20 – 21 November, 2015
3.00 am – 5.00 am
PIERCE - The American College of Greece - Gravias 6, 15342, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
The American College of Greece, the laboratory “Research in Practical and Applied Philosophy” (L.R.P.A.Ph.) of the University of the Aegean, the music faculties of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers (G.A.P.M.E.T) will host a conference on strategies and didactic methodologies for improving teaching practices in school subjects integrating arts in November 2015, at PIERCE - The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together education and arts education professionals worldwide to share the latest research and practice. We invite primary and secondary school educators, higher education professionals and education researchers, national, state and local education officials from across the world to join us in Athens.
The Focus of the Conference
Didactics, competences and attitudes of learning and development from infancy to early adulthood is vitally important to educators and researchers. Furthermore, the education profession worldwide is facing increased expectations for accountability towards learning in music and other arts. The key questions of the conference focus on three areas:
Strand 1: Didactics
The effective and efficient practice of arts teaching and development continues to be a vital need across the world. We are seeking submissions that present best practices that allow for the valid, reliable methodology of student learning and development in arts, the collection and organization of this data, its use in assessing development, and its use in the improvement of teaching and learning at the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The submissions for the practice strand should address these and other elements of teaching practice. The guiding questions for the Didactics strand are:
1. What models, designs, and practices are most successful in teaching development, arts development, student achievement and skills in diverse educational systems?
2. In what ways are educators using practice data effectively to improve teaching and learning?
Strand 2: Competencies
This area explores teaching and teacher development not only as matters of personal disposition or commitment, as psychological qualities that emerge among individuals, but also as social and political phenomena that are shaped by how the work of teaching is organized, structured and led. The submissions will be structured on a conceptual framework of interrelated elements that are informed by sociological and social‐psychological literature, in order to cast light in teachers’ work and professional competencies. The area also includes implications and recommendations for leaders and policymakers to embrace and engage competencies as part of their own and other educators’ work. The submissions for the competence strand should address these and other important measurement issues especially for arts education. The general framework regarding teacher competencies will be focused on field competencies such as:
• research competencies,
• curriculum competencies,
• lifelong learning competencies,
• social-cultural competencies,
• emotional competencies,
• communication competencies,
• information and communication technologies competencies (ICT) and
• environmental competencies.
Teachers’ competencies affect their values, behaviors, communication, aims and practices in school and also they support professional development and curricular studies. Thus, the discussion on teachers’ competencies to improve the teaching-learning process in school is of great importance.
Strand 3: Attitudes
Strategies to improve teaching have been influenced by the prevailing theories of learning and research on instruction. Research on these strategies suggests that workshops and students' ratings of instruction, coupled with consultation and intensive fellowships, are effective strategies for changing teachers' attitudes. Furthermore, student arts learning has always been a vital component of the development process. The collection, analysis, review and interpretation of student data for use in the improvement of teaching and learning are expectations for a growing number of educators across the world at all levels. Recent changes in policy and law in some nations have brought arts effectiveness to a new level of examination and scrutiny.
The submissions for the attitudes strand should address the following guiding questions:
1. In what ways are educators evaluating arts for the improvement of teaching, learning, and programs?
2. What unforeseen and unplanned outcomes of teaching models have been observed (hidden curriculum)?
3. To what extent is teaching practice used in educational philosophy?
4. In what ways might moral leadership create a new leadership practice - based on purpose, values, and beliefs - can transform a school from an organization to a community?
5. What about development? Based on:
• Professional development (faculty members should be oriented to their various faculty roles);
• Instructional development (access to teaching-improvement workshops, peer coaching, mentoring, and/or consultations);
• Leadership development (effective leaders and well-designed curricula);
• Organizational development (empowering faculty members to excel in their roles as educators requires organizational policies and procedures that encourage and reward teaching and continual learning).
Submission Deadline for full papers: Proposals for Research and Poster Papers, Workshops, Tutorials, Invited Sessions, Mini-Symposia and Special Sessions: October 29th, 2015 November 5th, 2015
Author notification: November 6th, 2015 November 10th, 2015
Download the templates for full oral and poster presentations:
You can submit your paper in edudidactics2015@gmail.com with the identification:EduDidactics 2015_Paper/Poster_Surname
(for example: EduDidactics 2015_Paper_Nelson Br.)
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in related special issues of the Hellenic Journal of Music, Education and Culture (http://hejmec.eu/journal/index.php/HeJMEC)
Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Professor of Music and Acoustics, Information Technology, Department of Music - Faculty of Philosophy, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Dean of International Scientific Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy
Lecturer in Music Education, Research Officer, Department of Culture, Communication and Media, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Lecturer in Primary Education, Department of Learning and Leadership UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Deputy Dean, Associate Professor, Music Education, School of Arts & Education Sciences, European University Cyprus
Music therapist PhD, MA-CMT, DMS Lecturer, Aristotle University, Τhessaloniki, Greece
Chair of Music Pedagogy, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Teacher Education, Campus Brugg-Windisch
Senior-Track Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Social Services, Senior Lecturer, music and early childhood education, Finland
Associate Professor PhD., “Lucian Blaga“ University in Sibiu, Faculty of Socio-Humanities Sciences, Department of Journalism, Public Relations, Sociology and Psychology, Romania
Session I (With adults)
Something in it: Working with books in classroom
Initiator: Prof. Elena K. Theodoropoulou
Interlocutors: Maria Dendi/B.Ed., Mary Koutsopoulou/B.Ed., Fanis Laliotis, Mania Monioudi/PhD stud., Iakinthi Papaïoannou/PhD stud., Mary Voukanou/Dr.
Session II (With children)
Thoughts, Talks, Discussions
Facilitators: Dr. Sophia NIkolidaki & Prof. Elena K. Theodoropoulou
Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Oral Presentation and workshop with the participation of students
A music workshop full of activities that will try to cover the 5 axis of music: Art - Education - Occupation - Entertainment - Therapy
Chairperson
Elena Theodoropoulou, Professor, Department of Sciences of Preschool Education and Educational Design, University of the Aegean
International Scientific Committee
Rose Vogel, Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Goethe University, Frankfurt – Germany
Maria Spychiger, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK), Frankfurt - Germany
Laia Viladot Vallverdú, Senior-Track Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal
Slavka Kopcakova, University of Prešov, Slovakia
Raluca Sassu, University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu (ULBS), Romania
Kaarina Marjanen, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Social Services, Senior Lecturer, music and early childhood education, Finland
Scientific Committee
Maria Kaila, Professor, Department of Sciences of Preschool Education and Educational Design, University of the Aegean
Smaragda Chrysostomou, Associate Professor, Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Maria Moskofoglou-Chionidou, Associate Professor, Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean
Nikolaos Zafranas, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Music Department, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Katerina Kasimati, Assistant Professor, Department, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education
Calliope Kounenou, Assistant Professor, Department, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education
Maria Mountridou, Assistant Professor, Department, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education
Dr. Athanasios Giannikas, School Advisor of Primary Education
Dr. Dimitrios Zibidis, School Advisor of Primary Education
Dr. Zoe Krokou, School Advisor of Primary Education
Dr. George Baralos, School Advisor of Mathematics
Dr. Spyros Ferentinos, former School Advisor of Mathematics
Dr. Kostas Gavrilis, School Advisor of Mathematics
Dr. Stefanos Keisoglou, former School Advisor of Mathematics
Lela Lymperopoulou, School Advisor of Mathematics
Dr. Eleftherios Mastoridis, School Advisor of Mathematics
Dr. Afroditi Pantazi, School Advisor of Mathematics
Olga Ziro, School Advisor in Fine Arts
Dr. Maria Argiriou, Musician, Directorate of Primary Education, Piraeus
Dr. Elizabeth Perakaki, Musician, Directorate of Secondary Education, Piraeus
Dr. Maria Magaliou, Musician, Head of Cultural Affairs, Directorate of Primary Education, 3rd District of Athens
Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou-Kamini, Music Psychotherapist PhD MA-CMT, Lecturer Department of Music Studies, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Leslie Jones, Music Department Head, DEREE-The American College of Greece, Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts
Dr Angeliki Triantafyllaki, Associate Researcher, Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. Spyros Doukakis, Academic & Development Advisor, Mathematics and Computer Science, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Marios Spathis, Chairperson of Hellenic Scientific Society of Mathematics Education (EPEDIM)
Edu Didactics 2015 Conference Consultant
Vassia Comis, Executive Director, College Events - Office Human Resources and Campus Services The American College of Greece
Organizational committee
Olga E. Julius, Principal, PIERCE-The American College of Greece
John Kladas, Gymnasium Director, Mathematics, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
George Sitotis, Musician, Directorate of Primary Education, 2nd District of Athens
Maximos Vasileiou, Gymnasium Deputy Director, Geography and Technology, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Theodora Chira, Gymnasium Deputy Director, Literature, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Dr. Emmanuel Vrontakis, Lyceum Deputy Director, Mathematics, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Orestis Chatzinakis, Music, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Theodora Panagopoulou, Music, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Aggelis Triantafyllou, Physics, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou-Kamini, Music Psychotherapist PhD MA-CMT, Lecturer Department of Music Studies, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Agorakis Bompotas, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras
Charalampos Goulas, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras
European Music Portfolio – Maths: Sounding ways into Mathematics …makes innovative solutions accessible for teachers in Europe
It develops innovative and creative approaches to make the learning of mathematics (and music) more interesting, inquiry-based and engaging. This approach can have particular benefits for low achievers and students at risk. The project aims to enhance the quality and European dimension of in-service and initial teacher training courses by introducing a tested training curriculum dealing with interdisciplinary approaches to the teaching and learning of both mathematics and music.
The mission of EMP MATHS Professional Development Course is to provide teachers with opportunities for salary advancement through course work that is interesting, topical, and immediately applicable.
EMP MATHS Professional Development Course is a one day classroom course with 6 workshops for educators in primary and secondary education. Courses are provided to educators for in service advancement or recertification. Courses require classroom attendance. Students are actively involved in the course process through relevant materials, current research and professor contact. The courses will be supported through Moodle platform.
EMP MATHS course starts at 9.30 am on Saturday 21 November 2015 and ends at 6.00 p.m
Professional Development Certificate will be given by the Board of Experts of EMP MATHS Project (more: http://maths.emportfolio.eu/index.php/partners) with the credentials of EU Commission. EMP MATHS Professional Development Course is related to national curricula content and teaching strategies. The course is primarily designed for classroom teachers and school administrators and is part of the EU Commission continuing effort to provide lifelong learning opportunities for educational professionals throughout Europe. The Certificate is an acknowledgement of the extra effort to enhance the classroom learning environment and to improve professional skills and knowledge.
What you will learn
Why maths and music are so important to today’s curricula design and structure?
How to plan and organize for classroom success.
Practical skills and activities for motivating students.
Strategies for coping with team challenges.
Topics covered
Stages of math & music development .
Common team dysfunctions.
Effective communication.
Teaching strategies & techniques.
Faculty
Markus Cslovjecsek, Chair of Music Pedagogy, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Teacher Education, Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland
Jo Saunders, Lecturer in Music Education, Research Officer, Department of Culture, Communication and Media, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Caroline Hilton, Lecturer in Primary Education, Department of Learning and Leadership UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Laia Viladot Vallverdú, Senior-Track Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, Catalonia
Argyriou M., Geralis – Moschou K., Magaliou M., Perakaki E., Sitotis G.: Expert Greek team, GAPMET
Chatzinakis O., Doukakis S., Kladas J., Panagopoulou T., Triantafyllou A, Vrontakis E.: Expert Greek team, PIERCE - The American College of Greece
Course fee: 30 euro (workshops, educational material, conference bag).
Official language: En & El
Target group: musicians, mathematicians, college students, educators, researchers.
Contact: If you have further questions or wish to register by phone, please call us at: 0030.6979.34.24.01 or contact us in gr.primarymusic@gmail.com
The American College of Greece, the Laboratory of Research on Practical and Applied Philosophy of the School of Humanities (University of the Aegean, Department of Pre-school Education Sciences and Educational Design), the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers (G.A.P.M.E.T.) organize an open students’ conference within the frame of the 6th International Conference EduDidactics 2015 on strategies and didactic methodologies for improving teaching practices in school subjects integrating arts. The theme of the students’ conference is: “We gain inspiration, we learn and create through the Arts”.
The main aims of the conference are:
• The reinforcement of interdisciplinary approaches through the arts in the frame of school subjects and school activities.
• The enhancement of good practices in integrating the arts with academic subjects and the dissemination of their results in the scientific and educational community.
• The encouragement of students’ initiative.
• The fruitful interaction between scientists, teachers and students.
• The connection between educational research and school reality.
Students can present their projects in one of the following formats:
• Oral presentations
• Presentations of websites, blogs, etc. created in the frame of an interdisciplinary approach through the arts
• Presentation of educational material created by the students in printed or digital form (e.g. school newspaper, scrapbook, etc.)
• Presentation of digital games, smart devices applications or other digital educational material created by the students
• Short film created by the students
The projects must be presented by students themselves. Presentations should not exceed 10 minutes.
Download the Conference Program by clicking on the following link:
Deposit to GAPMET's bank account in Pireaus Bank:
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The registration fee includes:
EduDidactics is held on grounds of PIERCE - The American College of Greece. More - Virtual Tour
Founded in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1875, by missionaries from Boston, Massachusetts, The American College of Greece is the oldest and largest US accredited college or university in Europe. For over 140 years, ACG has been offering transformative education and cultivating a fertile intellectual and cultural collaboration between Greece and the United States. ACG is an independent, not for profit, nonsectarian, co-educational academic institution. Video history
| Hotel | Website | Distance form the conference location |
| Park Hotel, 2 stars | http://www.theparkhotel.gr/en/ | 15΄walk to the conference venue |
| Hotel Civitel Olympic, 4 stars | http://www.civitel.gr | 10΄by car to the conference venue |
| Herodion Hotel, 4 stars | http://www.herodion.gr/ | 20΄ by car to the conference venue |
| Piraeus Port Hotel, 3 stars | http://www.piraeusporthotel.com/ | 30΄ by car to the conference venue |
Other accommodation possibilities may be found via booking, trivago and other travel services.
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