Projects
RESONANCES – The resonances of intercultural exchanges between students on their music teaching practices and methods
Team
Ricardo Castro (HEM, project manager)
Alix Didier Sarrouy (INET-md, scientific coordinator)
Maria Peres (INET-md, research assistant)
Period
01/07/2024 to 31/12/2025
Funding
Haute École de Musique de Genève
RESONANCES is a new project with multisited research on music education in intercultural contexts. It will start on 1 July 2024. It is the result of a partnership between the Haute École de Musique de Genève (HEM) and INET-md, with the support of the Fondation NEOJIBA Switzerland. Ricardo Castro (pianist, conductor, founder of NEOJIBA and professor at HEM) is the project manager; Alix Didier Sarrouy (integrated researcher at INET-md) is the scientific coordinator; and Maria Peres (recently graduated in musical sciences at FCSH) is the research assistant.
The RESONANCES project is an in-depth exploration of the impact of international educational exchanges on music teaching and practice. It seeks to better understand the effects of encounters between young musicians/teachers from different cultures, in other words, the role of sharing experiences and information between young multicultural musicians on their musical practice and their own teaching methods.
Some very high-level music teaching institutions organise annual meetings between young musicians belonging to other renowned institutions and coming from a wide variety of backgrounds. The concrete impact of these exchanges, both personal and collective, should be studied, including the various parties involved (i.e. students, teachers, institutions).
To accomplish this, we will carry out two case studies: (1) exchanges between the Haute École de Musique de Genève (HEM) and NEOJIBA in Salvador de Bahia. For a decade now, students from the HEM have been going to NEOJIBA for an intensive one-month course, followed six months later by a similar course for NEOJIBA students at the HEM; (2) the international programme Academy for Impact Through Music (AIM), which focuses on training young music teachers from all continents to enhance their ability to contribute to the personal and collective development of students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.
The project RESONANCES draws on a team of experts in music education and methods from the social sciences, in particular ethnomusicology and sociology. The results of this research project will have significant implications for music teaching and for understanding the role of cultural diversity in the potential development of motivating and inclusive pedagogies.
Keywords
Music; Students; Interculturality; Teaching; Pedagogy
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