Zoe Dionyssiou

Zoe Dionyssiou

Field:

Music Education

Rank:

Associate Professor

Government Gazette:

ΦΕΚ 1767/τ. Γ'/ 4-10-2019

Tel. number:

26610-87503

Email:

dionyssiou@ionio.gr, dionyssiou@gmail.com

www:

https://music.ionio.gr/gr/department/staff/255-dionyssiou/

Office hours:

Friday, 10.00-11.00 a.m.

Courses

[MUS314] Music Education Theory and Practice

[MUS329] Pedagogy Ι: Issues – Ideas in Education Sciences

[MUS407] Methodology of Music Teaching

[MUS702] Intercultural Music Education

[MUS901] Research Seminar in Music Education and Psychology of Music

[MUS1001] Research Project  Ι

Director of the MA Postgraduate Programme “Music Education”/ “Music Pedagogy in Schools and the Community”, https://music.ionio.gr/pedagogy/

Studies / Education

2002: PhD, Music Education, Institute of Education University of London

1995: MA, Music Education, Institute of Education University of London

1993:  Ptychion, Department of Early Childhood Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Research / Artistic Interests

Dionyssiou, Ζ. (2020). “Customary folk songs as a recourse for an education to the acoustic environment”. In Α. Mniestris, Κ. Paparrigopoulos, & D. Sarris (Ed.), Proceeding of the 5^th Conference on Acoustic Ecology “Sound, Experience, Education” (pp. 111-120). Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology & Department of Primary Education of Messene. http://sound.sch.gr/acouexpedu/

Dionyssioy, Z. (2019). “Enhancing childrenʼs musicality in the early years through intercultural music education: the musicality protocol of the MusiChild project”. In L. Stamou (Ed.), Dialogue and Advances in Music Education (pp. 109-132). Thessaloniki: Greek Society for Music Education (G.S.Μ.Ε.).

Etmektsoglou, I. Dionyssiou, Z. & Mniestris, A. (2019). A Sound-based education: For Listening, Appreciating, and Co-creating The Soundscapes We Live In. Erasmus+ “The Soundscape in which we live”. Corfu: Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory (EPHMEE), Department of Music Studies, Ionian University.      

Kotsopoulou, D. & Dionyssiou, Z. (2019). Informal music learning in three Romani “mahalades”: Larisa, Farsala, Nea Heraclia Serron. Musicpedagogics, 17, 107-120 (in Greek).Dionyssiou, Ζ. (2018). Communicative musicality in Greek traditional singing games, Musicpedagogics, 16, 49-68 (in Greek).

Dionyssiou, Ζ. (2018). Communicative musicality in Greek traditional singing games, Musicpedagogics, 16, 49-68 (in Greek).

Dionyssiou, Z. (2018). Research on childrenʼs folk songs in Corfu, Corfiot Annals, 12: 65-78 (Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Ionian Islands, Vol. 5 (Music, Language, Cultural tradition, Ionian Diaspora). Society for Corfiot Studies (in Greek).

Anselmi, P., Dionyssiou, Z., Epelde, L. A., Etmektsoglou, I., Hughes, P. S., Pieridou Skoutella, A. (2017). Early Childhood Music Education in the Mediterranean: Raising children’s musicality, evaluating music learning and raising teachers’ preparation. Erasmus+ K2: “Early Childhood Music Education in the Mediterranean”, Nicosia: Cyprus Centre for the Research and Study of Music (C.C.R.S.M.).

Dionyssiou, Z. & Fytika, A. (2017). “Musical concerts for young children in Greece”. International Journal of Community Music, 10(3), 317-326, doi: 10.1386/ijcm.10.3.317_1

Dionyssiou, Z. (2016). Basic concepts of orality in traditional or folk music: Traditional music and interculutral approaches in music education. In M. Kokkidou & Z. Dionyssiou (Eds.), Music Literacy: Formal and Informal Ways of Music Teaching-Learning (Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education)  (pp. 176-185). Thessaloniki: GSME.

Dionyssiou, Z. (2011). “Music-learning and the formation of local identity through the Philharmonic Society wind bands of Corfu”. Στο L. Green (Επιμ.), Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices across Cultures (pp. 142-155). Indiana University Press.

Research  / Artistic  Interests

Music in early childhood education

Teaching of Greek traditional/ folk music

Music games and singing games

Community music

Intercultural music education

Music and interartistic dialogues

Development of music education material for educational use

Professional  Career

2018-present: Associate Professor in Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University.

2011-2018: Assistant Professor in Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University.

2006-2011: Lecturer in Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University.

2002-2006: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University

2004-2005: Teaching Staff at the Department of Folk and Popular Music, Technological Educational Institution of Epirus, Greece.

1994-2002: Teacher in Kindergarten and Primary Greek Community Schools in London (part time placement).