The role of the music educator as an arranger of class energy through the flexible application of sound frames in Primary School. (original) (raw)

2008, Current trends and dynamics of School Psychology in Education and Music Pedagogy. (Argyriou, M., Editor)

One of the big challenges faced by contemporary educators is noise in class; noise, which results from primary school students’ difficulty to concentrate on and participate in the lesson appropriately. The class noise problem appears to be worse in subjects traditionally associated by children with games and expressive activities, such as the music class. Many young music educators, in their effort to compete with class noise, harm their vocal mechanism, while at the same time experience an atmosphere of constant anxiety and disappointment due to their inability to achieve the educational objectives. This presentation describes a musical approach to the problem of class noise. In the suggested model, the music educator is asked to interpret the noise of his/her class as a ‘social arrhythmia’. Acting as an arranger of his students’ energies, he/she is to choose appropriate sound frames for every occasion, which would ‘contain’ this energy and would lead every time to the creation of a eurhythmic music composition and an equally eurhythmic lesson. The presentation will be supplemented by examples of application of sound frames (i.e. rondo, ABA form, song-improvisation alternations etc.) as organizers and ‘containers’ of primary school students’ emotions and excess energy during music class.

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