Current Institution: Griffith University
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at Griffith University
Fellowship Duration: 2012 - 2013
More than twenty years ago, as part of the Dawkins reform agenda for tertiary education, conservatoire across Australia were amalgamated with universities bringing together two very different cultures: the former with its intense focus on performance at the undergraduate level; the latter focussed equally intensely on research at the honours, masters and doctoral levels. Significant progress has been made in merging the cultures since that time, yet the traditional form of research supervision remains a mismatch for preparing researchers in the conservatoire context, particularly in the area of performance. More engaging approaches to doctoral education are needed to increase doctoral completion rates and more sophisticated approaches to managing the quality of learning within doctoral programs are required.
The fellowship will address an under-explored area of pedagogy within higher education: the form and quality of interactions between supervisors, students and the professional music community. The pedagogy of dialogue forums will be the starting point for the purpose of improving the higher research and degree supervision process, reducing reliance on the master-apprentice model of research supervision, developing collaborative approaches to supervision and learning, and creating a new citizenry of music educators. The adoption of dialogue forums is applicable to this field as close, shared interactions between teachers and students are commonplace.
Disciplines: Higher Degree Research Supervision, Practical Music Performance Assessment
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.