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About the MIE Research Center
The MIE Research Center is a full-fledged research facility based at New England Conservatory. Responsible for coordinating national efforts such as the Learning Laboratory School Network and Music-In-Education National Consortium, the MIE Research Center plays host to annual networking conferences for Learning Through Music specialists, artist-teachers, educational researchers, policy makers, school leaders, and arts organizations across the U.S. The MIERC publishes the Journal for Learning Through Music triannually, and also serves as the support center for the Music-In-Education Concentration program at NEC. The MIERC has been the recipient many times of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). While many of the MIERC's support staff are research interns participating in the MIE Concentration Program, the Center serves a unique and important role as a training ground for future musician-action researchers. Under the leadership of Larry Scripp, the Resaerch Center leads the Learning Laboratory School Network, a network of schools in over six states dedicated to the evolving role of music and musicians in research-based music programs in publich schools and funded by the Federal Department of Education.
Current Projects
MIERC Reseach Interns are currently helping to evaluate the efficacy and impact of research initiatives by the San Francisco Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
MIERC Leadership
The MIERC is led arts education advocate, musician, and researcher Dr. Larry Scripp, who has composed many works in the past for musical theater, modern dance, film, and children's animation, and directed a variety of community orchestras and contemporary performing groups in the Boston area. As a research scholar and consultant for arts in education in the past, he has investigated artistic development in children at Harvard Project Zero from 1982-1994 and assessment of arts and general education programs from 1985 to 1995. He has designed and carried out research studies investigating young children's symbolic development, musical perception, musical representation, giftedness, and the development of computer-supported curricula in the arts and humanities. Much of his past research focused on developing 'authentic' measures of students' learning and development in the arts.
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