The UP Diliman College of Music (CMu) launched its World Expert Lecture Series (WELS) this October with the theme MusiKapatiran: Music Education and Intercultural Understanding in Challenging Times.
According to the CMu, WELS “brings globally recognized experts to UP to deepen scholarship, strengthen teacher practice, and foster intercultural understanding [and] spotlights intercultural perspectives, community-rooted approaches to music and learning.”
As the opening lecture, WELS focused on world music pedagogy, featuring Patricia Shehan Campbell, a leading scholar in music education and pioneer of world music pedagogy.
Campbell discussed Early-Childhood Songs: For the Love of Young Children: Music to Know and Grow From on Oct. 3 at the CMu Minihall.
In her lecture brief, Campbell states, “young children are musically expressive on their own [and] they ‘grow’ their understanding of people and cultures, their language fluency, their social skills, and their physical coordination through the music experiences that teachers facilitate for them.”
Campbell is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, chair of education at Smithsonian Folkways, and founder of World Music Pedagogy.
Campbell’s lecture was followed by a hybrid session in music education and ethnomusicology titled Criss-Crossing Fields: Evolutionary EM-ME Intersections held at the CMu Graduate Seminar Room and via Zoom.
The next lecture is a Philippine Society for Music Education webinar on research in music education for in-service teachers. It featured Research/Practice on Teaching Music Teaching Culture on Oct. 4 at the CMu Minihall and Zoom Workspace from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
WELS closes with Musikolohiya with Dr. Santos: UP Center for Ethnomusicology on Oct. 6 at the UP Center for Ethnomusicology Reading Room at 9 a.m. This features Pedagogical Instincts and Efforts: Views from a Teaching Ethnomusicologist.
WELS is presented in partnership with the Office for International Linkages, UP Center for Ethnomusicology, Philippine Society for Music Education, and UP Junior Music Educators’ Guild—With a report from the CMu