A reflective perspective on the challenges facing research-led teaching in the performing and creative arts

Abstract

This article provides a reflective perspective on the role that research-led teaching plays in the development of future arts workers in higher education. It explores the challenges faced by lecturers developing curricula in the performing and creative arts and argues that the increasing focus on employability can conflict with universities' traditional aim of developing conceptual and critical thinkers. The article charges that the UK's higher education sector is rapidly transforming itself into a two-tier system, which is serving to dichotomize vocational and academic learning even further. It concludes with a call for universities, students and employers to reject the false dichotomy between vocational and academic learning and perceive education in a more holistic, longitudinal sense, which might in turn develop more balanced graduates who excel in networked knowledge, conceptual and theoretical imagination and critical, lateral thinking.

Learning and Teaching Music in the Twenty-First Century

“…It is a fact that students of musical instruments in higher education centre their efforts on this (Creech et al, 2008;Gaunt, 2010). However, these Hence, the curriculums of music teaching have always considered this a central aspect (Barrett, 2007;Walmsley, 2013). However, the addition of representative subjects of the aspects mentioned in the previous paragraph in the curriculums as we have just suggested, do not appear to be sufficient and therefore, students must also be exposed to pedagogic environments where they develop traits which are relevant in our current western society, including adaptability, flexibility and resilience (Burnard, 2012;Gaunt et al, 2012).…”

Research on the Relationship between Human Resource Management Activities and Enterprise Performance Based on the Supervised Learning Model

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“…More and more data are generated by the development of enterprises, and with such a huge amount of data, it is simply impossible to implement human efforts to manage and analyze the data, thus giving birth to information management systems. Information management system [1][2][3] is a kind of management software with functions such as data collection and database creation and data management, which can manage and analyze a large amount of data in a unified way. HRMS combines human resource management and information technology, which is not only an information processing tool but also a resource management specification whose main purpose is to standardize the business processes of HR departments, centralize HR information, and improve the transparency of HR management through the system [4].…”

Exploration of Cultural Change of Film and Television Art Media Formation and Digital Cultivation Path of Media Talents

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