Enabling Music Students’ Well-Being through Regular Zoom Cohort Chats During the Covid-19 Crises
Year: 2020
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The required shift to online music teaching due to COVID-19 resulted in Teacher Education music students needing different approaches for well-being supported through innovative uses of technology for community, collaboration and connection. Using Samaras’ five elements of self-study, two music education instructors in an Australian conservatoire explored the results of regular, weekly live-stream cohort chats (i.e., Wednesday Zoom Café) when facing an unprecedented crisis. Based on the findings, the innovative use of a Zoom café can result when technology is used to: support music student well-being; support organizational design, facilitate clarity of communication; and, create connection, identity and community through socially-constructed technology application. Using these approaches, live-streamed cohort chats can support pre-service music students’ positive wellbeing during a time of unprecedented lockdown and consequential social isolation.
Authors: Carol Johnson, Brad Merrick
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3119359131