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Wheeler, Barbara: WMFT Proceedings of the Education Symposium
The results of the WEK (Wigram-Erdonmez-Kortegaard) survey were
compiled by Erdonmez and presented at the 7 th World Congress in Vitoria,
Spain. The results of the survey were also published in the WFMT
Newsletter , vol VII, 1994. It was also published as a Monograph (May 1994.)
In 1996 Denise Erdonmez compiled a Directory of training courses
throughout the world for the 8 th World Congress in Hamburg, Germany. She
approached the country co-ordinators and asked them to circulate the onepage
summary sheet giving details of the music therapy courses in each
country. There were a number of difficulties in reaching all courses, for
example, the details of courses in Germany arrived too late for inclusion.
Likewise the information about courses in Japan came in after the Congress
date, and the courses could not be listed.
At the World Congress in Hamburg (1996), there were two Round
Table discussions on music therapy training. One was entitled Basic
training, and the other (that Helen Odell Miller and Denise Erdonmez Grocke
chaired) was on Advanced level training. A recommendation of the
Advanced Training Round Table was that fundamental concepts needed to
be clarified, in particular, the difference between Basic and Advanced
levels of training, and the difference between Generic and Specialist
training.
The Education Commission was broadened to include members from
the various geographical regions of the world. The Commission members
1996-1999 were:
Connie Isenberg-Grzeda (Canada)
Mayra Hugo (Uruguay)
Fumio Kuribayashi (Japan)
Mechtild Langenberg (Germany)
Marilyn Sandness (USA)
Helen Tyler (UK).
In preparing for this symposium, the following objectives emerged:-
1) to establish Model Guidelines for Training courses world-wide, at
entry level to the profession.
2) to address 'advanced' levels of training (i.e., beyond entry level)
3) to create a forum for discussion and debate of education and
training issues.
In order to address these issues a Model was developed to assist in the
discussions and in compiling the Guidelines.
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