all genres of music in New Zealand.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Year 1-8 Music Facilities
This section of the Performing Arts Facilities in Schools website discusses equipment and spaces needed for music teaching in years 1-8. Includes a look at performance spaces facilities that make teaching music easier for generalist teachers and specialist teaching spaces.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Year 9-13 Music Facilities
This section of the Performing Arts Facilities in Schools raises some general issues related to facilities for teaching music in years 9-13. Includes lists of basic needs and advice based on the experiences of many schools particularly with regard to storage.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Years 9-13 Drama Programme Needs
This section of the Performing Facilities in Schools website looks at the needs to consider when planning facilities for secondary school drama programmes. Includes basic requirements for drama teaching and information for schools developing comprehensive drama suites.
Perspectives on Singing
This is the latest freely available refereed e-journal in Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts from UNESCO Observatory Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning The University of Melbourne (ISSN 1835 - 2776). There are fourteen papers that consider the socialcultural pedagogical musical practices and health aspects of singing.
Promethean Editions
Visit this website to read up-to-date information on selected contemporary composers from New Zealand the United Kingdom and Australia. Read recent biographical notes and a current list of works and selected performance highlights.
Questioning the Music Education Paradigm
Questioning the Music Education Paradigm is Volume 2 in the Biennial Series. An international cast of twenty three contributors turns a critical lens on the dominant music education paradigm to examine how we teach and what we teach. Edited by Lee Bartel ISBN: 0-920630-90-1
Research Studies in Music Education
A refereed journal fostering music education research internationally - published by the Callaway International Resource Centre for Music & Music Education Australia.
Robots with "Soul"
Can robots and humans interact the way that human beings interact with each other?
Slow Pedagogy: A Dangerous but Powerful Idea - Counter Acceleration and Speed with Slowness and Wholeness (PDF 561KB)
This 2008 paper by Project Vision discusses a new vision for education in the 21st century. It considers current initiatives in India aimed at integrating new technologies changed classroom environments and a range of school structures to enable new practices to develop in an invisible and contextual manner so that they work slowly and with great finesse to create an unquiet and critical pedagogy - one where new media arts can sustain social change.
Songwriter 101
Songwriter101.com contains everything about the business side of the songwriter's profession - information education and the accumulated experience of music business professionals.
Songwriting Tips and Tools - The Muse's Muse
All you have ever wanted to know about songwriting in one place. The Muse's News is worth subscribing to as a free monthly newsletter for songwriters with exclusive articles copyright and publishing advice music website and book reviews contests and market information.
Sound of Music Returning to Schools in California (Word 26.5KB)
Music and art classes are returning to Californian schools. After the demise of the arts in American education a restoration is now in progress. The new state budget gives schools more than half a billion dollars this year toward restoring once-abundant courses in painting and ceramics chorus and band orchestra and drama -- and the experts needed to teach them. The article provides details of the community lobbying process against state-imposed cut-backs.
SOUNZ - The Centre for New Zealand Music
Created in New Zealand heard around the world. SOUNZ the Centre for New Zealand Music is a music information centre promoting the music of New Zealand. SOUNZ has the largest and most accessible collection of New Zealand music in the world which is now online. SOUNZ provides a range of services projects and activities including music teaching resources such as the SOUNZwrite guides for NCEA and Ears Wide Open for upper primary and junior secondary.
SOUNZ Community
For all those who make NZ music ‘happen’ there is a special area on this website which allows composers and contributors to share new works products and events. It also allows contributors to update their profiles and contact details online. To access this part of the site a user name and login are required.
SOUNZ Resources
SOUNZ offers secure e-commerce from this site allowing the purchase of musical scores recordings and publications that are available from the Centre. As well as selling many unpublished works by NZ composers through licence SOUNZ endeavours to stock all publications – cds scores music resources and books – that relate to their music.
Success for Boys
This New Zealand Ministry of Education website is intended to help teachers build on existing practice to create opportunities for all boys to succeed.
Synthtopia
This site contains articles on Computer Music links to audio interfaces computer hardware MIDI controllers and MIDI interfaces samples loops software effects and audio processors software sequencers and software synthesizers and samplers. There is also information on electronic music and recording gear free music interviews iPods and portable media players music news and reviews.
The Art of the Matter: the development and extensions of ways of knowing in the Arts (PDF 70KB)
This downloadable paper (99 pages pdf) by researchers at the University of Waikato investigates how the development of ideas in the Arts can be promoted enhanced and refined in classrooms and in so doing build knowledge related to Arts educational pedagogy research and philosophy.
The Big Idea
This site carries information on the New Zealand creative sector jobs commissions auditions and professional development opportunities. Professional awards and competitions and intern-ship opportunities are listed. A weekly creative sector magazine is provided with local and international content. There is a place for forums a marketplace and on-line opinion polls. A feature aspect is the profiling of individuals and organisations and their work. The Big Idea is the connects the NZ creative sector with the world. Services are currently entirely free to subscribers.
The Case for Music in Schools
Music majors are the most likely group of college grads to be admitted to medical school. Physician and biologist Lewis Thomas studied the undergraduate majors of medical school applicants. He found that 66 percent of music majors who applied to med school were admitted the highest percentage of any group. Peter H. Wood ERIC Document No. ED327480 "The Case for Music in the Schools" Phi Delta Kappan February 1994
The Lament Project
The Centre for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts announces the release of its new online sound/art collaboration called ‘The Lament Project' as part of the 2008 release of Viralnet.net the Centre's online journal and project space.
Theatrical Resources: Music Theatre International
This site provides resources to go with many of the most well-known shows like Fame Annie and Fiddler on the Roof. The study guides explore issues that are pertinent to the era and themes of the shows. A great resource for teachers who want to use the school show as an assessment tool.
Tino rangatiratanga - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of tino rangatiratanga in arts classrooms. Tino rangatiratanga is the principle of relative autonomy – the goal is to gain relative control over one's own life and cultural well-being.
Traditional Māori Music - Musical Instruments
An audio clip and a selection of images mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries depicting a number of traditional Maori musical instruments. Images also include groups of women involved in stick games and poi dances. From the Discover Te Kohinga Taonga collection of the National Library of New Zealand.
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners is a new resource explaining the progression of the competencies teachers need to develop so they can help Māori learners achieve educationally as Māori. Tātaiako has been developed to help all educators think about what it takes to successfully teach Māori learners. It provides a guide to the development of cultural competence for teachers themselves for their employers and for Initial Teacher Education providers and providers of on-going teacher professional development.
Waiata
A selection of images from the 19th and early 20th centuries depicting the singing of waiata and performance of poi dances. It includes several photos of performers welcoming home the Māori Batallion after World War II. From the Discover Te Kohinga Taonga collection of the National Library of New Zealand.
Western Social Dance
This site is for teacher reference. It gives instructions and clips on a variety of historical western social dances from the late middle ages through to the beginning of the twentieth century. It includes dances such as the Galliard and the Pavane. It would be useful for dance teachers music teachers and for drama teachers who want to include dance in period productions.
Why is Teaching Composing so Challenging? (PDF 125KB) (124.24 kB)
A survey of classroom observation and teachers’ opinions by Rebecca Berkley. The article answers three questions related to composition learning in relation to GCSE - can all GCSE students compose; how do you teach composing at GCSE; and is the GCSE course a good test of composing ability?
Why Music is an Essential Liberal Art
Why should young people study music? This article considers the central place in the lives of young people. It discusses the central role of teaching to give them an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the natural world - and of our connection to it - by becoming more aware of the mathematical order that underlies music.
Why Music? (PDF 185KB) (184.34 kB)
This research project was carried out in 2007 by Karen Carter MENZA liaison coordinator. The project provides a snapshot of student views about the place of music in their lives and makes this information available to music educators.
Yantra for Mahana (PDF 391KB) (390.22 kB)
Yantra for Mahana 2006 by Marte Szirmay is a massive iron sculpture erected at the entrance of the Woollaston Estates art landscape in Nelson late in 2006. This downloadable pdf includes an explanatory artist’s statement and a range of photos detailing the work’s erection and various views of the sculpture in situ (kindly provided by courtesy of the artist).
Your Brain and Musical Improvisation
In this TED Talks video musician and researcher Charles Limb considers how the brain works during musical improvisation so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
General
Are you a Visual thinker?
Changing Assessment : How four simple words can solve education’s biggest problem
A TED talk by Mark Barnes discussing approaches to assessment and how to include the student voice in a ‘beautiful conversation’.
Do you have a wandering mind?
How Colour Blindness Might Affect an Art Student
New Zealanders and the arts 2014 - Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2014
Creative New Zealand have recently published their findings after a three-year study looking at our attendance, attitudes and participation in the Arts. This three-yearly research began in 2005 and was repeated in 2008, 2011 and 2014. It delivers on-going information to the arts sector about New Zealanders’ level of involvement in, and attitudes towards, the arts.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Minute Wellbeing Plan
Devised for 'guilty teachers' to manage work/life balance.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Miunute Workload Plan
Visual Thinking Improves Writing
Encouraging writing through 'life journals' comic strips and drawing.
Why do we keep creative people out of leadership roles?
Creatives as leaders - short article by David Burkus.
Why Med Schools are Requiring Art Classes
An article about the relationship between the arts, clinical observation and maintaining empathy in the medical profession.