Place-Based Pedagogies for Improvisation
Presented
by
GARO SARAYDARIAN
WEBINAR OVERVIEW
A presentation from the
Jazz Education Research and Practice Journal,
a publication of the Jazz Education Network.
In this webinar I imagine a pedagogy of place for the teaching of jazz improvisation. Placed-based pedagogy sees learning as occurring not just within classroom walls, but in the surrounding cultural and natural environment. My idea is that by making a space for place, we create opportunities for students to ground their creative development, enculturing their technical skills so that they have a spot from which to say something from a place deeply felt and personally meaningful.
DOWNLOADS & LINKS
- Also located at:
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/
10.2979/jazzeducrese.1.1.15
ABOUT GARO SARAYDARIAN
Garo is a lecturer in music at MIT and an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in the Harmony and Composition Department. Garo also teaches music education and music theory at the Longy School of Music of Bard College where he has been involved in redesigning the music theory curriculum to decenter the traditional emphasis on European theory. His research interests include marginalized pedagogical practices in education, descriptive inquiry, critical theory, digital humanities, pedagogies of place, Carnatic music, and the oud. Garo is currently working on several projects including computational analysis of makams in late-Ottoman printed music, an archive of Armenian folk music printed in post-genocide Beirut and Soviet Armenia, and a solfege-based web application for dictation skills.
Garo has published in Jazz Education for Research and Practice and has presented at the 2022 Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Education at Columbia University. He has co-authored a book Telling the Story in the Data: Narrative Writing for Doctoral Students and Qualitative Researchers which will be published by Teachers College Press in Fall 2022. Garo is also a jazz trombonist and performs regularly with the Boston-based Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra.
B.A., University of California, Riverside (Music); M.M., Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory (Jazz Performance); ABD, Lesley University (Educational Studies).
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