National Centre for Research in Music Education and Sound Arts (MERC)
The Canterbury University, through its UNESCO Observatory ‘Arts Hub Aotearoa’, focuses onmusic education in New Zealand and the Pacific region.
MERC serves as the national hub for the coordination of and contribution to research in music education and sound arts. Through its activities, the Centre will increase understanding and knowledge of the musical arts in education and in the wider community.
Music education encompasses specific disciplines including symbolic learning, technical skill acquisition, audiation, psychology, aesthetics, acoustics, music history, technology, performance and composition. As inherently co-constructive, music education helps learners to realise socio-cultural forms of expression and to communicate personal emotions and understandings of the world through music.
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