What experiences of creative arts education could foster the future-proof leadership skills needed for the next generation of artists and musicians to thrive? What features of an (inclusive) creative education environment could meet or exceed these needs? This study day includes discussion sessions, presentations and responses to enable conversations about music education, participatory arts and inclusion.
Participants include postgraduate students and researchers (established and early career), with contributions from invited specialist education researchers, Rebecca Berkley (University of Reading) and Guro Gravem Johansen (Ingesund Music College at Karlstad University), this study day builds on regular meetings since September 2022 of the Musical Situations study group. With research expertise including music psychology, participatory music arts and health, and performance research, our discussions begin from the shared view that situated communication and interpersonal relationships are of key significance to creative arts education.
We warmly welcome all those with interests in the topic from relevant intersecting domains, such as: the impact of digital and learning technologies, including creative-arts specific generative technologies; non-institutional/marginal community arts experiences and expertise; current school classroom arts education practices; current HE practice in Music and related arts programme delivery; EDI concerns in both HEIs and creative industries.
Broad aims for the day
- A chance to bring together researchers who are concerned with development of new ideas for arts (music) education training and skills that generate inclusive knowledge generation and artistic practice.
- Enable and benefit from contributions to the topic from a range of perspectives through PGR and ERC participation
- Come away with a better understanding of where ‘music’ education training and ‘arts’ education training currently sit in relation to one another, and who are the stakeholders in this discourse
For more info or to let us know that you’d like to join for some/all of the day, please email Nikki or Una.
Schedule
10.00 – 10.15am – Welcome and intro to the theme of ‘creative arts education future’ (Nikki and Una)
10.15 – 11am – Micro-updates / introductions – a chance to share what research-related activities people have been up to in the past 2-4 weeks (Invitation to everyone)
11.00 – 11.45am – Researcher development – the proposal writing treadmill! Informal sharing from Nikki, Christian and Una about recent experiences preparing grant applications. Discussion with everyone about how this type of writing activity relates to all-round professional researcher development. https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers-professional-development/about-the-vitae-researcher-development-framework
11.45 – 12.45 pm – Lunch
12.45 – 1.15 pm – Return to the theme of ‘creative arts education future’ with 3-minute pitches: If you could change one single thing about your own music education experiences/background, what would it be? (Invitation to everyone.)
1.15 – 2pm – Rebecca Berkley (Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading, UK) is an outstanding choral director. Her current research examines the significance (and challenges) of developing fluency through musical literacies to support inclusive practice in formal and informal music education, with a focus on professional practice and leadership training for musicians working in education. Rebecca led the BERA-funded research project, Musicianship for Teachers, teaching classroom musicianship to general primary classroom instructors. She is the director of the Sing for Pleasure Musicianship for Singers programme.
2 – 2.45 pm – Guro Gravem Johansen (Professor of Music Education at Ingesund Music College at Karlstad University) specialises in instrumental practising, and learning and teaching in jazz and improvised music. She is Editor-in-Chief for the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Research in Music Education, and wrote the book “Children’s guided participation in jazz improvisation: A study of the ‘Improbasen’ learning centre’ (Routledge, 2021).
2.45 – 3pm – Break
3.15 – 4pm – Discussion
4pm – Close
