This paper reports on first-year conservatoire students' reflections their one-to-one performance learning through a reflective journal. One-to-one lessons have been central part of the education performing musicians, although place in twenty-first-century is not beyond challenge. Recent research has indicated that this model potential for students to rely heavily teachers feedback and more autonomous might benefit progress. Students' journal responses revealed three main themes: development...

Abstract This paper draws together academic and policy literature around the value of a culturally, linguistically racially diverse (CLRD) teacher workforce in Australia. While Australia’s population is becoming more diverse, teaching significantly less so, with far fewer teachers born overseas and/or speaking language other than English at home. seeks to address some reasons for this lack diversity, lived experiences from backgrounds, including unique contributions CLRD make their school...

Conference attendance is a feature of contemporary academic work and an accepted way building identities networks through the dissemination promotion ideas, achievements research. However, our personal experiences have caused us to problematise traditional conference consider alternatives which mitigate its associated problems yet achieve aims. In this paper, we use collaborative autoethnography engage in inquiry about roles conferences, their inhabited notions representation, membership...

This paper reports on a multi-institutional project using reflection and collaboration to enable one-to-one music teachers improve their professional skills foster deep learning in students. The benefits of student teacher development are reported depth within higher education. Less researched is relevance the tertiary context. comprised several initiatives around activities for reflective exercises outcomes indicate potential transformative approaches settings. would appear be dependent two...

There is substantial evidence in the literature to support claim that teachers’ values and beliefs have a powerful effect on their teaching practice, these shape students’ experiences of music learning. However, little attention has been paid forces by which are shaped, and, more importantly, how positive teacher dispositions may be cultivated developed through education. Drawing methodological devices narrative inquiry, Bourdieu’s concept habitus as an interpretive tool, this article...

Many Australian young people experience mental health concerns, academic and study-related stresses, socio-economic pressures. Phenomenological research conducted among primary secondary schoolteachers in four states investigated how teachers manage student wellbeing concerns pressures stresses. Findings identify key stresses that affect students’ performance respond to these progress learning. Creating space, finding margin, mitigating reducing while upholding rigour, are the salient...

This paper seeks to explore the lived experiences of teacher educators working in midst current tumultuous and highly regulatory policy landscape. The will briefly outline politics policies that have profoundly shaped educators' work Australia over past 10 years. We write from our own experiences, as three actively-teaching educators, with a diverse nontraditional student population regional Queensland. seek illuminate these through series narrative (re)presentations, drawing attention what...

The authors investigated the benefits and pitfalls of social media use for schoolteachers. included opportunities teacher agency, a resource wellbeing, an efficacious communications marketing tool schools. However, along with these were associated including challenges to esteem threats authenticity in profession. This study employs hermeneutic phenomenology, investigating teachers’ lived experiences world media, generates theory around how teachers make meaning contexts. A key finding this...

In the past decade, informal learning has become a significant feature on music education landscape. Largely inspired by Lucy Green's seminal texts, How Popular Musicians Learn (2002) and Music...

The past decade has seen an intensification of the external measurement both quality and quantity research, in Australia, other parts Western world. This led to a growing interest ways which institutions develop research environment that maximises activity, particularly areas outputs doctoral completions. Traditional modes supervision have come under increasing scrutiny, with many identifying need for students utilise wide range resources, including supervisor/supervisors. Despite recent...