Name: From Listening to Growth: Reconnecting Music Education and Contemporary Human Needs
Start: 2026-07-16T10:25:00+0200
End: 2026-07-16T10:50:00+0200

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Join us July 14–16 in Sulmona, Italy, as we share voices and shape the future of popular music, identity, and education.

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From Listening to Growth: Reconnecting Music Education and Contemporary Human Needs

Thursday July 16, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am CEST

Liceo Ovidio - Room 3

This paper reconceptualizes music education through the concept of musickability, understood as the human capacity to build meaningful relationships with music across the lifespan. It argues for re-centering guided listening as an active, transformative, and relational practice that supports emotional, social, and educational development, especially in preadolescence.

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Valentina Chiola

Professor of Music Pedagogy, Conservatorio di Musica "Luisa D'Annunzio" - Pescara

Valentina Chiola is a lecturer in Music Pedagogy at the “Luisa D’Annunzio” Conservatory of Music in Pescara, within the Department of Music Education and Musicological Studies. She has been working in the field of music education since 1985. She completed parallel studies in Piano Performance... Read More →

Thursday July 16, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am CEST
Liceo Ovidio - Room 3 PIAZZA XX SETTEMBRE 13, 67039 SULMONA (AQ)

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