An Ogre?! What Adult Learners Say about their Music Teachers

Researcher Rachel Shirley has been looking at the significance of what adult music learners say about their learning experience.  She has uploaded a poster to her Academia.edu page with some informative detail.  You may need to sign up to Academia.edu to be able to download it, so ...

• Join Academia.edu here 
• Read Rachel's poster here!

Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education

Teachers! Lecturers! Tutors!   

Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education

Edited by Elizabeth Haddon, Pamela Burnard

© 2016 – Routledge

 Does this look interesting to you? It does to us!  Anything new on music pedagogy certainly attracts our attention here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

We know that Ruth Slater and former colleagues Christina Guillaumier and Peter Argondizza have contributed a chapter to the book, but the whole volume will be great for our music faculty and people on the PGCert course.

It's released in May - we'll be ordering it!

Publication details here.

Essays on Engaging Music Students (Getting them interested, not hiring them!)

Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy

Morning, everyone! This online collection of essays looks as though it could be quite useful; we're sharing it on here this blog so our academics will be able to retrieve it in future too. There are two volumes now - the second has just been published online.

• Vol.1 http://www.flipcamp.org/engagingstudents/
• Vol.2 http://www.flipcamp.org/engagingstudents2/index.html

More about this project, quoted from the opening page of Vol.1:- 

"Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy presents short essays on the subject of student-centered learning, and serves as an open-access, web-based resource for those teaching college-level classes in music.
The motivation behind the assembly of this collection was drawn in part from our vision for a new format for scholarly communication based upon collaborative and swift peer review. We take our inspiration from hack-a-thons, in which creative solutions to a problem emerge from working intensely together in a collaborative environment for a limited time. Authors received feedback quickly, and the revision process consisted of efficient online interactions with the editorial group. The final result is not only open-access, but open-source. Each essay is licensed to encourage collaboration to continue post-publication, as the essays are distributed, remixed, and hacked in various ways. And the entire volume can be "forked" and used as the basis for new projects or updates to the current project..."  *

Do you have a Diigo account (for saving links "in the cloud")? Karen has a Diigo folder foreducation links - feel free to browse, and you might find other useful stuff! 

*Legal details:- "All contents on this site, unless otherwise stated, are copyright 2013 by the Engaging Students editorial board and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.  This is a FlipCamp project hosted on GitHub Pages"

Talking about teaching music

Dr Munro has given the Whittaker Library two books of conference papers, from the Estonian Academy of Music. It's hard to make conference papers sound zippy and cool, but if you're interested in techniques of teaching, then there's probably a lot here to interest you. (Relax! The papers are printed in Estonian and English.) The Estonian Academy of Music has a department called the Institute of Interpretation Pedagogics, and these papers come from recent conferences about music pedagogy.

• Just type "Estonian Academy of Music" into our

library catalogue's search-engine.

Image by Karin Elizabeth, from Flickr