The practice of praxis. Are we asking the right questions? Every year with my students I discuss what is curriculum and how does one create it? We go from didactic situations through to praxis, reading and then discussing, and this year something hit me. In learning I believe that only the person can learn, e.g. …
At uni my teaching students follow along with the topics of open music class #MUS654 as a stimulus for learning about designing a curriculum. One of my aims is that students connect outwardly and begin to form wider networks of inquiry with teachers and musicians. Although this year I haven’t succeeded in convincing people to …
We’ve been thinking about curriculum in #MUS654, and have jumped ahead a bit to look at and annotate the article that is listed n the MUS654 tab between sessions 6 & 7 (and we’re only about to be on session 3 in our real life class). There was a reason for bringing this forward- because …
It’s a new academic year and a new chance to look at how we learn and teach. MUS654 is just that chance. It’s a class I run at the University of Chichester where my final year undergraduates studying private teaching focus on learning to create a curriculum for a student. This is not something that …
It’s the start of another academic year, and I have just welcomed a new group of wonderful final year students to my undergraduate class on repertoire for the young performer. It’s a great one, in that we are so diverse, from classical to folk to rock and yet all on a common path of figuring …
This post is a transcript of my speech at the Westminster Higher Education Forum Keynote Seminar: Innovation in curriculum design – internationalisation, employability and inclusivity, December 7, 2016 (5 min read) My Lord, ladies and gentlemen, respected colleagues, Twenty years ago as a student at university I experienced two types of curriculum: one stemming from a …
Learning is a fantastically non-linear, subjective experience that is like a stream flowing over, around, and through any number of expected and unexpected obstacles. It’s midway through the semester, and always at this time of year I find myself reflecting on how and why, on visible and invisible progress, and on what my role as …
It’s thinking time in MUS654! We should be working on Session 7, but you know what? People needed a bit of stepping back and thinking, so I added a page and we have delayed that session for a week. Photo byIan Foss CC BY-NC-ND In this class, MUS654, through these pages, the goal (if you do …
Are you out there? It’s that time again… time to join in with #MUS654! (photo CC-BY-NC by Eknath Gomphotherium) What is #MUS654?? A MOOC? – well yes and no. It is an open connected course. The idea was borne out of a basic and essential desire to learn, connect, and find the best resources (people and …