Management of Santa Maria Orphanage: Children Accompaniment

Santa Maria orphanage is located in Banyuasin District in South Sumatera, which management needed professional advisory. One of the common problems faced by the orphanage is related to children accompaniment. An activity has been designed to improve the capacity and the knowledge of children companions and to enhance children’s comprehension of appropriate and positive behaviors. The activity was done using various methods including lecturing, watching motivational videos, and discussions. The activity involved 13 children companions and 38 orphans in Santa Maria orphanage. The success of the activity was measured using a set of questionnaires distributed to all of the participants, excluding 3 children who were 5 grade of primary school. The result of the questionnaires showed that methods in building children’s characters was considered the most interesting and appropriate topic to be discussed as the topic matched their current needs. Seminar and discussions were also considered effective in delivering the materials and help the participants understand the materials effectively. The activity has successfully enhanced children companions’ comprehension of the most appropriate accompaniment method for children in Santa Maria orphanage. In addition, the result of the questionnaires distributed to the children before and after the activity showed a significant improvement in children’ comprehension of positive behaviors including honesty, social care, creativity, responsibility, discipline, and confidence

Performance Practice Bibliography (1995-1996)

Bibliography of articles published in the field of Historical Performance Practices during 1995-1996

An annotated bibliography of works for solo marimba and electronics published from 1978-2012

The purpose of this study was to create an annotated bibliography of works for solo marimba and electronics published from 1978-2012. Thirty-four compositions were included in the annotated bibliography. For inclusion in this study, works met criteria established as follows: published and commercially available prior to January 1, 2013; supplied with both the score and accompaniment material; written for an individual performer; original composition for marimba; and marimba was the only keyboard percussion instrument. The incidental use of auxiliary percussion instruments did not disqualify a work for inclusion. The information identified in each entry of the annotated bibliography includes title, composer, publisher, range of marimba needed, duration of the work, number of movements, the type of accompaniment, and composer or publisher's notes. Entries in the bibliography were organized alphabetically by composer last name. Each entry contains overviews of the accompaniment and performance techniques, including four-mallet stroke types and difficulty, as well as a musical overview, which covers such topics as specific challenges within the work or mallet selection. The annotations are neither meant to evaluate the musical merits of the works nor make observations or draw conclusions regarding the development of the identified compositions. The information provided in this document is intended to serve as a practical and useful resource for performers and bring broader awareness to the included works. The first chapter includes discussion of the study's limitations and the process for identifying and selecting works included works. The scope of academic research relevant to works for solo marimba and electronics is examined in Chapter Two. The third chapter includes discussion of the annotation formats used in bibliographies of marimba literature that serve as the basis for the annotations contained in this document, as well as defining the terminology contained in these annotations. Chapter Four is the annotated bibliography of published works for solo marimba and electronics. The fifth chapter is a summary of the study followed by conclusions and suggestions for further research. Three appendices index the included works by title, date, and duration

PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system

This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting Paine's (2002) notion of a conversational model of interaction as a ‘complex system’. The machine implementation of PIWeCS is achieved through integrating intelligent agent programming with MAX/MSP. Human input is through a web infrastructure. The conversation is initiated and continued by participants through arrangements and composition based on short performed samples of traditional New Zealand Maori instruments. The system allows the extension of a composition through the electroacoustic manipulation of the source material

Child–parent interaction in relation to road safety education : Part 2 – main report

• Children and young people are particularly vulnerable road users. • Child pedestrian injury rates are poor compared with the rest of Europe. • The factors that impact on children’s road safety and their capability in traffic are numerous, multi-faceted and complex. • • The systematic review conducted by Cattan et al. (2008) as the initial phase of this study shows that: • parents see themselves as being responsible for developing their children’s road safety awareness and skills; • holding hands is the most common road-crossing interaction between parents and children; • adults rarely make use of road-crossing events to give oral instructions; • few parents and children are consistent in their road-crossing behaviour; • roadside training by volunteer parents for groups of children can lead to significant improvements in children’s road safety behaviour; • belief in fate seems to influence the likelihood of parents using restraints, such as seat belts or car seats, with their children; and • parents’ understanding of the child’s perspective in carrying out road safety tasks and their motivation to actively involve their child in making decisions at the roadside can be improved through training. • Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) suggests that the modelling role of parents can make a significant contribution to children’s learning about road use and their development of traffic competence whether or not parents are aware of this. • The main aim of this study was to explore the way parents influence children and young people aged 0–16 years to be safer road users. • This study included children and young people aged 5–16 and parents of children aged 0–16 years old

I am a person : a review of value sensitive design for cognitive declines of ageing, interpreted through the lens of personhood

This paper presents a conception of personhood as both physical and social, and both as radically contingent upon their respective physical and social environments. In the context of age-related cognitive decline, particularly dementia, it supports literature suggesting social personhood is occluded rather than deteriorating with brain function. Value sensitive design (VSD) applied to assistive technologies for people with age-related cognitive decline, has focused upon physical support. The paper concludes that issues of power must be grasped by those in VSD practice in order to reorient VSD in assistive technologies to also support social personhood