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The Pioneers of Soundscape in Finnish Music Education: Listening to Liisa Tenkku and Ellen Urho
No full textThe history of soundscape education in Finland may be traced to the early 1960s and the pioneering work of Liisa Tenkku and Ellen Urho. These two pioneers, introduced in this paper, brought new and refreshing winds to the field of music education, from research in music education, psychology and the modern music of their time.
In the autumn of 1963 at Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu (the Helsinki Finnish Co-Educational School), Tenkku ́s original intention was to only prepare her pupils for listening to contemporary music. At the same time, she happened to include nearly all of the most essential working methods and ideas: sound games, movement, recording the performance and a graphic score – which was later refined with Ellen Urho. These lessons may be considered not only the origins of soundscape teach- ing in Finnish schools, but also important for music education, more generally in Finland. Now sound itself and active listening of sounds had become, in a new way, the starting point of music teaching
Struggles and Triumphs of an Early Childhood STEM Educator:: Why Connections Matter? An Interview with Ms. Jade Leong.
Get PDFThis interview between a researcher (Poh) and an early childhood educator (Jade) delves into pedagogical approaches to teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in an early childhood classroom setting, focusing on children aged 1 to 5 years. Jade's journey of understanding and exploring STEM teaching is a reflection of the challenges faced by many early childhood educators. The conversation highlights the significance of teacher self-efficacy and experience, as studies show that higher training in STEM results in higher confidence, leading to higher rates of implementation in the classroom. However, research indicates that early childhood educators often lack in-depth professional preparation in math and science, resulting in insufficient content knowledge and a lack of confidence to provide quality STEM experiences for young learners.
The researcher, being a scientist and science educator, provides support to Jade's efforts in integrating STEM into her practices. Additionally, collaboration with the community, including volunteers from a science museum and the university, plays a crucial role in bolstering her confidence in engaging with STEM subjects.
This interview sheds light on the importance of continuous professional development and support for early childhood educators to effectively implement STEM teaching strategies. By sharing her reflections and experiences, Jade contributes to the development and implementation of integrated pedagogies that bridge the gap between technology, pedagogy, and content. Overall, this interview showcases the transformative impact of collaborative efforts and support systems in empowering early childhood educators to confidently and effectively engage young learners in STEM education
Sub_Merge
Get PDFThis work takes as its starting point recorded sounds and measurements of water from North America, the Arctic, and Antarctica. Using field recordings, data measurements, and multiple temporalities as a factor for composition, we decode the recordings and measurements to make audible the various forms of ecological memory and story held within water. These include water quality data, sea-ice thickness, glacial weather data, and recordings made underwater and on the land.
Sub_Merge is a space and time for active listening consistent with a meditative practice, a mediation on the collective experiences possible within water. The embedded performance creates a boundary for shared listening, while the 6-channel installation is amorphous, unfolding over the 12-hour installation - a timescale allowing for engaged listener participation.
Sub_Merge is a speculative soundscape for listeners to emerge with stories and new understandings of water in all its myriad forms. It creates a new collective listening experience built from an historical record of water’s Listening Pasts, and new knowledge for Listening Futures, from the memories held within water. 
Forest Listening – An audio-visual installation
Get PDF‘Forest Listening’ is an artwork that combines the field recording ‘Rainstorm Inside Forest Earth’ with its corresponding sound visualisation. The visualisation is a diagrammatical investigation that expands the form and function of the spectrogram from the explanatory to the exploratory. This expansion occurs in three ways: translation of the format from digital to analogue; the creation of four diagrams depicting separate levels of volume dynamics; and remaking those four diagrams as cyanotype prints using tonal shades to represent volume dynamics. The field recording ‘Rainstorm Inside Forest Earth’ is combined with hanging canvas banners, made from the cyanotype prints, to create the multimodal installation ‘Forest Listening’. Analysis of exhibiting ‘Forest Listening’ in the Limnerslease woodland at the Watts Artist Gallery & Artist Village, Surrey, UK, suggests that the woodland setting augments the multimodal listening experience, drawing attention to both the artwork and the forest itself
Soundwalking in Games
Get PDFThis paper argues for a practice of soundwalking in games as a form of virtual place-making and as a method for examining how sound design in games constructs particular values, realities, and attitudes to listening. Several case studies are discussed including Fortnite, Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Season
You Never Soundwalk Alone: Transversal and Transformative Potentials of Soundwalking
Get PDFThis presentation concerns my three year postdoctoral research into soundwalking. In my study, I approach the practice in question from the perspective of media arts, environmental humanities and philosophy of technology, putting particular emphasis on its transversal and transformative dimension. It is transversal, because despite its immediacy and situatedness soundwalking always spans broader temporalities, agencies, and locations. It is transformative, because it leaves marks, affects perception and reveals one's positionality within the surrounding environment while shedding light on their privileges and responsibilities. As part of the presentation, I introduce a written narrative from the “Lake that Glimmers like Fire,” one of several soundwalk compositions I have developed as part of my practice-led postdoctoral research
Transgressing White Supremacy Culture in Education: A Lakota Baha'i Approach
Get PDFDespite the promising incorporation of decolonization and anti-racism themes present in the provincial curriculum, public schools in British Columbia struggle to produce a racially equitable reality for students and staff. Consuming workshops and trainings have a limited effect if educators do not eventually produce anti-racism and decolonization initiatives and learning environments through their praxis. Using my own research methodology that is grounded in teachings from the Lakota medicine wheel, I will explore how relationality, kinship and critical consciousness can disrupt emerging and fluctuating iterations of white supremacy culture within secondary schools. Sacred moments of learning between myself and students will be relived, reviewed and reflected upon to gain greater insight. Memories and imagined conversations with my late father, who was himself a teacher and school administrator, will provide a strong connection to the spirit world. This methodology will allow me to witness and express white behaviors and attitudes as an observer within the educational setting. To an extent I am researching our white relatives. The task requires a good intention and a good heart. I will rely heavily on my theoretical framework to guide my steps. The Lakota medicine wheel teachings, the Ruhi education model developed through the global Baha’i community, and the transformative education practices of Paulo Freire and Bell Hooks act as the three primary posts that comprise the foundation of a tipi. Within the warmth and shelter of these three distinct paradigms, I can safely withstand the blizzard, the hostility, and rancor that lies just beyond
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No full textAnglo-Saxon Manuscripts
IN MICROFICHE FACSIMILE
Volume 11
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I:
MSS 41, 57, 191,302,303,367,383,422
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Timothy Graham, Raymond J. S. Grant, Peter J. Lucas, Elaine M. Treharne
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Tempe, Arizona
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Strategies and Counter-strategies for the Pharmaceutical and Fast-Food Industry
No full textFast-food and pharmaceutical industries oversell the usefulness of their products and underplay the health consequences of overcomsumption through various corporate strategies. Unfortunately, there are many chronic disease epidemics that stem indirectly from corporate manipulation and deceit. For instance, older age demographics rely for pharmaceutical opioids for chronic pain relief management, and racialized demographics are unevenly exposed to marketing for fast foods.