My initial thought when I hear the word scholarship is academic achievement and finding the right answer. I personally love searching for the one correct answer and finding success in that way. As a scholar, I love learning more about music education and making connections with it to other content. I enjoy reading and intaking new information, and then summarizing the content to share with others beneficially. For example, I searched the web for useful apps to use and wrote descriptions, pros, and cons for them so that music teachers could easily choose which resources they wanted to use without having to shuffle through superfluous information. I also like to reflect and ponder on my research and readings, which helps me understand the content and form meaningful questions that will further my scholarship. I have engaged in reflection through books, as well as through interactions and discussions on Twitter.
However, I've come to understand that scholarship goes beyond finding a correct answer. It actually should lead to more questions. Scholarship is engaging with the resources around you (i.e. books, articles, peers, faculty) and allowing them to stimulate curiosity to ask more thoughtful questions and seek more answers. This idea of scholarship sparking creativity and curiosity clicked for me during my Honors Capstone Project. I learned so much during the initial background research portion, but after my project and data analysis was completed, I realized I had more questions and more research to be answered. As a future educator, I hope to never run out of questions and to always be looking out for answers. American Orff-Schulwerk Association (2018). More on Orff Schulwerk. Retrieved from https://aosa.org/about/more-on-orff-schulwerk/
American Orff-Schulwerk Association (2018). Watch children in Orff Schulwerk classrooms. Retrieved from https://aosa.org/about/what-is-orff-schulwerk/watch-children-inorff- schulwerk-classrooms/ Carl Orff was a German composer, conductor, and pedagogue known widely for composing Carmina Burana and his pedagogical method Orff-Schulwerk. Gunild Keetman was a composer, performer, and teacher who collaborated with Orff and helped spread Orff-Schulwerk, particularly in the instrumental area. They created Orff-Schulwerk as another way for all children to be actively creating music through singing, percussion instruments, speech, and movement. Orff’s approach is meant for all learners and is intended to help them discover their artistic potential; key components of this method are integration, performance, and music literacy. Integration combines all aspects of the performing arts (movement, music, speech, drama) to encourage creativity; performance is a way for learners to refine and share their created material; and music literacy aims at the importance of being able to read music notation. An aim associated with Orff-Schulwerk is for learners to be spontaneously playing with music in a way that occurs naturally and unconsciously. The learning processes are preliminary play, imitation, exploration, and improvisation – these allow learners to play with music using elements of music and movement. Some activities associated with this are playing Orff instruments to a song the students wrote themselves or simply playing a hand slapping game (like Down by the Banks). Some practical uses of Orff-Schulwerk would be creating tunes and improvising on said tunes in the music classroom using Orff instruments and recorders. Another practical use would be a method that allows students to learn how to read music. Some advantages of this pedagogical method are that it allows students to create and improvise in a safe environment. It also helps with the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills and the ability to transfer those items from context to context. Some challenges are that learning notation through instruments rather than by rote singing may be more difficult for students because the sound production is not as internalized. |
Davina MiawOn this page, I will present examples of my scholarship in the form of reflective essays and philosophical assignments. Archives
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