Basic information:
Title: Teaching Staff
Area of Specialization: Music Education
Contact details:
Phone No: 210-3688401 Φαξ: 210-3688510
E-mail: nikotsaf@ecd.uoa.gr
Personal site:
http://users.uoa.gr/~nikotsaf
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education |
Academic information
| Education |
- PhD in Music Education, Title of Thesis: Building Musical Instruments in Music Education: Apprenticeship, Knowledge and construction in early childhood teacher education
- ΜΑ, Master of Arts in Music Education, Reading University, England
- MA module in Open and Distance Learning, Hellenic Open University
- BA in Traditional Music, Department of Traditional Music, Faculty of Music Technology. Technological Educational Institute of Epirus
- Degree in Theory of (Western) Music, Greek Conservatory
- Diploma in Kodaly Concept of Music Education, Kesckemet Hungary
Courses
- Composition, Juilliard School of Music, New York
- Piano, Symphonic percussions, recorder (flauto dolce), Greek Traditional Guitar
- Seminars in Orff-Schulwerk, Salzburg, Austria
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| Research interests |
- Theories of Music and Movement Education
- Apprenticeship and Tacit Knowledge in Education
- Construction of improvised Musical Instruments as an Educational Tool
- Construction of Membranophone musical Instruments
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| Courses and Seminars |
Undergraduate
- 601. Theories of Music and Movement Education Ι a΄ semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 619. Theories of Music and Movement Education ΙI b΄ semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 93B. Application of Μusic and Μovement Εducation in Early Childhood Education (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 602. Building Improvised Musical Instruments with Odd Materials d΄ semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 605. Construction of Musical Instruments and Musical Idioms Ι e΄ semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 620 . Construction of Musical Instruments and Musical Idioms ΙI f΄ semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
- 606. Percussive Musical Instruments and sound Generators h΄semester (Δ.Μ.: 3, ECTS: 5)
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Selected Publications
- (2010). Musical knowledge and apprenticeship in modern Greek luthiers: a case study. Annual BFE Conference“ What is Musical Knowledge”,, University of Oxford, 8 – 11 April 2010
- (2008). Three tunes… one thousand musical phrases. The composition of motives and musical phrases as a tool in Music Education.
- http://cim08.web.auth.gr/index2.htm
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Additional Information
- Member of the Society for the Study of Human Sciences and Topika workshops
- Founding member of the Greek Society for Music Education
- Founding member of the Greek Orff-Schulwerk Association
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