Short biography

Konstantina Dogani is Senior Lecturer in Music Education at the School of Early Childhood Education, Department of Aesthetic Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.  She has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate music education courses as well as in-service courses in Greece and in England.  She has also worked as a preschool teacher in public and private schools and as a music teacher with children from preschool to secondary school age.  She obtained her PhD in Music Education from the University of Exeter, School of Education, UK, her MA in Music Education from the University of Reading, UK and holds a degree in Preschool Education from the University of Athens, Department of Preschool Education.  She has performed as a piano soloist in Greece and abroad and has composed music for children and puppetry plays.  She participated in the Music Education Network (meNet)-Comenius-3 Network, funded by the European Commision’s Programme Socrates-Comenius [http://menet.mdw.ac.at].  Her research interests involve Music Education in Preschool age, Music teacher education, Musical creativity.

Selected publications include:
Dogani, K. (2012) Music in Preschool Education: Interaction between child and teacher, Athens: Gutenberg (in Greek).
Dogani, K. (2008) Using reflection as a tool for training generalist teachers to teach music, Music Education Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2008, 125-139.

Dogani, K. (2008) Learning and Teaching Music in Greece: a field in constant flow. I. Malmberg & C. Wimmer (Eds) Communicating Diversity: Musik lehren und lernen in Europa - To learn and to teach music in Europe, Augsburg: Wissner, pp. 129-136.

Dogani, K. (2004) Teachers’ Understanding of Composing in the Primary Classroom, Music Education Research, Vol. 6, No 3, November.

Rodríguez-Quiles y García, J.A. & Dogani, K. (2011) Music in schools across Europe: analysis, interpretation and guidelines for music education in the framework of the European Union. Airi, Liimets and Marit, Mäesalu (eds.) Music Inside and Outside the School, Series: Baltische Studien zur Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaft- Volume 21, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 95-122.