Tama Karena - English and Music’s interdisciplinary links - Hong Kong

In this episode, I am talking to Tama Karena. Tama is a Director of Music at an international school here in Hong Kong and has 30 years of experience in the classroom, twenty of which have been spent in international schools. My chat with him is the second conversation in a series of discussions designed to learn more about secondary subjects and their possible interdisciplinary links with English.

My intrigue in having these chats is seeing whether there is possibilities for connections across subjects that are at least shared in passing during class or actually and more excitingly, the basis of complex interdisciplinary units.

We discuss:

• The products, processes or texts that are at the heart of studying Music

• The deep concepts that an expert in Music uses to make meaning from these experiences

• The potential links that Music and English share from a conceptual or disciplinary point of view

• And lastly, possible projects that students could work on to better understand both subjects, simultaneously.

Thanks so much to Tama for speaking with his customary soul and passion for the subject and allowing me to consider the less obvious connections that are two subjects share.

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