The experimental Research-Action “ABF Music Curriculum A-R Project” aims to initiate a process of renewal of the educational approach in the formal contexts of education and instruction from 3 to 14 years of age through an action of research and reflection on the resources offered by the languages of music within the school curriculum. The path lasts four years and sees the addition of a new school level from year to year until the completion of the first cycle of education. The pathway is addressed directly to teachers with the aim of supporting – through direct experimentation of projects within their respective school contexts – the acquisition and consolidation of strategies for using and managing the potential of musical languages in everyday life: a resource to support, supplement and enrich each field of experience and subject area.
THE NETWORK
School District “G. Leopardi” of Sarnano
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CONTEXT
The experimental Research-Action “ABF Music Curriculum A-R Project” aims to initiate a process of renewal of the educational approach in the formal contexts of education and instruction from 3 to 14 years of age through an action of research and reflection on the resources offered by the languages of music within the school curriculum. The path lasts four years and sees the addition of a new school level from year to year until the completion of the first cycle of education. The pathway is addressed directly to teachers with the aim of supporting – through direct experimentation of projects within their respective school contexts – the acquisition and consolidation of strategies for using and managing the potential of musical languages in everyday life: a resource to support, supplement and enrich each field of experience and subject area.
OBJECTIVES
- To initiate, coordinate and consolidate a process of methodological innovation supported by the resources offered by musical languages in education;
- To experiment with new forms of educational continuity from 3 to 14 years of age;
- To update the school curriculum through participatory planning with teachers.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
| M.U. | Performance indicators | |
|---|---|---|
| Direct beneficiaries* | no. | 60 approx. |
| Indirect beneficiaries** | no. | 400 approx. |
| Degree of innovation | n/a | Structuring a participatory pathway for the development of a curriculum open to musical languages |
* Number of teachers participating in the 3rd year of the action-research project
** Number of students enrolled in the academic year 23-24 at the School District Leopardi” of Sarnano
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Stage 1: Identification on the basis of needs analysis, stakeholder mapping and partner assessment, with subsequent feasibility* project;
Stage 2: Design undertaken by the in-house Team involving recipients, beneficiaries and local partners in co-design activities;
Stage 3: Execution direct ABF management through structured and standardised forms of monitoring and evaluation;
Stage 4: Evaluation using the indicators defined in the design stage;
Stage 5: Monthly narrative and four-monthly financial report.
* The context analysis required to identify the needs of potential beneficiaries and the actions to be undertaken includes a preliminary study and in-depth analysis on:
· 2030 Agenda as a framework for project guidance;
· Systematic review of the international literature.
IMPACTS ON THE COMMUNITIES
The project enhances the daily work of the teachers working within the School District, offering them a channel for continuous training with which to enrich their armoury of tools and educational strategies. In addition, it characterises and identifies the School itself, on the one hand as a place of active participation and educational research, and on the other as a school specifically open to musical languages for educational innovation.
