Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos is Associate Professor on Music Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Thessaly. Panagiotis received his MA and Ph.D. in music education from Reading University (UK). He has taught music education courses at the University of the Aegean, and was previously Lecturer of music Education at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has presented his work in many international research conferences and symposia, and has published articles in international publications and leading research journals (Resonance, Psychology of Music, Philosophy of Music Education Review, British Journal of Music Education, Action Criticism and Theory for Music Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory). He is active as a mandolinist, recording as a session musician. Since 1996 Panagiotis has led many experimental educational workshops that focus on collective free improvisation with variable forces, in a wide range of different venues and contexts – notable, among those has been his collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens. He is currently serving as co-chair of ISPME (International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education). Main research interests include: children’s musical improvisation, ethnographic approaches to children’s musical creativity, socio-cultural perspectives in music education, improvisation as a wider socio-political form of musical practice. 

E-mail: pankanel@gmail.com

Selected research publications

    • Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2011). In Pursuit of Musical Freedom Through Free Improvisation: A Bakhtinian provocation to music education. In M. A. Peters & J. White (eds.), Bakhtinian Pedagogy: Opportunities and challenges for research, policy and practice in education across the globe. New York: Peter Lang. 
    • Kanellopoulos, P. A. & Nakou, I. (2011). Playing improvisations, ‘playing’ culture: Music games as a means for creative engagement with the museum world – a case study. In Katy Beale (ed.), Museums at Play: Games, Interaction and Learning. Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc.
    • Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2010) Envisioning Autonomy through Improvising and Composing: Castoriadis visiting creative music education practice. Educational Philosophy and Theory, doi: 20AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00638.x
    • Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2010). Towards a Sociological Perspective on Researching Children’s Creative Music Making Practices: an Exercise in Self-Consciousness. In R. Wright (Ed.), Sociology and Music Education (pp. 115-138). London: Ashgate.
    • Wright, R. & Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2010). Informal music learning, improvisation and teacher education. British Journal of Music Education, 27(1), 71-87.
    • Κανελλόπουλος, Π. Α. (2010). Η εθνογραφική μελέτη των τρόπων που τα παιδιά δημιουργούν μουσική: μεθοδολογικά ζητήματα, εκπαιδευτικές προεκτάσεις. Στο Μ. Πουρκός & Μ. Δαφέρμος (Επιμ.), Ποιοτική Έρευνα στην Ψυχολογία και την Εκπαίδευση: Επιστημολογικά, Μεθοδολογικά και Ηθικά Ζητήματα. Αθήνα: Τόπος. 
    • Κανελλόπουλος, Π. Α. (2010). Προσεγγίσεις στην έννοια και την παιδαγωγική σημασία του μουσικού αυτοσχεδιασμού: σχεδίασμα μιας πρότασης. Μουσικός Λόγος: Μουσικολογική Επιθεώρηση του Τμήματος Μουσικών Σπουδών του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου, τ. 9, 5-36.
    • Κανελλόπουλος, Π. Α. & Τσαφταρίδης, Ν. (Επιμ.) (2010). Η Τέχνη στην Εκπαίδευση – Η Εκαπίδευση στην Τέχνη: Εξερευνήσεις του Δημιουργικού Ρόλου της Τέχνης στην Εκπαίδευση. Αθήνα: Νήσος.
    • Κανελλόπουλος, Π. Α. (2009). Μουσικός Αυτοσχεδιασμός και Μουσική Εκπαίδευση: Σχέσεις και (εν)τάσεις. Στο Ξ. Παπαπαναγιώτου (επιμ.), Ζητήματα Μουσικής Παιδαγωγικής (σσ. 239-264). Θεσσαλονίκη: Ε.Ε.Μ.Ε..
    • Κανελλόπουλος, Π. Α. (2009). Μια Κοινωνικο-πολιτισμική Προσέγγιση στη Μελέτη της Παιδικής Μουσικής Έκφρασης και Δημιουργικότητας. Στο Μ. Πουρκός (Επιμ.), Τέχνη, Παιχνίδι, Αφήγηση: Ψυχολογικές και Ψυχοπαιδαγωγικές Διαστάσεις (σσ. 311-355). Αθήνα: Τόπος.
    • Kanellopoulos, P. A.  (2008). ‘For Us It Is Important, But To Other People It Might Seem Foolish’: Conceptualizing ‘Child Music’. In B. A. Roberts (ed.), Sociological Explorations: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education (pp. 217-236). St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: The Binder’s Press.
    • Kanellopoulos, P. Α. (2007). Musical Improvisation as Action: An Arendtian Perspective. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 6(3): 97-127. http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Kanellopoulos6_3.pdf
    • Kanellopoulos, P. Α. (2007). Children’s early reflections on improvised music-making as the wellspring of musico-philosophical thinking. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 15(2), 119-141.