Music education
Enhancing the teaching and learning of music across all educational settings
Our multi-dimensional research is informed by specialist knowledge of teaching and learning inside traditional, popular and contemporary music. We combine methodologies of education with musicological, sociological, psychological, historical, and cultural studies.
We examine music teaching and learning from a range of perspectives, in all contexts, through the various levels of primary and secondary school and university systems to studio teaching, community music activity, informal learning, music therapy and music in notated and non-notated traditions. Our specialists in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples music are working side by side those researching digital music and the technologies utilised in the music education of school students.
Our academic staff also bring expertise in wider teacher education fields, such as:
Their work is widely published in books and major international journals in music education, technology, music psychology, teacher education, popular music, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies.
Exploring the operational aspects of global digital music practices.
Exploring musical and educational resources and strategies used with groups of musically-untrained children and adults.
Curriculum is the content taught, while pedagogy is seen as the way in which it is taught. Pedagogy and curriculum thus blend together as the understanding between how to teach and why we teach in a certain way.
The scientific practice of how and why learning occurs.
Creating original pieces within musical concepts and components.
As a process for a transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development, mentoring can be seen as a form of leadership.
