Creating connections through music at the global world, 5 cr

The course framework is created of approaches to explore and define music as a life-long human phenomenon despite of the culture in question. Music is comprehended as a ground for education and wellbeing. Music is being observed as interaction, and as a ground for education, wellbeing, and life-long learning. During the course, aspects and observations for music and music integration are created, grounded on research-based learning tasks, supporting the learner to construct a value-based teaching orientation. Reflections of musical communication will foster the benefitting of music pedagogical models towards the working life practices.

The course main themes:

- Music and multisensory experiences as lifelong meanings; The Multisensory Musical Design (MMD) (Dr. Kaarina Marjanen, Tampere University)

- Dialogical-Integrative methodological models in co-operational learning and teaching of music and arts; Music and life (visiting lecturer, Prof. Hubert Gruber, Austria)

 -Music integration and the various roles of music in education (visiting lecturer, Dr. Carlos Lage-Gómez, Spain)

- Creativity in music and arts as encounterings within the connected world (visiting lecturer, associate professor Sabine Chatelain, Switzerland)