​​This project is rooted in an established teacher-education partnership between the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and Olympias Music Foundation, which aims to address their shared aspiration to better understand the complex challenges of teaching music within diverse local communities. Situated within central Manchester, the aim of this PhD project is to explore the impact of training musical performers from Global Majority backgrounds to teach children aged 6-16 from Global Majority backgrounds, and how this might support children’s confidence, sense of belonging and identity, and future aspirations. We are particularly interested in exploring what ‘good teaching’ looks like in the context of other musical cultures and what happens when musicians teach their own cultural music(s) using their own cultural approaches to children from non-western backgrounds living in the UK.

 

This research therefore aims to interrogate the complex educational challenges of teaching music within diverse educational contexts in order to develop teacher training in England. The researcher will therefore need to stake out this field of enquiry to better understand the challenges and opportunities within this domain, and so devise sensitive and culturally appropriate methodological approaches to the research. The project ultimately seeks to enable more adaptable music teaching through developing new frameworks and models of practice that can inform regional and national teacher training programmes and policy.

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Deadline for submitting research proposal and application form to Acceptd: 5pm on Friday 23 May

Interviews: Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 June