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OECE - Opera and Early Childhood Education: Building European Awareness through Music in Pandemia Times

“Opera and Early Childhood Education: Building European Awareness through Music in Pandemia Times” is a 2-year Erasmus+ Project coordinated by Universidad de Oviedo in Spain. It counts on five more partner organizations from Spain, Italy and Bulgaria: Fundación Ópera de Oviedo, Leggi tutto Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana (ASLICO), Academiya za Muzikalno and State Opera – Plovdiv. OECE is in line with the objectives of the European policies linked to the Erasmus + Program. Our motivation is to achieve social inclusion and the creation of quality educational content in challenging times such as this pandemic Codiv-19 situation, making use of music as a vehicle for knowledge in Early Childhood Education. We pretend Opera, European Cultural Heritage, to be the perfect tool for providing an inclusive and European-unity sense society through multimedia tools. Our main objectives are: 1. To promote and generalize Opera as a means of inclusion of disadvantaged population, specially from rural areas; 2. To design and plan educational experiences related to opera that make it possible to alleviate the access to culture in general, and music in particular, of children in Early Childhood Education in rural areas during pandemia times such as the current one; 3. To stimulate the taste for quality (and non-elitist so far) music in Early Childhood Education (0-6 years old) through Opera in (non-existent so far) formal and online education practices: Opera as European Cultural Heritage, a high-quality music tool available to all children and a means of almost perfect expression for toddlers through their voice, rhythm and body expression competences; 4. To improve the development of children’s musical, cognitive, psychomotor, linguistic and emotional competences; 5. To develop online and face-to-face training actions aimed at Early Childhood Education educators to promote their music didactic skills; 6. To offer multimedia didactic resources that promote the development of musical skills in Early Childhood Education; 7. To encourage and support parents with no music background on their key role for the cultural education of their children; 8. To get toddlers familiarized with high quality music education for further make them aware of its European singularity for the sake of social cohesion; 9. To promote the relationship between schools and families. The most important group of participants in this project are children in Early Childhood Education centers. The project selected three rural schools in the area of partner universities and Opera Houses. In total, 60 children, their parents and educators. For them, this project is presenting an innovative proposal around a genuine opera adaptation for children in Early Childhood Education. This project is developing a Training Methodology for educators and an Educational Methodology for Children based on the opera adaptation; video-tutorials and their own training methodology for educators as well as for Parents and Other Family Members; an App Designed for Schools, Families and Children, which presents music from a playful perspective that will democratize children's approach to Opera; and ScreeningOpera, final opera performances (based on a co-production by Universidad de Oviedo, Ópera de Oviedo, ASLICO and State Opera in Plovdiv) face-to-face or on streaming, depending on the development of Covid-19. Children will attend the Opera House to watch and listen to the opera production with their parents. The opera performance will also be available on streaming for those children and families unable to assist, as well as having in mind the continuation of these pandemic times. One of the main strengths of the project resides in its multidisciplinarity: Musicology, Music Education, Lyric Theater, Research and Diagnostic Methods in Education, Speech and Language Therapy, and Physical Education and Sport Division, which allows to face this task with a complementary perspective and greater capacity for solving and managing the project, as well as for solving possible difficulties that may arise during its execution. Innovation is given by both the interdisciplinary nature of this proposal: Music Education, Opera, Speech Therapy and Diagnostic Methods, Sports Education and Dance, and the creation of new materials around the opera in multimedia formats such as video-tutorials, streaming sessions or an App. The methodologies involved include the methods by Jacques Dalcroze, Karl Orff, Edgar Willems, Maurice Martenot, Jos Wuytack and Shinichi Suzuki, always designed to be presented face to face and online, just in case of pandemic times or simply difficulties derived from living in rural areas. This project makes it possible to respond to the children’s and families’, as well as educators', cultural and musical needs, especially in times of Covid-19, when access to culture is so limited and, at the same time, so necessary

Responsabili: PEPE ALESSANDRO
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Bando: Call 2020 Round 1 KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - KA227 - Partnerships for Creativity
Enti finanziatori: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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