Fostering transformative professionalism through curriculum changes within a Bachelor of Music

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Carey, G
Coutts, L
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Westerlund, Heidi

Gaunt, Helena

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2021
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This chapter provides an outline of one university’s response to developing music students’ transformative professionalism within its Bachelor of Music degree. Each Bachelor of Music degree analysed during the audit featured varying mandatory requirements in relation to performance, history, music theory, and aural courses, as well as different combinations of non-mandatory courses. Higher music education has traditionally prepared graduates for performance/creation-based professions. Transformative pedagogy also removes traditional restrictions over where learning occurs, and challenges the typical teacher–student hierarchies found in formal education contexts, by placing the student experience at the heart of learning activities. Bachelor of Music led to a purposeful development of transformative professionalism through four broad categories of courses: performance practice; music literature/research; mobility degrees; and professional practice. One initiative within Global Local is a community service-learning programme that focuses on fostering meaningful collaborations between universities and Indigenous Australian communities.

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Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education: A Changing Game

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© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Heidi Westerlund and Helena Gaunt; individual chapters, the contributors. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence.

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Music education

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Carey, G; Coutts, L, Fostering transformative professionalism through curriculum changes within a Bachelor of Music, Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education: A Changing Game, 2021, pp. 42-58

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