Digital Media Enquiry is a compulsory module on the MA Digital Media programme. The module provides a critical overview of research practices within the fields...

Digital Media Enquiry is a compulsory module on the MA Digital Media programme. The module provides a critical overview of research practices within the fields of Media Studies and Cultural Studies. Students will engage with humanities, arts-based, sociological and mixed-method approaches to research. Students explore methods appropriate to the study of popular culture and media texts, audiences, learners and makers within offline and online contexts. Students will take part in lectures, demonstrations, presentations, seminars, group tasks and discussions. The module is intended to help prepare students for the independent research required for dissertations and reports. Each week, students will attend a large group lecture. This will be followed by seminars in which key approaches are explored in greater depth across the three routes.

Aims:

- you will gain a broad introduction to the foundations of Music Education across the secondary school sector, focusing on a variety of approaches to...

Aims:

- you will gain a broad introduction to the foundations of Music Education across the secondary school sector, focusing on a variety of approaches to planning, teaching and assessment both in the context of the Music classroom and in extra-curricular work.

Outcomes: 

You will:

- consolidate, adapt and extend your knowledge of music teaching and learning as appropriate to the range of school students.

- complete a range of tasks, including online group work, a written case study and an arrangement/composition and rehearsal task that will require you to reflect upon your work with school ensembles.

- reflect critically on your own experiences as teachers

- engage with recent and relevant theories of teaching and learning and develop your subject expertise and skills as musicians and music teachers

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