Literacy & Equality through Gamelan

April / May 2005

Could be better

How I assimilate information

Perhaps longer.  Time goes too quick.

Not much – good all round course

Each session needs to be longer (2 ½ hour)

Longer sessions

All was ok

Can’t think of anything

Social interaction

Damping (an important technique of playing the melody instruments)

What I learned

It would be good to carry on for longer

How to listen, to play the gamelan

New Skills

To accept new challenges in the context of inequalities

Some alternative teaching techniques

Not having an idea such a class existed, came as a surprise

How to memorise the songs

Learned what it is like to be a new learner in a group

To play in a gamelan group

66626363 (numbers serve as reminder of the melody of each piece played)

What its like not to be good at something.  That practice helps.  That sometimes it takes longer to learn something. 

 

What I liked

Storytelling poetry

Learning – Feeling relaxed

Learning something new

Meeting the people

Different approaches to enhance teaching

The group and the interaction.

Coming together as a group and making music.

Everything

The sound of the Gamelan.  The experience of learning something.  Jonathan!

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