New CETL Appointment
at Newcastle
Dr Felicity Laurence has been appointed to the CETL to develop its educational profile and reach within and beyond the university. It is hoped that through such work within the existing projects, together with new research programmes arising from and reflecting CETL’s concern with inclusivity in musical education, an inclusive pedagogy of music education at all levels may progressively be explored, constructed and expounded. Furthermore, Felicity is working to expand co-operation with other institutions in the region, notably the music education programme at The Sage Gateshead, and schools in the region.
This work will gradually move from being an ‘added layer’ to being an integral element embedded in a spiral relationship with CETL projects, increasingly feeding back into their ongoing development. It will also help to establish a basis for the planned MA in Music Education at Newcastle’s International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS).
An initial example of this process can be seen in the pilot educational programme set up alongside the I³ project in Autumn 2006, in which school pupils were helped explore new compositions through a participant programme in which they themselves were also engaged in the compositional process. A further example, here of research activity being engendered by the CETL, is the recently piloted Hearing Voices’ research project. An important aspect of this study is its basis of collaboration between ICMuS and the Music Education programme at the SageGateshead, a collaboration which it is intended to expand throughout this and other projects to the clear benefit of both institutions.
