Research
Facilitated by: Francesca Christmas – Francesca.Christmas@trinitycollege.com
Five issues have been identified within research:
- There is a lot of research undertaken relating to music education
- Much of this is not published in a manner which is useful or accessible to teachers
- The reward systems for academics do not encourage publication in places which are easy for teachers to access
- Evaluations of projects by organisations are not always placed in the public domain which means that they cannot be accessed by academics
- There is very little funding available for teachers to undertake further study leading to research. Those wishing to pursue masters or doctoral studies generally have to fund themselves
Resources
- The Power of Music report is available here with executive summary here and a one page briefing paper available here
- CPD research is available here
- ABRSM’s Making Music report is available here
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Inspire Music report is available here
- Summary of Developing great teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development. Report by the Teacher Development Trust (2015) is available here
- Summary of Contribution of the arts and culture industry to the national economy: An update of our analysis of the macroeconomic contribution of the arts and culture industry to the national economy is available here
- The power of equality 2: final evaluation of Youth Music’s Musical Inclusion programme 2012-2015 available to download here.
- In Harmony Telford & Wrekin and Stoke on Trent report on SEN&D work is available here.
Actions
- MEC to alert the sector to research that is being undertaken
- MEC to produce summaries of key research reports as they are published
- MEC to produce summaries of past key research reports
- MEC to work collaboratively with member organisations considering undertaking research initiatives
- MEC to work closely with member organisations who publish research to ensure the insight informs discussions with policy and decision makers