Professor Graham WELCH
g.welch@ioe.ac.uk
Chair of Music Education and Head of School of Arts and Humanities
Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom

Professor Graham Welch holds the Institute of Education, University of London Established Chair of Music Education and is Head of the Institute1s School of Arts and Humanities. He is elected Chair of the international Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and a recent past Co-Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). He also holds Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Limerick (Eire), Helsinki (Finland) and Roehampton (UK). Publications number over two hundred and embrace musical development and music education, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science and music in special education and disability.

SYNOPSIS

Finding symbolic and emotional significance in our everyday interactions with the world is one of the defining characteristics of being human. The ‘arts’ are central to these forms of behaviour because they allow us to explore aspects of our humanity, both individual and collective, and to understand our identities more clearly. In music, for example, enculturation and psychobiological design become interwoven from the final months of foetal development onwards in our growing awareness, experience and mastery of behaviours that are regarded as having artistic significance culturally and personally in the manipulation of sound (both vocal and instrumental).

Ongoing research in the UK across a consortium of higher education providers (York, Glasgow, Leeds, London) is currently exploring how musical identities as ‘performers’ are shaped by lifespan experiences and also how these, in turn, affect the way that performers interact with their preferred art form. Consequently, musicians within different musical genres (classical, jazz, traditional, popular) demonstrate both commonalities and also biases in the ways that they interpret musical ‘creativity’.

Notwithstanding any such differences, there is evidence that creative processes can have transferability within and across art forms. Furthermore, engaging in artistic behaviour facilitates development within and across underlying neurological structures, thus maximising human potential.

Graham WELCH教授
Graham WELCH教授是英國倫敦大學教育學院音樂教育系主任兼人文藝術學院院長。他是ISME研究委員會的前主席，也是社會心理學研究音樂與音樂教育(SEMPRE) 的國際主席。他曾在世界各地大學擔任客席教授，又曾發表許多關於音樂教育及發展的文章。

簡介
我們對音樂的感覺、學習和掌握是我們人性的一部份。這樣的音樂藝術行為有助我們去感受人類的七情六慾。英國數間大學正共同研究一個關於音樂「表演者」的人生閱歷與其對音樂的認同認知之間的關係。結果顯示不同類型音樂表演者對音樂創意活動既有共通之處，也有不同的偏見。不管怎樣，不同藝術媒體可互換，總之藝術行為可打通神經，啟發人類潛能。