4 research outputs found
What's In A Song? Exploring the Analytical-Creative Learning Process in Indigenous Kenyan Children's Songs
No full textPast research on indigenous Kenyan children's songs focused on content and its usage for music and cultural education (Akuno, 1997; Andang'o, 2009). These songs were found to be a rich source of information for the acquisition of music knowledge and development of skills, proving to be useful material for multi-cultural education. They were particularly found to be useful in enhancing learning in environments with learners of mixed-cultures. Following the development of the Rhythm-Interval Approach (Akuno, 1997) for teaching music to 6 - 8 year old children, and a workshop presentation of the approach with one of these songs at an international music education conference (29th ISME World Conference, Beijing, 2010), this article explores the analytical-creative learning process inherent in these songs. The article reports the workshop activities, the response of the workshop participants and lessons learnt by the author. It sums up the learning experiences as participatory, inclusive and progressive (PIP), notions derived from call-and-response processes pertinent to the performance practice of indigenous Kenyan children's songs. This culminates in the interrogation of the analytical-creative learning process as an avenue for musical development through the songs
I call it music. Validating diverse music expressions in the classroom in Kenya
No full textThe author from Kenya highlights the importance of music in students’ lives by describing young Kenyans participating in talent shows or performing popular music in the tradition of zilizopendwa at the Kenya Music Festival. She argues that these diverse music expressions should be validated in the classroom – especially in cultural settings where music plays a central role in community life. This article is part of the anthology European Perspectives on Music Education, Volume 11, which focusses on music practices in the classroom, diversity in music making, learning and teaching and praxeological perspectives on music education. (DIPF/Orig.
Genre Analysis of Move Structures in Job Interviews by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya in 2011
No full textMany scholars have carried out research on genre analysis (Swales, 1990, Bhatia,1993, Bruce, 1993), Flowerdew, 2002, Fairclough,, 2006, and others) and their findings have opened many avenues for research and analysis of many genres. However, much of their studies have scarcely attempted to analyze move structures of job interviews conducted by a judicial commission in any country. A literature gap therefore exists, thus motivating the authors to analyze the move structures of JSC’s interviews using Genre analysis theory. A genre analysis involves a survey of certain aspects, including : the identification of communication purposes and overall schematic structure of the target text, the analysis of lexico-grammatical features which involves quantitative corpus studies, the analysis of text patterning, which includes the analysis of conventionalized patterns of language use at lexical, syntactic and discourse levels and lastly, the analysis of content-based organization, conventionally described as substance specific moves (Swales, 1990). A move is a unit that incorporates both purposes and content that the writer intentionally communicates to the reader (Bhatia, 1993). The present study aimed at investigating how the move structures of job interviews conducted by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya in 2011 correspond to the interview process models as designed by Huffcut & Roth (1998), Adelsward (1998) and other scholars. Through a genre analysis of interviews texts extracted from the interviews conducted by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya, the present study is aimed at exploring the moves employed in the interviews for certain communicative purposes. The results of the study indicate that the JSC interviews make use of certain moves that are usually textually realized through certain linguistic forms. The study has identified some linguistic realizations that are used to develop the moves of job interviews and it has attempted to offer solution to some language challenges that emerge in the process of using language as a tool to address some problems in our society. Keywords: Genre analysis, communication purposes, interviews, overall schematic structure, lexico-grammatical features
