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12. Employability Skills within an Inclusive Undergraduate and Postgraduate Performance Curriculum in the UK

Chapter of: Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research(pp. 287–306)

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Title12. Employability Skills within an Inclusive Undergraduate and Postgraduate Performance Curriculum in the UK
ContributorHelen Julia Minors(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0398.15
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0398/chapters/10.11647/obp.0398.15
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightHelen Julia Minors
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-05-27
Long abstractThis chapter illustrates two parallel artistic research pedagogic projects, led by the author at Kingston University, Taking Race Live and the Inclusive Curriculum Framework, which aimed to integrate employability skills into the music curriculum of both undergraduate and postgraduate music students, while at the same time, working to develop an inclusive curriculum. Exploring work over the last decade, this chapter asks: how can we embed employability skills alongside performance technique, aesthetic understanding and analytical ability? How can these embedded skills be developed in an authentic manner to support students’ learning? What might an inclusive performance curriculum look like?
Page rangepp. 287–306
Print length20 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Helen Julia Minors

(author)
Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-9030

Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University. She is also a Visiting Professor at Lulea Technical University. She was founder and original co-chair of EDI Music Studies Network. Her publications include Routledge Companion to Women's Musical; Leadership (Routledge, 2024) co-edited with Laura Hamer, Music, Dance and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2023), Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, co-edited with Martin Blain (Palgrave, 2020), Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician, co-edited with Laura Watson (Routledge, 2019), Building Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Bridges: Where Theory Meets Research and Practice, co-edited with Pamela Burnard et al (BIBACC, 2017), and Music, Text and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013). Recent articles and chapters have also appeared in the London Review of Education (2017/2019), Translation and Multimodality (Routledge, 2019), Opera and Translation (John Benjamins, 2020), Tibon (2022), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions (2023) and Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (2023).

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