Entrepreneurial Music Education: Professional Learning in Schools and the Industry

by Kristina Kelman

Overview

This book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry. It uses extensive data from a long-running research project where high school students were invited to start their own business venture, Youth Music Industries. Not only did this act as a business venture, but it also functioned as a learning environment informed by the concepts of Communities of Practice and social capital. Exploring how entrepreneurial qualities were developed, their learning was subsequently captured and distilled into a set of design principles: in this way, a pedagogical approach was developed that can be transferred across the creative industries more broadly. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of music education, as well as those preparing students for the creative industries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030371289
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/21/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Kristina Kelman is a QUT academic, researcher, teacher, community music facilitator and jazz musician. Her research interests include the education of the aspiring, professional musician through experiential learning.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Making a case for an entrepreneurial music education in schools.- Chapter 2. Current approaches to education, but what about the music industry?.- Chapter 3. Building the emerging professional learning model.- Chapter 4. Designing an entrepreneurial music project.- Chapter 5. Developing social skills for entrepreneurship in the music industry.- Chapter 6. Learning about project management for entrepreneurship in the music industry.- Chapter 7. Acquiring domain knowledge for entrepreneurship in the music industry.- Chapter 8. Design principles to plan entrepreneurial learning in music education

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This is a terrific contribution to innovative practices in music education, and makes a profound connection with the musical world outside the classroom."
—Professor Emerita Lucy Green, UCL Institute of Education, UK

"Entrepreneurial skills are essential for aspiring musicians, artists and composers in the contemporary music economy. The question is how to design a learning experience where young musicians are able to develop such skills. In this important book, Dr Kelman reports on her successful approach to this challenge. Dr Kelman's entrepreneurial education model that allows students grow their own business venture provides crucial insights for music industry educators around the world."
—Professor Patrik Wikstrom, Queensland University of Technology, Australia