Alejandra Pacheco Costa

University of Seville | US · Departament of Arts Education

The authors draw on posthumanism to expand Reggio Emilia’s pedagogical documentation techniques through a diffractive montage. Analysis of a phenomenon involving 4- and 5-year-old children singing a lullaby in a school in Seville (Spain), considers how this diffractive montage leads to a reconfiguration of the pioneering work of Reggio Emilia. The...

Embracing the more-than-human paradigm in educational research allows to attend the intricacy and multilplicity of classroom situations. This research focuses on a music event in a primary education classroom in which several agents intertwine. Thinking-with-theory upon this event allows us to create new knowledge and to avoid limiting strategies t...

La alfabetización multimodal implica el uso de múltiples modos de comunicación en la comprensión y producción de textos. Esta revisión examina el sonido y la música en la investigación sobre alfabetización multimodal, analizando 48 trabajos de las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus. Identifica métodos y aspectos educativos comunes en los textos...

La alfabetización multimodal implica el uso de múltiples modos de comunicación en la comprensión y producción de textos. Esta revisión examina el sonido y la música en la investigación sobre alfabetización multimodal, analizando 48 trabajos de las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus. Identifica métodos y aspectos educativos comunes en los textos...

The concept of assemblage, drawing on the posthuman theorisations of Deleuze and Guattari, delineates a dynamic and new materialist approach to an event. In this approach, desires, material agency and (de)(re)territorialisation emerge as key concepts, and open ways to understand the school classroom in early childhood as a territory where lines of...

The more-than-human turn in early childhood education has highlighted the relevance of children’s intra-actions with their environment, as well as the multiple ways in which worlds and literacies emerge in them. The rejection of representationalism as the single source of knowledge leads to the consideration of affect, embodiment, memories, sound a...

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, ICT has been urgently introduced in education systems in a generalised manner. In this context, it is essential for teachers to master a spectrum of basic digital competencies and manifest digital leadership in the classroom. In addition, it is necessary to consider the relationship between digital competence de...

Among the recent approaches to literacy incorporated into Literacy Studies, the concept of (im)materiality has enabled researchers to delve into the fluid and hybrid nature of contemporary literacy practices in early childhood. Our research explores the (im)materiality of literacy practices from the perspectives of space, screen mediation, artefact...

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Social sustainability embraces literacy development as a means by which children integrate their knowledge in society and become powerful and meaningful. In this context, the development of writing among young children requires the design of new teaching strategies that allow for the multimodal repertoire brought by children into the classroom. Sys...

During the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, a serious concern regarding the academic credentials of musicians arose in Spain. This movement was led by Francisco Barbieri and Felipe Pedrell. Drawing on Krausism and Regenerationism, Pedrell defined the cultural background required by true artists, following...

Background Research has suggested that one of the most important variables for the development of reading comprehension is the home literacy environment, composed of the literacy interface and what is known as the limiting environment. The current study investigated Spanish children's reading comprehension in relation to these two dimensions. Meth...

Although playing by ear has important benefits for the development of musicianship, one-to-one instrumental teaching has traditionally overlooked it. The current research describes the strategies applied by three woodwind teachers with their students in a Spanish music school through a multiple-case embedded study. Data were collected through multi...

¡Oír, escuchar, tocar! es un libro dirigido al profesorado de música que tenga curiosidad por explorar los mundos de tocar de oído, el aprendizaje informal, la improvisación o la música popular. Partiendo de una introducción sobre cómo aprenden los músicos populares en un entorno informal, el libro aplica muchos aspectos de estas prácticas de apren...

Aunque tocar de oído es importante para desarrollar habilidades musicales, su práctica apenas está presente en las aulas de centros de educación musical. En el presente trabajo indagamos el repertorio más adecuado para ser tocado de oído. La conclusión principal es que esta práctica se desarrolla con más facilidad mediante un repertorio de música p...

Melodies, Rhythm and Cognition in Foreign Language Learning is a collection of essays reflecting on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. This book provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition. The interplay between language music brings to...

The pianist Juan Bautista Pujol was a key figure in Barcelona's music world in the second half of the nineteenth century. Some of the most eminent pianists of the following decades, such as Ricardo Viñes, Enrique Granados, Joaquin Malats or Carlos Vidiella, were his pupils. From his piano pedagogy and treatise on mechanism of the piano, we try to d...

Los conciertos didácticos han tenido una enorme difusión en la última década. Este tipo de actuaciones se ha constituido como la forma más adecuada de acercar a los alumnos y alumnas de las distintas etapas educativas a la música en vivo. Observamos cómo forman parte de las actividades curriculares complementarias que se ofertan en los distintos ce...