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SUMMARY:Questioning the relationship between Music and social inclusion: a
  crucial issue - Dr. Graça Mota\, College of Education\, Polytechnic Inst
 itute Porto
DTSTART:20151118T170000Z
DTEND:20151118T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:The claim for the benefits of engagement in musical activities
  has been documented through a growing literature that seeks to bring evid
 ence on other-than-musical gains from children and young people participat
 ion in activities involving singing and ensemble playing. Further research
  has been suggesting that the possibility of acting musically in synchrony
  with others may be responsible for increasing cooperation and creating so
 cial attachment among groups that tend to live in exclusion and social dis
 engagement. This presentation will discuss these crucial issues in connect
 ion with results from a large scale study done in Portugal with the projec
 t Orquestra Geração\, a programme inspired by El Sistema within a perspe
 ctive of social inclusion through musical practice\, primarily directed at
  children and adolescents of greater educational and social vulnerability.
 \n\n*Bio\n\nGraça Mota* (pianist\, Master in Music Education\, Boston Uni
 versity\, USA\, PhD in Psychology of Music\, University of Keel\, UK) has 
 been for more than 25 years engaged in music teacher’s education at the 
 Music Department of the College of Education in the Polytechnic Institute 
 in Porto\, Portugal. Currently\, she is Director of the CIPEM (Research Ce
 nter in Psychology of Music and Music Education). Her present research is 
 concerned with collaborative practices in the arts\, musical practice and 
 social inclusion\, music in prisons\, and has been published in Portugal\,
  Spain\, US\, UK\, Latvia and Brazil. She is currently an elected Board me
 mber of the International Society for Music Education for the biennium 201
 4–2016. \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 2S7
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