My thoughts about Education Humanities, Technology and Digital Culture. Interested on social media tools in educational contexts and
gamification in education.
La Journée Internationale du Petit Prince, ce 29 juin 2022 est l'occasion de fédérer plusieurs initiatives autour de messages d'espoir, de paix et de respect.
Cette année, Le Petit Prince en a appelé à l'imagination et à la créativité en lançant un grand Concours artistique pour petits et grands du monde entier.
Avec plus de 200 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde, Le Petit Prince est devenu un symbole d'optimisme et d'espoir pour des générations de lecteurs.
Cette journée hommage a pour vocation de promouvoir les valeurs du Petit Prince et, cette année, l'imagination et la création seront mises à l'honneur à l'occasion d'un grandconcours artistique autour du thème :
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur"
(une phrase que le renard confia au Petit Prince).
D'autres actions et évènements sont initiés pour célébrer cette JournéeInternationale:
un don de 5000 livres à des écoles et des associations : favoriser l'accès à la lecture et transmettre les valeurs d'humanisme, de bienveillance et de sauvegarde de notre planète grâce à la collectionLe Petit Prince École et Nature.
des webisodes sur les backstages de la nouvelle série d'animation : grâce aux réseaux sociaux, créer un dialogue autour des passions via les mini-témoignages de l'équipe créative travaillant sur le projet d'animation "Le Petit Prince et ses amis", dont la diffusion est prévue en 2023 sur France TV.
des produits dédiés en série limitée : la marque Les Mots Doux s'associe au Petit Prince le temps d'une collection de bracelets homemade. Des bijoux "magiques", comme des porte-bonheur, qui dévoilent un message codé en morse.
"Today, we celebrate the international art form of jazz and its power to promote dialogue among cultures, to make the most of diversity, to deepen respect for human rights and all forms of expression."
Irina Bokova, Director-general of UNESCO
The sixth annual International Jazz Day, is celebrated worldwide on April 30, 2017. International Jazz Day celebrates jazz music as a tool for making connections between people around the world. Through the magic of collective improvisation, jazz allows both listeners and performers to get to know each other, no matter their language or what country or culture they come from.
Many acclaimed musicians and educators from Cuba and around the world will participate in free jazz performances, master classes, improvisational workshops, jam sessions and community outreach initiatives.
Programs will take place at schools, arts venues, community centers, jazz clubs and parks across the city of Havana and throughout Cuba beginning on Monday, April 24th and leading up to the festivities on April 30th.
Additionally, jazz history and education programs will be provided for tens of thousands of students in over 11,000 schools across Cuba. These programs will be among the thousands of International Jazz Day live performances, educational activities, and community service programs taking place in more than 190 countries on all continents.
The day will culminate with an All-Star Global Concert presented at the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba, the Cuban Institute of Music and the Cuban National Commission for UNESCO. The concert will be live streamed by UNESCO and will feature an extraordinary array of artists from around the world paying tribute to the international art form of jazz.
Education:
"Jazz is an expression of creativity and diversity"
Jazz breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for mutual understanding and tolerance;
Jazz is a vector of freedom of expression;
Jazz is a symbol of unity and peace;
Jazz reduces tensions between individuals, groups, and communities;
Jazz fosters gender equality
Jazz reinforces the role youth play for social change;
Jazz encourages artistic innovation, improvisation, new forms of expression, and inclusion of traditional music forms into new ones;
Jazz stimulates intercultural dialogue and empowers young people from marginalized societies.
It contributes to:
Integrate Culture in Sustainable Development Frameworks
Promote Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Protect and promote the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
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Since 2012, the 1st International Jazz Day, Vocational Jazz Educationhas a voice! Musicians, educators, students of schools Jazz from around the world can celebrate the recognition of the Music they teach and learn.
They will embrace the opportunity to foster greater appreciation not only for the music but also for the contribution it can make to building more inclusive societies.
UNESCO invite students and schools from around the world to join in the celebration of International Jazz Day and play at the schools concerts.
Some possible activities to teachers and students:
Play jazz recordings or video clips and have students write or share their reflections.
Discuss how jazz inspires peace, unity, teamwork and communication.
Organize a jazz-themed performance by your school band or choir. For example celebrate Ella Fitzgerald 100.
Create a class mural or decorate your classroom with jazz-inspired drawings or posters (of instruments or musicians, for example).
Explore the mathematical basis of the swing rhythm.
Research the history of jazz in your town or city. What makes jazz in your area unique?
Develop your own lesson plan centered around jazz – and let us know how it turns out!
If you are thinking to perform on Jazz Day, visit JazzDay.com/resources and let know the link and the musicians and where you perform and for how many people on this map.
Your videos and your photos will be posted right on JazzDay.com
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald’s birthday (April 25, 1917), and “The First Lady Of Song” will be celebrated across the world until April 2018 with prestigious exhibits, a trove of new music releases and myriad independent tributes and concerts as a part of the Ella 100 centennial celebration.
I am huge fan of Jazz! So you will find some interesting posts about Jazz & musicians on this blog.
"Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. "
"Music should be a very solid part of the education of young children."
Sir George Martin
Hoje, 1 de Outubro, celebra-se o Dia Mundial da Música. Para além das muitas actividades que estão a decorrer em todo o país, nada melhor do que apoiar a divulgação da Orquestra Geração Portugal, um projecto de inclusão social através da Música, de jovens portugueses que vivem em condições sociais degradadas, tirando-os da rua e dos riscos inerentes à sua condição, pelo ensino da Música (clássica e jazz).
Todos conhecemos o El Sistema de orquestras infantis e juvenis da Venezuela idealizado pelo maestro e economista José Antonio Abreu, há 40 anos, para tirar crianças da pobreza com o auxílio de Mahler ou Beethoven. E que tem como grande dinamizador o maestro venezuelano, Gustavo Dudamel, LA Phil director.
Sete anos passados, Portugal tem aOrquestra Geração(OG) reconhecida pelo Ministério da Educação como projecto especial e gratuito. Com a segunda fase do projecto concluído - a constituição deorquestras municipais Geração -, falta agora a maior expansão do projecto a nível nacional, constituindo orquestras regionais incorporadas em várias escolas do país. E, por último, a criação de uma orquestra nacional de cariz profissional, seguindo o modelo daOrquestra Sinfónica Simon Bolívar, Venezuela.
Actualmente, mais de 800 alunos de escolas situadas em zonas com menor oportunidade de acesso ao ensino das artes, que estão envolvidos, no âmbito de protocolos estabelecidos com os concelhos da Amadora, Lisboa, Oeiras, Loures, Sesimbra, Sintra, Vila Franca de Xira e Coimbra. Universo que se amplia cada dia, tal como a música que toca.
"Começamos a ter mais notoriedade, com aOGa apresentar concertos na Casa da Música(4 de Março, Porto), e noCentro Cultural de Belém(3 de Maio, Lisboa). Por isso, e com apoios privados, em 2015 vamos expandir para Norte", explica ao DN António Wagner Diniz, da direcção da Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional responsável pela Orquestra Geração.
créditos video : Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Em Portugal, aOG - que pertence ao Sistema Europeu - é na Europa, o projecto mais antigo e o que segue mais de perto oEl Sistema, já adoptado em 42 países.
"Os miúdos trabalham cerca de 35 minutos por semana, em França. Nós trabalhamos sete horas", sublinha Wagner Diniz. O empenho foi premiado por José Antonio Abreu, presente na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkianno passado dia 31 de Maio, durante a apresentação da Orquestra Teresa Carreño, uma das formações de topo da grande pirâmide musical que é o El Sistema
Orquestra Geração | Entrevistas alunos
Educação :
"O projecto Orquestra Geração tem revestido em Portugal um papel igualmente importante na aproximação e motivação das famílias dos alunos, no sentido de se integrarem progressivamente nas actividades da orquestra, contribuindo para o alargamento do espectro de acção do mesmo, motivando e responsabilizando todo o agregado familiar na obtenção dos resultados por nós idealizados. "
Objectivos:
Promover a inclusão social das crianças e jovens de bairros social e economicamente mais desfavorecidos e problemáticos;
Combater o abandono e o insucesso escolar;
Promover o trabalho de grupo, a disciplina e a responsabilidade para uma melhor cidadania;
Promover a auto-estima das crianças e das suas famílias;
Aproximar os pais do processo educativo dos filhos;
Contribuir para a construção de projectos de vida dos aadolescentes;
Promover o acesso a uma formação musical que seria impossível para a maioria das crianças e jovens que vivem em contextos de exclusão social e urbana.
São já muitas as escolas nacionais incluidas neste projecto. Confesso que fiquei feliz ao tomar conhecimento que esta ideia deEl Sistemajá tinha criado raízes em Portugal. Se quiser saber quais, é só veraqui
Sou grande admiradora deste projecto desde que passou a ser divulgado pelo maestro Dudamelna Venezuela, pais de onde é natural.
Tem ainda outra vertente que me alegra muito - a música de jazz. Teve lugar o
The Orquestra Geração programmeoffers children from underprivileged suburbs of Portugal (Lisbon and other cities), the opportunity to keep on practice music: instruments and music courses are available to them free of charge. It's a musical project for inclusion of the young Portuguese who live innderprivileged suburbs. I remember the project from Lisbon suburbs that took part at theinternational tour of Roger Waters(concert in Lisbon) in 2011. Sixteen ethnic kids from "Associação Moinho da Juventude da Cova da Moura" (near Lisbon) had a special participation on stage with Roger Waters and his fourteen musicians.
The Gerajazz project, which offers 25 children with a classical background intensive courses in jazz:
The Orquestra Municipal project, intended for 30 to 40 children who have already completed their schooling and want to continue their music training outside of school.
The first Gerajazz two-day workshop took place on the 16th and 17th December with 3 groups of 12 children and 2 teachers in each group. There will be 3 other workshops in the year in order to create a jazz band (25 children minimum, 4 public concerts).
The rehearsals of the Orquestra Municipal have been started since the 5th January and are held every two weeks in the Amadora Theatre in the suburb of Lisbon. The first public concert tookplace on the 25th April 2013.
Now, the Orquestra Geração is in different Portuguese schools. More than 800 kids and young adolescents from the suburbs are playing music in differents schools.
Education:
The holistic immersive approach of Music (classical, rock, pop, jazzc) and the engagement of important and experencied musicians is central to achieving significant transformation, particularly to the life of the most vulnerable children.
Children and young people from all backgrounds should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, to make music with others, to learn to sing or to dance, to have the opportunity to progress to the next level of excellence.
As I wrote already on this blog: "Music has the potential to achieve social and psychological transformation of children and young people. Their sensibility will be accurate. We must never waste such an opportunity as teachers! Captivating the major interests of our students about Music."
Music, as you can read on several posts on this blog, is fundamental in Education of young people.
