Conservatoire alumni as mentors in instrumental music teacher education: a preliminary study

El aprendizaje basado en alumni, una nueva metodología de enseñanza

“… Reflexión sobre la práctica profesional: El ABAI no solo puede presentar beneficios para el alumnado actual, sino también para los egresados. De esta forma, uno de los principales beneficios constados en la literatura científica es que cuando el alumni participa en la actividad de formación o asesoramiento al alumnado actual (como mentoría) este se beneficia de un proceso reflexivo sobre su práctica profesional, ya que los procesos de aprendizaje recíproco llevan a los mentores a reflexionar sobre su propia práctica, profundizando su conocimiento pedagógico y su conciencia metacognitiva (Shaw, 2023) .…”

Preparing conservatoire students for the music education workforce: conversations with alumni

“…Whilst the studies by Mills (2004aMills ( , 2004b, Porton (2020), Shaw (2020) and Boyle (2021) obtained rich data from conservatoire graduates, they did not require or enable alumni to interact face-to-face with current students, nor with one another. Shaw (2022Shaw ( , 2023a interviewed conservatoire graduate instrumental teachers who had mentored students in teaching scenarios in schools, but still, opportunities for the mentors to network with other conservatoire graduates did not present themselves in this scenario. In contrast, the current study undertaken at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK, enabled three alumni to share early-career experiences: (i) with a group of final-year undergraduates who were enrolled on a final-year instrumental teaching module; (ii) with their graduate peers and (iii) with the researcher (who also happened to be the module leader).…”