Pamela Burnard

• PhD, MEd, MMus, BMus, DipEd
• Professor at University of Cambridge

Evidence suggests that integrating art into creative teaching improves students’ perceptions of STEM disciplines. Students’ educational experiences are inherently made more comprehensive through art, as it allows them to connect many facets of human experience and practice. Synergy between mathematics and technology can create opportunities to prom...

An open letter to the NSW Minister for Education and Early Learning following the release of draft NSW 11-12 Syllabi, co-signed by 31 of Australia’s top academics, who are also music teachers and researchers of music education in Australia in its many forms. The letter calls for the "immediate suspension and removal” of the draft syllabi which the...

“The included research not only examines the impact of these technological encounters on educational practice but also propos- es a reconfiguration of music pedagogy as a creative space where bodily cognition, student autonomy, and interdisciplinarity converge. Throughout its chapters, the reader is invited to consider how technology can reshape mu...

Telepresence robots (TPRs) have a transformative potential in education, bringing about the fusion of human and non-human elements in education. Three case studies delve into TPR implications. The first retelling examines communication dynamics and gender-based variations. The second focuses on TPRs’ role in hybrid learning during COVID-19, address...

The intertwined relationship between ‘development’, ‘law’, and the ‘international’ is rooted deeply in the formation of the contemporary world. Since the end of the Second World War, ‘international law’ and ‘international development’ have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which competing aspirations about a better world ar...

This is the first international reference work to map out how Pierre Bourdieu has been used in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA, the handbook provides a unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used and adapted in educati...

Dominant conceptions of education are strongly framed by narratives of ‘power-over’ materials, context, and processes, especially where digital and technological applications reduce complexities between humans, materials, and environments. The separation of knowledge, tools, and bodies in ‘disciplinary bounded’, ‘copyrighted’, and ‘patented’ spa...

The chapters that make up this book recognise through examples from research, practice, and evaluation of quality with lived experiences that diverse contemporary popular musics can provide useful tools not just for entertainment and fun, but for learning, growth, and healing/wellness. Hip hop, techno, grime, drill, and suchlike are contemporary ge...

The chapters that make up this book recognise through examples from research, practice, and evaluation of quality with lived experiences that diverse contemporary popular musics can provide useful tools not just for entertainment and fun, but for learning, growth, and healing/wellness. Hip hop, techno, grime, drill, and suchlike are contemporary ge...

In this chapter we offer a diffractive re-reading which can be considered a type of transdisciplinary creativity that radically re-situates, and indeed deconstructs, forms of new knowing, re-seeing and re-doing, that extend the interconnectedness of artistic practice and artistic research.

The field of social entrepreneurship, a domain focused on implementing solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues, remains highly male-dominated. Research continues to emphasise that women social entrepreneurs are often expected to behave in masculine ways in order to become successful. The study presented in this article explored the p...

In this chapter we review new understandings on the diversity and inclusive practice of Hip-hop as a music genre and its immense importance to music educators. This chapter draws together an initial exchange of ideas drawn from an Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded network called Contemporary Urban Music for Inclusion Network (or CUMiN for...

In June 2020, the Vienna Declaration shed light on the viability of artistic research with an identity of its own. In its introduction, it explicitly states the need to “guarantee and incorporate post-graduate studies based on practice, in higher arts education in all European countries, in order to further develop artistic research...”. For the ti...

Global and societal changes present profound challenges and complexities for the future of music education practice and research. In these times of rapid change, four members of the MER editorial board reflect on the need to challenge normalising discourses of music education and encourage new understandings and/or territories within the field. In...

Making sense of musicians’ professional learning pathways is of crucial importance to understanding their career progressions, their routes into creative employment, and the relevance of various policies to their professional lives. However, this is a far cry from understanding how critical reflection catalyses diverse learning routes, especially w...

Published in Australian Art Education, Vol. 41, No. 1, Apr 2020: 53-74 Artography is a concept, practice, methodology and creative pedagogy that can be used across disciplines but has its roots in arts education. When used pedagogically, artography can performatively connect theory, practice and research for those engaging with it. Our research, a...

The overall goal of the ISEE Assessment is to pool multi-disciplinary expertise on educational systems and reforms from a range of stakeholders in an open and inclusive manner, and to undertake a scientifically robust and evidence based assessment that can inform education policy-making at all levels and on all scales. Its aim is not to be policy p...

The movement from STEM to STEAM, with its emphasis on real-world applications, promises to meet the changing needs of a globally connected world. However, the potential of transdisciplinarity to inspire and deepen our understanding of who we are and how we make sense of a world in turmoil remains undertheorized. This article makes a case for reposi...

Too often, STEAM education remains confined to singular understandings of arts-infused science teaching. Much less understood, developed and drawn upon are alternative epistemologies and material-discursive practices in education that decentralize the human from knowledge production, and acknowledge transdisciplinary intersections across the differ...

In this chapter, we argue for a new vision for teacher professional learning based on the diverse creativities as practice which catalyzes educational change in whole-school contexts. We argue that it is possible (and preferable) to expand improvements to teacher education and professional development beyond neoliberal notions of “workplace readine...

This article is an attempt to rethink and reposition STEAM-based education where arts and sciences are not separate or even separable endeavours, but rather combine as transdisciplinary configurations. In a world further fractured by the ongoing existential crises of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the precarity of human life on Earth, there is a...

In this project, data were collected involving: (a) a desk-based literature and policy analysis (b) on-site case studies conducted at The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and The V&A's Museum of Childhood involving interviews and observations; and (c) a one-day SUMMIT event for sharing of museum practices, partnership, and programmes. We offer a diffra...

In this chapter, which draws on a large data set of 131 drawings from 37 schools of socioeconomically diverse status, the research reports a novel analysis of a small sample of drawings which we have called 'mathsartsworks'. These were created by South African young people Grade 8-12 following a series of mathematics-art-experiential workshops. The...

This article considers the value and role of early years music and sound activities in museum spaces – in relation to children themselves, as well as to their families and wider communities. The article reviews literature around early years music and sound activities; early childhood and the museum; and the use of music and sound in museum spaces –...

In this chapter, we examine a collection of drawings, and paintings from South African students between the ages of 10 to 17, that provide fresh and original perceptions to some already known topics, but also several unexpected connections between mathematics and art. These works reference classic math-art connections such as: golden ratio, spirals...

Several studies have highlighted the positive effects of group music-making and have suggested that it may be the creative and social aspects of such activities, which have a positive effect on participants’ wellbeing. Collaborative composition offers strong examples of both aspects as participants work together to create new material. However, alt...

and Keywords "STEAM education," with its addition of "arts" to STEM subjects, is a complex and contested concept. On the one hand, STEAM builds upon the economic drivers that characterize STEM: an alignment of disciplinary areas that allegedly have the greatest impact on a developed country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). On the other hand, the add...

MUSICEUM set out as a mapping and scoping exercise involving (a) literatures and policy analysis (b) two case study museums including interviews and observations and (c) a one-day SUMMIT for the purpose of bringing national stakeholders diverse perspectives together for mapping and critical analysis of current research, programmes, practices, polic...

MUSICEUM set out as a mapping and scoping exercise, involving (a) literatures and policy analysis (b) two case study museums including interviews and observations and (c) a one-day SUMMIT for the purpose of bringing national stakeholders diverse perspectives together for mapping and critical analysis of current research, programmes, practices, poli...

The study recognizes that museums represent a potentially rich space for families with young children in disadvantaged communities to access, and hence enjoy multiple benefits. Specifically, museums hold the potential to engage such families in Early Years music making programmes, which have been shown to offer myriad cognitive, social, emotional,...

In this article we argue that the power and politics of the arts is a way of raising awareness and responding to the globally shared problem of climate change. We illustrate how climate change is integral to a choreographic practice that inheres in: the performing body, which moves while it thinks, feels while it imagines and senses as it understan...

Although there is increasing interest in how learning to become a researching professional is understood by students undertaking a professional doctorate of education (EdD), the topic remains under-researched and under-theorized. In this article, we provide a set of theorizations, starting with the purpose and distinctiveness of the professional do...

This multi-method project asks what the arts, in transdisciplinary learning spaces, can contribute to primary education. We position our work at the interstices of: (i) the rising wave of interest in, and imperative for, building sustainable creative futures; (ii) the concept of the Anthropocene which pulls together ideas of environmental change an...

This article presents five case studies from within music in higher education programmes that collectively explore key questions concerning how we look at the challenges and trends, and the need for change to react to the recent higher education (HE) climate, through reference to teaching musicians the skills, knowledge and diverse career creativit...

Environmental artists are ecologically and politically motivated to change the way we view our world. Artists undertake the production of art and activism, where the art-making becomes more than art; it becomes activism; a way that allows for raising awareness; a way to retrieve, express and communicate a political message. Here, diverse creativiti...

We are told that we need new thinking in the current world crises of economics and global environmental concerns. We are also told that, in higher education, a new critically reflexive form of creative teaching and learning is required in order to address the task of reconciling the need for a stable, safe, ethical and empathetic world with the nee...

The term ‘intercultural’ (as in ‘intercultural creativity’) acknowledges the complexity of locations, identities, and modes of expression in a global world, and the desire to raise awareness, foster intercultural dialogue, and facilitate understanding across and between cultures. In a globalized world faced with unprecedented challenges, intercultu...

This article presents five case studies from within music in higher education programmes that collectively explore key questions concerning how we look at the challenges and trends, and the need for change to react to the recent higher education (HE) climate, through reference to teaching musicians the skills, knowledge and diverse career creativit...

The term ‘intercultural’ (as in ‘intercultural creativity’) acknowledges the complexity of locations, identities, and modes of expression in a global world, and the desire to raise awareness, foster intercultural dialogue, and facilitate understanding across and between cultures. In a globalized world faced with unprecedented challenges, intercultu...

Bourdieu’s rich conceptual tools of habitus, capital, and field continue to be useful in multiple areas of sociological research; however, his tools take many shapes within his own writing and different disciplines. In this article, we reflect on our use of Bourdieu’s tools in order to enhance our understanding of how Bourdieu’s notion of ‘practice...

2 Acknowledgments This review was undertaken with the support of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). We thank the association for their vision in promoting dialogue amongst its membership and others with a stake in education. We also thank the Scottish Educational Research Association for supporting, sharing, and debating with educ...

Although there is increasing interest in how learning to become a researching professional is understood by students undertaking a professional doctorate of education (EdD), the topic remains under-researched and under-theorized. In this article, we provide a set of theorizations, starting with the purpose and distinctiveness of the professional do...

Bourdieu’s rich conceptual tools of habitus, capital and field continue to be useful in multiple areas of sociological research; however, his tools take many shapes within his own writing and different disciplines. In this article, we reflect on our use of Bourdieu’s tools in order to enhance our understanding of how Bourdieu’s notion of ‘practice’...

The growing interest in musical improvisation is exemplified by the body of literatures evidencing the positive impacts of improvisation learning on the musical apprentice’s aptitudes and the increasing presence of improvisation in Western classical concert halls and competitions. However, high-level Western classical music improvisers’ thinking pr...

The growing interest in musical improvisation is exemplified by the body of literatures evidencing the positive impacts of improvisation learning on the musical apprentice’s aptitudes and the increasing presence of improvisation in Western classical concert halls and competitions. However, high-level Western classical music improvisers’ thinking pr...

Fully updated in light of the latest research and practice in primary education, Teaching Music Creatively offers all teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to develop, deliver and enjoy a creative music curriculum. It is inspired by the belief that all those concerned with primary education have a deep interest in creativity and supports te...

Creativities in childhood and education have long been seen as central pedagogical principles in the primary curriculum. Music, too, is a vital part of childhood. It is a subject which deserves to be taught with skill and depth as part of the primary curriculum and should be a vital part of what children learn as part of their primary schooling ent...

There is a long history of collaborations between teachers and professional artists in participatory arts activities in schools and communities. Models of pedagogic partnerships between artists and teachers vary considerably. However, effective partnerships between artists and teachers in schools suggest that it is in classroom creativities that in...

Sonic Pi is a new open source software tool and platform originally developed for the Raspberry Pi computer, designed to enable school children to learn programming by creating music. In this article we share insights from a scoping study on the development of Sonic Pi and its use in educational partnerships. Our findings draw attention to the impo...

This research aimed to develop a set of indicators for creativity education and a questionnaire to evaluate its delivery in Taiwan. Four research methods were systematically combined to develop the indicators and the questionnaire, including interviews, document analysis, onsite visits, and a survey. The indicator-informed questionnaire was then ad...

The pace of engagement with new digital technologies in music education is proving to be slow. A key issue - and a major barrier to entry - is teacher skills and confidence to work with technology creatively. Following a concerted campaign from the technology industry, in spring 2013 the UK government agreed to introduce the subject of computing in...

Why is it an imperative for arts institutions and academies to identify creative teaching in relation to creative learning as a vital way of addressing the politics of higher education? What is it about creative teaching in relation to creative learning that offers new priorities, new narratives, new forms of knowledge, new ways of ‘knowing how to...

Despite a growing interest in Western classical improvisation among researchers, educators and musicians in recent decades, research insights on expert improvisers' learning pathways are scarce. In order to further understanding this phenomenon, we formulated the following research question: “What characterizes the learning pathways of Western clas...

The purpose and impact of the professional doctorate – or EdD (Doctor of Education) – has long been debated. What should it be? Who should do it? Why is it worth doing? How should it be taught? What makes the EdD distinctive, unique and worthwhile? Internationally, at the level of program development and provision, universities are increasing the...

This handbook seeks to present a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of social justice in music education. Contributors from around the world interrogate the complex, multidimensional, and often contested nature of social justice and music education from a variety of philosophical, political, social, and cultural perspectives. Although many chapt...

Sonic Pi is a new open source software tool and platform originally developed for the Raspberry Pi computer, designed to enable school children to learn programming by creating music. In this article we share insights from a scoping study on the development of Sonic Pi and its use in educational partnerships. Our findings draw attention to the impo...

Introduction (extract): Graduates need to develop multiple human capital career creativities if they are to create and sustain careers in the creative industries. This is because creative work is characterised by multiple concurrent roles within portfolio careers that are commonly protean and boundaryless: the former, emphasising capital expansion...

In the light of significant national and international policy change impacting institutions of higher education and higher education’s role in the emerging world economy (Friedman, 2005), it is unsurprising that new interest in the doctoral education field has prompted changing conceptualisations of what doctoral work is. At the level of programme...