New Project: Spaces and times of contemporary childhood in Brasilia (Brazil)

Brasília, located in the Federal District, was built in the 1950s based on a modernistic urban plan developed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. The space is demarcated according to housing, government offices, hospitals, and leisure installations. Established as the Brazilian capital in 1960, it has already been investigated from… Continue reading

Documentando la investigación colaborativa con adolescentes en torno a sus experiencias musicales en «La aventura del Saber (RTVE)»

En el último programa de la temporada 2014-15 de La aventura del saber aparece el reportaje que ha estado realizándose durante el último año en torno a las actividades generadas dentro y fuera del instituto por el proyecto de investigación colaborativa e innovación docente en torno al significado de la música… Continue reading

Workshop #3: Learning, Education, Identities, and Musical Experiences: Ethnographic Approaches

Twitter time-line: #wsmadrid2015 LEARNING, EDUCATION, IDENTITIES, AND MUSICAL EXPERIENCES: ETHNOGRAPHIC APROACHES 17-18 April 2015 (Friday-Saturday) Goals This small two-day conference/workshop gathers empirical and methodological papers that document and discuss the place of music and closely related expressive practices in the daily lives of people across the life-span and in a… Continue reading

Language in context: An ecological turn to embodied language

Murillo, Galera & Casla: «“Which one is different?” :gestures and speech combination beyond the two-word stage» Gestures and speech combinations have a crucial role on early lexical and syntactic development. Nonetheless, little is known about the role of these combinations on language learning beyond the two-word stage. The aim of… Continue reading