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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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"It All Begins with the Beat of a Drum": Early Australian Encounters with Orff Schulwerk
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Southcott, Jane; Cosaitis, Wei – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2012
The introduction of the influential Orff Schulwerk approach to music education in Australia is generally reported as occurring in the late 1960s. However, this was not the earliest encounters with the pedagogy in Australia. Patricia L. Holmes included Orff materials in teacher inservices in the late 1950s, before she travelled overseas to work…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Foreign Countries, Musical Instruments
Experiences and Understandings: Student Teachers' Beliefs about Multicultural Practice in Music Education
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Joseph, Dawn; Southcott, Jane – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2010
In this time of national curriculum re-thinking, tertiary institutions are positioned to create opportunities amongst pre-service teachers for the cultivation of knowledge, skills and understandings concerning cultural diversity in music education. The demographic profile of the State of Victoria is the most culturally diverse in Australia and the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Student Teachers, Music Education, Music