Irmgard Merkt (born 7 April 1946) is a German music educator.
Life
Born in Munich, Merkt first studied opera singing and later music for the teaching profession at grammar schools at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. After several years of teaching at grammar schools in the Ruhr area, she became a research assistant to her future doctoral supervisor Werner Probst at the in 1978.
In 1983, she obtained her
doctorate with the dissertation
Deutsch-türkischer Musikunterricht in der Bundesrepublik. Ein Situationsbericht
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From 1979 to 1989, Merkt was an academic councillor at the University of Dortmund in the field of music education for disabled people. From 1989 to 1991, she was a professor in the subject of media education - with a focus on music in social education - at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and from 1991 to 2014, she was a professor in music education and music therapy in education and rehabilitation with disabilities at the Technical University of Dortmund. In the years 2004 to 2007 and 2012 to 2014, she was dean of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences.
Merkt is still working today (as of March 2021) in education and training in the areas of intercultural and inclusive music education and adult music education for people with disabilities.
Project Musik und Inklusion
InTakt, Europa InTakt und Förderpreis InTakt
From 1998, Merkt initiates the InTakt continuing education programme at TU Dortmund University as well as the in-service training programme Zertifikat InTakt. 2003 sees the start of the international series of events Europa InTakt, which reaches a climax with "Europs InTakt 2010"
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Dortmund Model: Musik (DOMO)
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Network Culture and Inclusion
Merkt has a leadership function in the "Network Culture and Inclusion"
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Awards
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2020 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
[Bundesverdienstorden für Frauen in Kultur und Medien. Grütters: "Vorbildliches Engagement für faire Chancen"
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Publications and editorship (selection)
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Musik – Vielfalt – Integration – Inklusion. Musikdidaktik für die eine Schule. Regensburg: ConBrio. (2019)
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Die Künste und die Kunst der Inklusion. In Gerland, Juliane (ed.) Kultur Inklusion Forschung. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz (2017)
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Schriftenreihe Netzwerk Kultur und Inklusion. Juliane Gerland, Susanne Keuchel, Irmgard Merkt (ed.) Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft (2016–2019)
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vol. 1 Kunst, Kultur und Inklusion. Teilhabe am künstlerischen Arbeitsmarkt ;
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vol. 2 Kunst, Kultur und Inklusion. Ausbildung für künstlerische Tätigkeit von und mit Menschen mit Behinderung ;
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vol. 3 Kunst, Kultur und Inklusion. Menschen mit Behinderung in Presse, Film und Fernsehen: Darstellung und Berichterstattung ;
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Inklusion, kulturelle Teilhabe und Musik. In Bernatzky, Günther and Gunter Kreutz (ed.) Musik und Medizin. Chancen für Therapie, Prävention und Bildung. Vienna: Springer (2015)
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Authentizität und Adaption. Aspekte interkultureller Musikerziehung: Rückblick und Ausblick In Alge, Barbara and Oliver Krämer (ed.) Beyond Borders: Welt – Musik – Pädagogik. Musikpädagogik und Ethnomusikologie im Diskurs. Augsburg: Wißner (2013)
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Deutsch-türkische Musikpädagogik in der Bundesrepublik. Ein Situationsbericht. Berlin: express edition (1983)
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Banjo Liederbuch. Geck, Martin and Irmgard Merkt. With illustrations by F. W. Bernstein. Stuttgart: Klett (1982)
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