Conveners
SESSION 2: Arts & Technology
- Chronis Kynigos (NKUA)
SESSION 2: Arts & Interdisciplinarity
- Tassos Kolydas (NKUA)
SESSION 2: Theatre/Arts & Well Being
- Gina Kalogirou (NKUA)
SESSION 2: Workshops
- There are no conveners in this block
SESSION 2: Art, culture & society
- Konstantina Tsoli (NKUA)
SESSION 2: Wellbeing, Music, Dance
- Georgios Fountzoulas (NKUA)
SESSION 2: Audiovisual Arts (Panel & Papers)
- Titika Dimitroulia (NKUA)
In this research paper, we discuss how studentsโ engagement in a specially-designed learning environment, that combines mathematics and music through digital resources, can provoke aesthetic experiences and shape their mathematics learning. Eighteen 11th grade students participated in an activity for creating digitally animated figures moving through periodic functions, tuned and matched to...
The panel attempts to answer questions about courses on Audiovisual arts and audiovisual studies within or beyond the school curricula. In such courses, pupils and students have the opportunity to watch and discuss about films, share their views and create audiovisual works. They deal with film language and embrace critical pedagogy approaches. They collaborate as film crew and research...
The aim of this paper is to examine the benefits of drama-based interventions to promote the well-being of individuals in prison. Connecting with others, physical activation, focus, learning, sharing, which are key components of well-being, are addressed in drama-based interventions. The paper concerns anecdotal evidence from a series of courses developed at the Department of Theater Studies...
This LivePBL CPD Workshop at Capital Normal University, Beijing, demonstrates a unique blend of global insight with local application in education, emphasising music and art. The workshop initially responded to educational challenges, fostering a collaborative, cross-cultural ethos aligned with SDG4 goals. Recognised by international awards, it promotes Project-Based Learning (PBL) to enhance...
Arts engagement may be associated with cognitive outcomes of developmental importance, yet evidence from population-based, representative sources is scarce. This study employed population-based educational records from all students enrolled in public secondary schools in British Columbia, Canada, who either took no school arts or any of four school arts subjects, to examine predictive...
In the big urban centers, like Athens it is observed the creation of cultural associations One such association is the Cultural Association in Leros, Peiraeus, Athens, where I am a dance teacher there since 2007. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role and the function of the fieldwork research on helping me to teach and dance better the dances from Leros. The collection of the data was...
The paper presents a qualitative research study that focuses on the application of augmented reality in art education and its potential to enhance studentsโ engagement, their learning and interpreting skills as well as their expressivity and creativity. Given the immersive nature of the experiences augmented reality affords, it can contribute to the development of studentsโ art appreciation...
During the last decade, many music groups of Greece have adopted goals consistent with the principles of Community Music, like the promotion of membersโ interaction and well-being. This study explores the case of instrumental community ensembles concentrating on traditional music, a trend which emerged mainly after COVID-19 pandemic. These ensembles consist of amateur musicians playing โor...
This presentation focuses on pedagogical strategies to promote diversity given that critical race theory (CRT) is being used to prohibit its promotion. CRT is about civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine racism embedded in US economic, political, and social institutions that lead to inequality and injustice for people of Color. While this theory is not taught in K-12 schools,...
The main topic of the presented project is research on the educational potential of the collection of modern and contemporary art as a potential source of study and cognition for the educational field of Mathematics and its applications in art museum education. Specifically, the reported part of the research focuses on the medium of printmaking, in the sense of classical printmaking and its...
The study is part of the research project "Promoting innovative learning environments in teaching and learning for engineering students on green transition topics", which is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union -NextGenerationEU. Ninety engineering students from the University of Ljubljana (from the Faculty of...
This paper presentation explores two research projects focusing on the potential and challenges for increased collaborations between arts/creative professionals and other sectors, and the research and education needed to support these aims. The first presented arts and entrepreneurship education development project aimed at identifying networks and stakeholders; understanding gaps in...
Historically linked, music and literature are two areas that explore interconnected dimensions of sound. This communication consists of articulating and exploring the relationship between sound and words to enhance the perception and interpretation of one and the other in an interdisciplinary way. In this sense, a reflection is presented on the implementation of a set of artistic activities...
This paper introduces the Inquiry and Performance Learning Model (IPLM), an educational approach combining social constructivism, dialogical pedagogy, and Theater in Education. Inspired by Vygotsky's constructivism, IPLM employs collaborative learning and live performance, immersing students in profound philosophical inquiries within ancient Greek tragedy. Addressing these questions deepens...
The proposed paper critically analyses the learning processes that were taken in ฮฑ drama/theatre education University course addressing to future teachers in order to propose a holistic transformational education, which can inspire positive social change towards a more just and democratic world. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Dewey's educational philosophy and its democratic...
The study aims at investigating if the music curriculum guidelines affect studentsโ learning achievements. The researcher analyzed and compared the guidelines among the three regions in China, providing insights into educational policies and practices variations. The study was grounded in the Curriculum Theory, which explores the philosophies, ideologies, and models guiding curriculum design...
As part of the Erasmus+ program, we designed and developed activities and materials, attempting to connect the arts, nature, technology and education. Students and teachers, collaborated experientially based on Arts and Cultural heritage and created communication bridges between students and teachers from five different countries, and different educational systems. In our presentation we will...
The workshop is designed for individuals, regardless of whether they have disabilities or not, who have an interest in delving into the realms of theatre, dance and music, through the Improvisation Technique. The main goals of the workshop include guiding participants to explore the expressive possibilities of the body in dance, with or without music, and understanding the role of internal...
Unity as the unpredictability of multiplicity. Examples of Film-documented Field Work in Performative ArtsFrom a cultural anthropological perspective, the idea of unity is a millennia-old phenomenon, for example, with cultures living close to nature, often based on holistic world views. In some Western traditions of thought, various cultural and artistic currents have tried to recapture an...
Contemporary art education based on four important knowledge aspects which representing in its entirety the pillars or foundations that determine the trends of art education in any society, and even the cultural features are formed through it. Perhaps one of the most important foundations is the interactive relationship between art education and society, which in turn represents the center of...
The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic had a strong impact on undergraduate studentsโacademic life. The pandemic crisis created an unprecedented condition that causedadditional challenges to studentsโ wellbeing. In response to the increased needs of studentsโand the wider community of the university during the crisis, the authors, in their capacity aslecturers at the Department of Music Studies,...
This paper examines the correlation between the EUโs eight key competences for lifelong learning, โCultural awareness and expression competenceโ, and the arts education curriculum. We determine whether this competence is reflected at the programmatic level of education, and if there are any differences in its implementation across Member States of the EU. In the present paper, we focus on the...
Recent global conflicts and humanitarian crises have intensified polarization and xenophobia globally, permeating academic institutions and affecting students' lives, urging educators to confront these issues. In this paper, we examine the scientific perspectives of peace and conflict from peace studies. We focus on Galtung's theories for understanding violence and conflict prevention and...
This paper presents the content and evaluation of the educational programme Inclusion in Action, which was implemented during the school years 2022-23 and 2023-24, in mainstream and special education schools. The evaluation of the pilot educational programme was mainly based on observation and carried out during the two phases of the programme (a. preparation in the classroom and b. screening...
This is a presentation of my PhD research project on what it feels like to do care as a teacher. Coming from the perspective of a teacher and artist, the research proposes an intimately artistic way to examine the nuanced experience of performing care in teaching. It does so through the medium of a performance framework, through performance art and participatory performance. It thus...
The purpose of this paper presentation is to share results from a Canadian critical participatory action research (CPAR) study to design and transform Grades 1 to 12 learning spaces using an interconnected pedagogy of arts-based multiliteracies. Study participants deeply engaged with and explored arts-based interdisciplinary themes of nature, sustainability, technology, environmental...
This paper aims to explore the relationship between mind and body and itโ s involvement in modern educational techniques in Secondary Education. We will analyze the indirect learning that occurs during experiential techniques, like theatrical and creative writing techniques. This paper is the result of an on-going research for my doctoral thesis based on a hybrid creative writing workshop...
This study centers on a recently concluded student organization-led song production project of tertiary level music education students that aims to develop audio-visual materials about sustainable development goals with and for members of an early childhood care and development (shortened as ECCD) center community. The main data sources of the study are narratives of the early childhood music...
Childrenโs well-being has been shown to be positively influenced by their contacts with Nature and their engagement with expressive media such as music, movement, and speech. The aim of this study was to develop an experiential psychoeducational program which promotes childrenโs resilience and is applied in Nature with the Orff music and movement approach. Participants were students of the...
