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SUMMARY:Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Promo
 ting Pedagogic Change and Cultivating Imagination: Demonstrating how Media
 ted Learning Environments Support Student Engagement in the Music Classroo
 m - Dr Adena Portowitz\, Givat Washington Academic College\, Israel
DTSTART:20170426T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:_Mediated Learning_ is a didactic approach which nurtures qual
 ity and synchronized teacher-student interactions and stimulates meaningfu
 l learning. Three criteria define and characterize a _Mediated Learning En
 vironment_:\n\n_Focusing and Reciprocity_ – a process by which the teach
 er focuses the pupils' attention while encouraging active response. For ex
 ample\, listening and responding to music fosters a need to concentrate on
  auditory input and ‘make sense’ of it.\n\n_Expanding_ enables student
 s to think beyond the immediate.  Thus\, teachers may encourage students t
 o draw on multiple representations (kinaesthetic\, graphic representation)
  to demonstrate their understanding of musical structures and procedures.\
 n\n_Mediation of Meaning_ occurs when teachers convey respect and enthusia
 sm for unfamiliar practices and traditions\, thus promoting communication 
 skills. This session will engage students in live exercises\, demonstratin
 g the potential of _Mediated Music Learning Environments_.\n\n*Adena Porto
 witz*\, PhD\, musicologist and music educator\, senior lecturer\, founder 
 and director of the Department of Instrumental Music Education at the Giva
 t Washington Academic College in Israel.  Her research interests' focus on
  underlying mechanisms linking music education and the cognitive\, social 
 and personal development of at-risk children and interconnections between 
 expression\, as manifested in musical topoi\, and formal structures in ton
 al music. The results of her research appear in leading international publ
 ications\, including the _Journal of Musicology\, The Symphonic Repertoire
 \, Vol. I: The 18th Century Symphony\, Research Studies in Music Education
 _\, and the _International Journal of Music Education_. Since 2002\, she h
 as served as editor of _MinAd: Israel Studies in Musicology Online_.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS3
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