Toolkit for teachers and students
The toolkit (REACT output 3) we are hereby making available represents a resource that provides practical advice, guidance and information especially for music performance teachers, as well as for students, on how they can apply the artistic research-based learning approach to their teaching and learning practices. It is thus a pedagogic oriented tool further developing the artistic research-based approach proposed in the book Teaching Music Performance in Higher Music Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research (REACT output 4). While the book sets out different perspectives and examples of how various institutions and professionals explore artistic research in pedagogic contexts, this Toolkit explains how artistic research-based learning works by exploring and explaining each topic making up the three spheres of the proposed model.
This toolkit serves as complementary material to the Virtual Academy of Music performance (REACT output 2), a massive open online course (MOOC) set up with the aim of promoting artistic research-based learning in HMEs as well as responding to the growing need for HMEs to develop teaching approaches that more effectively promote career opportunities for students. After the next section introduces the artistic research-based approach, the different topic groups, distributed across three spheres, are then all described and explained separately. For explanatory purposes, the different perspectives set out in Figure 1 are depicted in a clockwise direction even if the practices themselves are not at all sequential in nature but rather interrelating and interacting.
Mirroring these spheres, this Toolkit is also structured into three main sections. Correspondingly, each section not only explains one of the spheres but also its respective group of topics while introducing readers to the Virtual Academy providing concrete examples related to everyday experiences of teaching music performance. Our aim involves introducing the core content to each topic covered in artistic research-based learning, the Toolkit explaining and describing each topic and the practical examples available in the Virtual Academy.