CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers and main speakers

EuNetMERYC and CFMAE-MERYC2015 board
CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference main speakers
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers’ team

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Tiina Selke, PhD

Professor of Music Education Didactics, Department of Music,
Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University &
Ääsme School Teacher, Estonia
CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference chair
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
Kindergarten/School/Music School program organizer
EuNet MERYC board member
ETIS CV

 

Gerhard Lock

Lecturer of Musicology, Department of Music, Institute of Fine Arts,
Tallinn University, Estonia
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonia (PhD candidate)
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
REMEC Research Methodology Course organizer
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
TLU Music Department CV

 

Michel Hogenes

Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
EuNet MERYC chair
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
EuNetMERYC website CV

Michel Hogenes is a lecturer of music education at the teacher education department and a researcher in the research group Youth and Development of The Hague University in The Netherlands. He also lectures pedagogy and psychology at Codarts, the Rotterdam School of Music.

Michel’s research interests are in the field of primary & early childhood education and music, with a focus on child development, and curriculum. The theoretical framework of his research is the cultural-historical (Vygotskian) approach. Besides lecturing Michel conducts a community choir and he is also president of Gehrels Music Education, a Dutch association for music education.

 

Jessica Pitt, PhD

Research Associate, Lecturer, Department of Education,
University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
MERYC-UK chair
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
EuNetMERYC website CV

Jessica Pitt is Chair of MERYC-UK which hosts a national early childhood music education conference every two years. She completed her doctoral research (funded by The Froebel Institute) at the University of Roehampton investigating the role of parent-child music group activities with participants in Children’s Centres. She is a research associate for the Froebel Research Fellowship Project, lectures for the Early Childhood Studies degree programme at University of Roehampton, and is course tutor for the MA in early years music at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham. She believes in the tremendous positive professional development that can take place when practitioners and academics meet together.

 

Laura Huhtinen-Hildén, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Board Member of EuNet MERYC
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
Helsinki Metropolia CV
EuNetMERYC website CV

Since 2007 Laura Huhtinen-Hildén (Ph.D. MMus, music therapist) has been working as the Senior Lecturer in music education at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. From 2009-2011 she was Head of Studies in the music degree programme. Her special responsibility is for the programme in early childhood music education and community music and she also coordinates research and development work within the degree programme (director of the CultureBridge- EU-project 2008-2011).

Her research “Towards sensitive music teaching. Pathways to becoming a professional music educator” (2012) focuses on the formation process of the professional skills needed in music teaching, the development of expertise and sense of professional identity formed during the study/learning process in order to become a music educator.

She has been developing the content and structure of the studies in the degree programme to be more learner-centered and to focus on participatory teaching methods. Her pedagogical areas of specialization are: early childhood music education, special music education, pre-instrumental music education, arts integration and movement, as working methods in music education.

 

Stefanie Stadler Elmer, PhD

Professor at the Institute of Psychology,
Zürich University, Switzerland
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer
MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer
University of Zurich CV
EuNetMERYC website CV

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Stadler Elmer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the University of Bern and her Habilitation from the University of Zurich. Important book publications are: Spiel und Nachahmung (play and imitation, 2000); Kinder singen Lieder (children sing songs, 2002). Her main interests in research and teaching concern the development of music and language, song singing, and methods to foster early development in these domains. She is involved in several research projects at national and international levels, e.g., as a collaborator in the AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing), supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and UMSIC (usability of music for the social inclusion of children), an interdisciplinary project funded by the EU.

 

Jaan Valsiner, PhD

Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology,
Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer
Aalborg University CV
Clark University CV
Private website

Jaan Valsiner is the Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology and Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his interdisciplinary work on human development.

CFMAE-MERYC2015-Jaan-Valsiner (PDF)

 

Graham Welch, PhD

Professor and Chair of Music Education,
Institute of Education, University College London, London, United Kingdom
SEMPRE chair
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Institute of Education CV

 

Tuomas Eerola, PhD

Professor of Music Cognition/Empirical Musicology, Department of Music,
Durham University, United Kingdom
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Durham University CV

 

Rūta Girdzijauskienė, PhD

Professor at the Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy,
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
EAS board member
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Klaipeda University CV

 

Nikolaos Zafranas, PhD

Assoc. Professor at the Department of Music Studies,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer
TEDx Athens CV

 

CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers’ team

 

Vaike Kiik-Salupere, PhD

Associated Professor of Vocal Studies, Head of Department of Music,
Institute of Fine Arts Tallinn University, Estonia
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
ETIS CV

 

Marit Mõistlik-Tamm, PhD

Lecturer of Music, Department of Music Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University, &
Tallinn Adult Learning Centre, Estonia
Maternal leave since February 2015
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
ETIS CV

 

Paul Beaudoin, PhD

Associate Prof. in Music Theory and Interdisciplinary Arts, Online Learning Specialist
Fitchburg University MA, United States of America
Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts Department of Music
Fulbright Scholar Spring 2015
CFMAE-MERYC2015 round table discussion moderator
Wikipedia CV

 

Organizational support at the Department of Music

Karin Org, project manager at Tallinn University Conference Center
Liisi Järve, study coordinator
Ariel Marksalu & Madli Luik, student assistants
Raul Talmar & Merike Aarma, coordinators and conductors of „Musical Moments“
Avo Ulvik, technical coordinator
Pille Saar, Tiit Lauk, Valdo Rüütelmaa, conference support
Auri Niilo & Lilian Jõesaar, book shop

MA and BA students

Partners at Tallinn University

Conference Center
Institute of Educational Sciences
Institute of Psychology

 

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