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Music Ed and Neuroscience

July 16, 2013

Webinar: July 25, 3:30

For immediate release
July 12, 2013

Music education and neuroscience take center stage at the latest public webinar from the NEA Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development

You are invited to a live, public webinar on Thursday, July 25, 2013 from 3:30 pm until 4:30 pm ET.

As part of a growing body of research on arts and brain function, music research has many people listening.  Neuroscience  has helped to demonstrate the work of innovative music-education programs around the country.  One such program, Harmony Project –http://www.harmony-project.org, is an award-winning organization that  provides research-based music education to at-risk youth in Los Angeles, California.

For two decades, neurobiologist Nina Kraus has pioneered multidisciplinary research on how music affects brain function across the lifespan. Dr. Kraus, principal investigator at the Auditory Neuroscience Lab – http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/brainvolts/at Northwestern University, will share her latest findings on music learning and brain development as they relate to Harmony Project.

This is the latest public webinar hosted by the NEA Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development – http://www.arts.gov/national/TaskForce/index.html, an alliance of 17 federal departments, agencies, divisions, and offices that encourage more and better research on how the arts help people reach their full potential at all stages of life.

The NEA and the Interagency Task Force periodically host public webinars to share compelling research, practices, and/or funding opportunities for research in the arts and human development. Task Force members include representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and other agencies and departments.

Guests and speakers:

  • Jerry Kyle, Management & Program Analyst, Professional Development for Arts Educators  Program Officer, U.S. Department of Education
  • Margaret Martin, Founder, Harmony Project
  • Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor and Principal Investigator, Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University

Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research & Analysis, NEA, will
moderate the webinar

To join the webinar

The webinar takes place on Thursday, July 25, 2013, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET. It is free and open to the public. Please register in advance  – http://cirrus.mail-list.com/necap/19319081.html Media may RSVP to Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs Specialist at giffords@arts.gov.

You may listen using your computer’s speakers or dial-in to 1-877-685-5350 and use participant code: 739587. Attendees will be muted but able to type in questions and comments through a text Q&A box.  Please note, a video  will be featured during the presentation, the audio will be available only via computer.

Follow us on Twitter as we live-tweet this webinar @NEAarts, hashtag
#NEAtaskforce.

An archive of the webinar will be available at http://www.arts.gov/podweb/webinars.html

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Music and Learning

September 28, 2011

Music as Inspiration

There are non-music educators who understand the value of music in their classrooms as an inspirational, motivational, tool and for the connections in the brain to help in learning. We know in many cases students need music to help them process their learning. Kathy Freeman is an elementary teacher who sees the connection and uses music when teaching writing. In an article published in Education Week Teacher she explains the numerous ways that she utilizes music to enhance her lessons and how music is the foundation for learning. I suggest sharing the ideas and the link with your colleagues.

The author realizes that some educatorss disagree with her methods. Since they are distracted by music when they work they think that students are as well. Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Mark Jude Tramo affirms what the author knows to be true from his research Music on the Brain.

Using this information informally in conversation with students, parents and/or colleagues or as an agenda item for a teachers meeting is an avenue to raise awareness about the value of arts education. If you have a minute I suggest you read the articles/research.

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