Music Education and Social Justice

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Ability to reflect critically on your ability to organise events involving diverse stakeholders.
• Work with multiple and variable types of sources to research a topic and present findings
• Gather, analyse and critically evaluate feedback.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The range of models and approaches involved in activist social justice projects.
• A range of ways of designing and running music education projects in a variety of settings.
• The importance and context of Music Education and Social Justice to the wider fields of music education and EDI music studies.
• The skills and attributes required of a music graduate embarking upon a formal programme of pedagogic training, and consequent entry into the teaching profession.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically reflect on your contribution and approaches to the community-based learning project.
• Critically reflect on the skills needed for successfully embedding social justice principles into music teaching.
• demonstrate familiarity with a global range of academic approaches to social justice in music education, creating awareness of contextual differences in approaches, and reflexive, intersectional, models for teaching music to diverse groups of people.

Students will explore social justice themes such as decolonisation, music education history, class, race and gender over the course of the module, applying these approaches to working in community settings.

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures
• Workshops
• Group tutorials
• Mentoring

Learning activities include:

• Individual study
• Community Based Project
• Presentations
• Library research
• Online research
• Observation

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.