Dr. Smaragda Chrysostmou
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Institute of Music | Professor, Instructor
Dr. Smaragda Chrysostmou
Music teacher education for an unstable future – technology’s affordances for creativity
Change is inevitable and one of the major characteristics of modern society. The only way forward is to adjust and adapt to change and at the same time use it constructively and creatively. Music teacher education is an important period in teachers’ lives as they learn about themselves, prepare for their profession as well as for an unknown and unpredictable future. In this presentation I will focus on technology’s affordances for creative music teaching. In the new digital reality that has emerged in the post-pandemic era, future teachers are required to infuse their teaching with both creativity and technology, rethink how they communicate and share ideas and take initiatives for their own learning in a variety of ways.
Instructor
Dr. Smaragda Chrysostmou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens // Greece
Dr Smaragda Chrysostomou is Professor of Music Pedagogy and Didactics at the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
She teaches at the Department of Primary Education, School of Education at NKUA. She also teaches at the MA ‘Music Education’ long-distance course at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
She was the coordinator of the Aesthetic Education Committee for the national project "DIGITAL SCHOOL: Specifying a Digital Educational Platform, Building and Operating an Educational Knowledge Base, Adapting and Annotating Learning Objects with Educational Metadata, Building the Infrastructure to Support Exemplary Teaching Practices and the Use of the Participatory Web".
She is the coordinator of the Arts & Culture Committee at the National project ‘Digital transformation and enrichment of educational context’.
She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the International Society for Music Education (2016-2020) and also as chair and commissioner for ISME’s Commission for Music in the Schools and Teacher Education (MISTEC).
She is the Director of the Music Education Lab at the Department of Music Studies (http://musicedulab.music.uoa.gr/)
She is the Director of the postgraduate program (MA) "Music Education in formal and informal environments" (http://musicedulab.music.uoa.gr/programma-metaptyxiakon-spoydon-pms.html)
Current research interests include: music teacher education, music and arts integration, music curriculum, assessment in the music classroom, digital technology in music education, music learning in formal and informal environments.
More publication information at: http://publicationslist.org/schrysos