Dr Regina Saltari is a Lecturer at UCL Institute of Education. She currently leads the Module of Philosophy in Music Education and is involved in the PGCE course working with future school music teachers. Her main research interest is centred on children’s playground musical games in various contexts. During her doctoral
studies, she carried out extensive ethnographic research on the culture of Greek children’s musical games in school playgrounds and applied a multimodal analysis of such performances. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research into the potential of using musical games as a means of intercultural communication amongst refugee child populations. She holds a PhD in Music Education (Ionian University), a Master of Arts in Music Education (IoE UCL), a BA in English Language and Literature (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), and a Violin Diploma (State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece). She has worked as a music teacher and violin tutor in schools in London and in Greece.
special interests
Children's playground musical games, multimodal analyses of musical games, ethnographic research in music education, musical games and refugee studies, music curricula
thesis title
Children's musical games in the Greek school playgrounds: An ethnographic study
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