What is this group about? Well, MUREL is an acronym for MUsicREsearcheLearning.
MusicResearch and eLearning has been founded longtime ago in 2007 to
discuss strategies and didactic outlines how the results of music
research can be processed and transmitted to interested people with the
help of electronic media. The established disciplines in music research
care for the research-part, but are relatively uninterested in the part
of transmitting the results, except of publishing
them in magazines or monographies or storing them with sophisticated
methods in archives. There they sometimes "get moldly" and in extreme
cases lost in the darkness of oblivion.
The development of the
electronic media in the 20th and 21st century has been like a silent
revolution and has shed new light on didactic theories and practice. The
question was and still is how to use these new options for educational
purposes. The emphasis is on the "HOW" not on the question, whether it
is in general useful to use them. For the participants of this group
there is no doubt, that the electronic devices are an interesting and
attractive chance to create learning arrangements with electronic media
for the purpose to transmit and mediate results of music research.
But we want to discuss, how this can happen and exchange examples, where it has already happened sucessfully.
Basis for this discussion is my permanent project EthnoMusicScape,
where regional and non regional music-cultural systems and their forms
of expression are presented in clearly laid out web presentations
together with a didactic line how to use them in educational settings.
In my active years at the university I have worked with students, who
were equipped with their own notebook, to create some examples. They had
to reflect and document their own research, learning and creation
process in a so called portfolio.
I published at that time a small volume about:
http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/docs/pd-1128762041.htm .
Everybody, who is seriously interested in this field and its questions is invited to participate and to contribute.
There might be many more new ideas and possibilities to deal with
ethnomusicological research results plus electronic media. I am looking
forward to get inspiration!
