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