Mapping the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Practices involved in Music and Musicology in Higher Education

 

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In order to map the complex terrain of teaching, learning, and assessment practices involved in music and musicology in higher education internationally, this study's success depends on your efforts, contributions, and participation in the surveys and completion of the module descriptor form which are crucial steps to achieving the project.

With the collective effort of academics, students, and leaders in cultural institutions and communities of practice, this study could help build a cultural map and map the terrain for a framework for teaching, learning, and assessment of musicology and music in higher education. 

It would be wonderful if each musicologist and music lecturer could complete one module descriptor by the 12 October to 14 October 2024, even if you don't wish to participate in the surveys. I intend to continue with this into the future beyond the project.

I have extended the deadline to 14 October for the submission of some surveys and the module descriptor form, with the very latest submissions being accepted up to 18 October 2024 to give everyone a chance to participate.

However, nothing can be achieved without your valuable contributions. 

Ask yourself, where are you on this map? How have you mapped out the musicological and pedagogical terrain for others? In 20 or 50 years time, how can we retrace the historic route you carved out for your teaching, for your students, for your learning, and for your institutions and communities, if your work that matters now and your views and practices on teaching, learning, and assessment become historically invisible. This academic inquiry into your educational practices in the present serves to contribute in part to the whole health of the discipline of musicology (broadly defined) and cultural institutions.

How can we build new routes and guided trails on this musicological journey and bring a better learning experience and classroom to music students? How can we leave a mark of our teaching, learning, and assessment practices and shape the present and future terrain for a pedagogical framework? Where do you and your practices exist on this map of our culture and society? 

Please complete the module descriptor form and surveys as soon as you can so we can start mapping this complex and diverse terrain together. 

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