A5033617912- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Music History and Culture
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Music Education and Analysis
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Musicians’ Health and Performance
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Theater, Performance, and Music History
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Religious Education and Schools
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
University of Kent
2016-2025
Royal Holloway University of London
2016
University of Reading
2014
This paper focuses on academic development for Syrian academics in exile. Academic first emerged resource-rich, global North environments including the UK, USA, Australia, and Scandinavia nearly 50 years ago as reported by Gosling (International Journal Development, 14(1):5–18, 2009), majority of research studies this field focus activities North, institutional settings. Yet resource-poor, [post-] conflict post-colonial contexts face different challenges circumstances, have needs. extends...
Free Aleppo University (FAU) and Sham are higher education institutions established in 2015 the non-Assad regime-controlled areas of Northern Syria. Despite ongoing conflict, displacement academic staff, damage to infrastructure severe resource constraints, these universities continue provide access learners region, including thousands internally displaced persons. 'Modernisation capacity building for academics research, teaching curriculum development' was identified as a shared priority...
We introduce the special issue entitled 'Beyond academic development as institutional practice: advancing community-led approaches' and offer critical commentary that advances concept practice of community development. Through repeated readings 10 articles from diverse contexts included in this issue, we draw out four main themes highlighting why how communities beyond single institutions support First, revise initial conceptual framework 'academic (ACD)', which focused call for papers,...
Abstract Since the first degree programme in popular music opened 1990, academic field of higher education (HPME) has grown exponentially United Kingdom. The current provision includes 128 programmes offered by 47 institutions including Russell Group universities, specialist conservatoires and private providers. majority programmes, however, are found within ‘post-92’ institutions, reflecting political cultural conditions from which emerged. This article critically appraises field’s...
Since its beginnings in the late 1970s, punk culture has been associated with counter-mainstream ideology and anti-institutional antagonism. In particular, formal education criticised for sustaining oppressive social conceptual orders behavioural norms. Drawing on literature interviews, this paper focuses experiences of higher teachers who self-identify as punks, considers how they negotiate reconcile their subcultural academic identities practice. The findings reveal that participants'...
This article offers a model to assist music teachers in reflecting on their teaching practice relation aims and values. Initially developed as workshop aid for use education MA program, the is intended provoke critical engagement with two prominent tensions education: that between mastery enjoyment, tradition innovation. The experiential theoretical bases of are discussed, literature relating issues reviewed. design application then outlined detail, explored through perspectives an...
Abstract This article contributes to the growing research base in Turkish popular music studies with a focus on indie from Istanbul. It situates this within Turkey's contemporary social, cultural and political landscapes, relation country's historical narrative. Istanbul musicians’ responses 2013 Gezi protests suggest that indie's counter-hegemonic aesthetics are being explored engaged alignment ‘Third Republicanism’, an emerging vision for Turkey holds liberalism human rights as its core...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to generate insight into the experiences Syrian academics in exile Turkey; and second, explore approaches collaboration community building among with counterparts international academic community. Design/methodology/approach study employs a hybrid visual-autobiographical narrative methodology, embedded within large group process (LGP) design. Findings are presented two phases: first phase presents thematic analysis data, revealing common...
The term 'large group process' (LGP) refers to a range of participatory approaches community engagement, geared towards exploring and/or identifying solutions shared issues and problems, planning change. Primarily used for applied purposes, they can be also as method inductive inquiry in social research, particularly within action research projects. In this methodological paper, I outline critically evaluate an LGP design implemented project focused on the needs Syrian academics exile....
Prior to 2011, public universities and private institutions in Syria were the main sources of knowledge skills training for industry agriculture. Due ongoing conflict humanitarian crisis however, country's education system has been decimated at all levels, with disastrous effects nation's base provision. To address these circumstances, strategies methods effectively re-skilling up-skilling agricultural workforce inside are urgently needed. Traditional face-to-face models difficult implement...
Music education institutions have played a prominent role in mediating national identity the Republic of Turkey since its founding 1923. Initially tasked with suppressing Ottoman heritage, their nature and status changed ascendance political Islam, when interest Turkey’s past grew Western aesthetics elite were increasingly contested. While music continues to be site construction Turkey, no studies focus on ideological climate era Justice Development Party, who heralded ‘New Turkey’ rooted...
This article evaluates a collaboration between social work academics and educational psychologists using Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP) to support the development of students' communication interpersonal skills. VERP is strengths-based model reflective practice professional that involves specific method video reflection enhance individuals' capacity for 'attuned interactions'. An adapted was implemented with first year UK-based undergraduate students during 'Readiness Direct...
This paper aims to provide insight and guidance for developing leading interdisciplinary collaborative writing groups when working with researchers in Centre–Periphery contexts. The participants this study were exiled Syrian academics domiciled Turkey project their UK-Turkey-based academic mentors UK-based workshop leaders. at the publication stage of project. In exploring processes involved such groups, identified a key dimension successful – that relational expertise. found authorial...
In technical and theoretical terms, this article addresses the fading-out of pre-recorded sound in theatre. Using models listening attention, with particular reference to how silence is constituted, it attempts understand fade-outs can interrupt or complicate experience theatre proposes solutions problem various dramaturgical contexts. This involves a survey sounds fade other artistic acoustic contexts existing model dissolve fields synthesis design artificial reverb. It ends an attempt...