12 June 2026 |
Reported by Prof Mignon van Vreden On Friday 22 May, the second-year BMus Music Education students staged the annual toddler production, The Lost Melody / Die Verlore Wysie. Both performances were fully booked and thoroughly enjoyed by preschoolers, teachers, and...
07 May 2026 |
This study by Prof Mignon van Vreden, published in March in Perspectives in Education, addresses the need to integrate education for sustainable development (ESD) into music teacher education using the Green Songs Project, an undergraduate service-learning project in...
07 October 2025 |
Reported by Prof Mignon van Vreden The Conservatory came alive during the last week of August as the final-year Music Education students in the BMus programme, guided by Prof Mignon van Vreden and Prof Ewie Erasmus, hosted the annual Mmino Fest. This eisteddfod was a...
13 August 2025 |
Dr Jaco Meyer travelled to Australia at the beginning of July to attend two conferences. The first was the World Congress on Positive Psychology of the International Positive Psychology Association in Brisbane where he made a poster presentation on...
10 April 2025 |
Prof Mignon van Vreden is not only a beloved lecturer in Music Education in the diploma and degree programmes, but she has also been the programme manager for the BMus programme for more than five years now. This position has posed many challenges during the years,...
20 November 2024 |
Prof Ewie Erasmus [above, left] and Prof Liesl van der Merwe [right] were the guest editors of a special edition of the International Journal of Education & the Arts on positive psychology and music education that was published earlier this year. Eleven of the...