Join us at the Music Education Research and Policy Summit

Welcome to the Music Education Policy Directions in Australia network's first summit!

Held at Griffith University's Creative Arts Research Institute on the beautiful banks of the Maiwar in Meanjin (Brisbane), this event brings together leading music education researchers from around Australia to co-construct policy visions for an equitable, diverse and creative future.

LOCATION

CARI

226 Grey St

South Brisbane

Griffith University's Creative Arts Research Institute is located at the Queensland College of Art Building S02, 7th floor.

Day One

17 July

10am - 11am

Welcome and Introduction

11am - 1pm

The time is now!

Led by Dr Alexis Kallio (QCGU), this first session will frame our current moment as a liminal space – and provide an opportunity to reflect upon our values, challenges, and opportunities in considering what we might need to take with us going forward and what we might leave behind.

Coffee and tea will be provided during the session.

Please familiarise yourself with any provisions for school instrumental education in your State/Territory

Please familiarise yourself with the National Cultural Policy

1pm - 2:30pm

Lunchtime Performance and Provocation

Indigenous Mentor Michael Orcher (Gunya Meta) and Dr. John Davis (Deakin) will join us for lunch, music, and perspective shifts.

2:20pm - 3:30pm

Walk and Talk

Weather permitting, participants will divide into small groups to consider a National or State/Territory based vision for instrumental music in schools while walking the beautiful surrounds of Brisbane’s Southbank

Bring your walking shoes!

3:30pm - 5pm

Liminal Space Workshop

Led by Dr. Nicole Canham (Monash) this workshop will guide a reflection and reconsideration of our beliefs and values during this time of transition and change

Coffee and tea will be provided during the session.

Please read:

Canham, N. (2023). Living with liminality: Reconceptualising music careers education and research. Research Studies in Music Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X221144583

5pm

Day End

Day Two

18 July

10am to 12pm

Workshop

Led by Dr Brad Fuller (Usyd), this workshop will guide us to collaboratively consider the imperatives of decolonisation; cultural resilience; inclusion, agency, and wellbeing; and the post-digital age for classroom music education in a pandemic and post-pandemic world.

Coffee and tea will be provided during the session

Please read:

Westerlund, H., Karlsen, S., Kallio, A.A., Treacy, D. S., Miettinen, L., Timonen, V., Gluschankof, C., Ehrlich, A., & Shah, I. B. (2021). Visions for intercultural music teacher education in complex societies. Research Studies in Music Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X211032490

Wilson, E., Jeanneret, N., Selkrig, M., Hillman, J., & Bolden, B. (2023). Arts education imperatives: Connecting the globe. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 24(4). http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea24n4

12pm - 1pm

Provocation

Mr Dale Murray (Australian Association for Flexible and Inclusive Education; Life without Barriers) will challenge us to think beyond the schools we know to imagine the schools our communities need.

https://aafie.org.au/

1pm - 2pm

Lunchtime Performance

Lunch will be provided and accompanied by a musical performance by students from Ithaca Creek State School.

2pm - 3pm

Walk and Talk

Bring your walking shoes!

3pm - 5pm

Workshop

Led by Dr. Jason Goopy (ECU, ASME Pres), this workshop aims to identify common values, beliefs and challenges for classroom music education between our various contexts and communities, considering what a classroom music education is (or ought to be) and what/who it ought to be for.

Coffee and tea will be provided during the session.

Please familiarise yourself with classroom (primary and/or secondary) music education policy/curricula in your State/Territory

5pm

Day End

6:30pm

Summit Dinner

Day Three

19 July

10am to 12pm

Future Connections and Collaborations

Drawing together the work undertaken thus far, this workshop will focus on the partnerships and listening/learning that we need to engage in in order to realise a whole-community approach to effecting change in Australian school music education.

Coffee and tea will be provided during the session

12pm - 1pm

Lunch

Lunch will be provided

1pm - 3pm

Future Directions

To end the day, we will work together to plan further directions and collaborations

3pm

Day End

SUMMIT DINNER

Tuesday 18 July 2023 6:30pm

Chu the Phat Restaurant

111 Melbourne Street

South Brisbane Qld 4101

MEPDA Summit Team

Alexis Kallio

Deputy Director (Research)

Queensland Conservatorium

Griffith University

Rebecca Yarnold

MEPDA Assistant

PhD Candidate

Queensland Conservatorium

Griffith University

Rohan Hardy

MEPDA Research Assistant

PhD Candidate

Queensland Conservatorium

Griffith University

Participate in Research

As part of the Music Education Research and Policy Summit, we would like to invite you to participate in a research project (GU ref no: 2023/511) to examine the policy visions and values generated through this event.

If you choose to participate, your contributions to discussions may be recorded through field notes taken during the Summit as well as any artefacts produced during these sessions (such as mind maps).

Choosing not to participate has no bearing on your ability to join the Summit and participate fully in all sessions.

For more information please see the research information and consent form HERE.