Inclusion matters – ideas for inclusive music making, teaching and sharing

I recently attended the Hackney Learning Trust’s music education conference on the 24th of April [...]

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Edinburgh SEN teacher nominated for Learning Through Technology Award

This year’s Scottish Education Awards sees Wendy Whyte from Prospect Bank school in Edinburgh being [...]

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Tips for inclusive music making.

Inclusive music making is where it’s at, and one that is at the heart of [...]

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4 of the best portable speakers around

Here is a  quick snapshot of what’s on the market in terms of portable speakers.  [...]

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Autism and Music Therapy – An Introduction

In my interactions with service users, teachers, parents, carers and people involved with autism I [...]

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Highlights from the Music Education Expo March 2013

The Music Education Expo – 2013. This was the Show’s first year and with a [...]

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Nugget 6 – Experimental Brain Research – Music & Expression

  Measuring Expression in Musical Performance  Our 2008 paper, published in Experimental Brain Research. This [...]

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Nugget 5 – Kinetic Consequence from Mind to Body

In the course of the early noughties, Dave and I began trying to square the [...]

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Nugget 4 – We got Rhythm!

Published in a special edition of the German Encyclopaedia of Neuroscience, this next nugget is [...]

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Nugget 3 – to sing and Dance together!

Now a chapter written with the magnificent Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, an inspiring font of knowledge [...]

ACTIVE USB EXTENSION ! FREE YOUR SKOOG…

Just received and tested a cheap USB 2.0 ACTIVE REPEATER CABLE – Which in layman’s [...]

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Nugget 1- “Music as a tool in Communications research” 1998

The study of music as an act of communication, examining how musicians interact musically and creatively, [...]

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Starting a narrative – the psychology behind the Skoog…

There have been so many people and disciplines involved in inspiring, creating and supporting  our [...]

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