Dance, Drama and Music Briefing
December 2011
CONTENTS
- Season's Greetings card and Introduction
- New resource: Reflecting on Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts
- New resource: Digitalis: using digital technologies to enhance creative reflection
- Funding Opportunities: increased funding for hosting workshops
- Forthcoming events and links to resources
- Supporting and working with you: request a visit
- Link to previous briefings
Introduction
In many respects 2011 has been a watershed year, and the changes to higher education and the challenges they pose for discipline communities and institutions are complex and difficult. The Higher Education Academy itself has undergone a transformational and admittedly difficult restructuring in order to place itself in the best position to help and support individuals, disciplines and institutions to meet many of those challenges and to enhance your work and our work in higher education.
We invite colleagues in HE dance, drama and music to exploit the funding opportunities the HEA offers, to continue to propose and host workshops and seminars on issues of concern and interest to our disciplines, and to continue to propose ideas for projects and research in relation to enhancing learning and teaching.
As the UK Discipline Lead for Dance, Drama and Music, and on behalf of everyone at the Higher Education Academy, I wish you a happy and fulfilling 2012.
Paul Kleiman
(The photograph of the robin was taken at Dartington Hall, Devon by Sarah R-K, a music student at University College Falmouth incorporating Dartington College of Arts)
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance invites colleagues to view its Open Educational Resource:
Reflecting on Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts
This resource is intended to support and enhance the professional practice of those involved in learning and teaching in the performing arts in higher education. It is also intended to support students on accredited United Kingdom programmes of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and teachers who wish individually to apply for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. RBC now has funding to expand the resource in the areas of music, dance and television and film performance teaching. Colleagues teaching in these areas who would like to be involved please contact Professor Kathy Dacre, Director of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum development at Kathy.dacre@bruford.ac.uk
Digitalis: Using digital technologies to enhance and embed creative reflection
Digitalis is a Leeds University Academic Development Fund supported project. Its remit is to map current reflective practice which expressly uses digital technologies, and to provide a mechanism to share best practice, experience and innovation. The project has included a PALATINE-supported symposium on sharing best practice, presentations at conferences, workshop development within the curriculum, and the generation of a toolkit for a wider audience.
In the creative and performing arts work is often practice-based and related to creative outputs. However, the ephemerality of much of the work and the complex collaborative processes undergone to achieve them means that the use of technology as a mechanism to enhance reflection is of particular importance. Digitalis set out to capture these processes and to facilitate deeper reflection through the use of appropriate digital technology and platforms. The Digitalis website contains a number of resources (video tutorials, how to guides, and case studies) to help with digital reflection (creative reflection using digital technologies), and colleagues are invited to access the resource.
The website is http://digitalis.leeds.ac.uk, and there is a 3-minute tour of the website here: http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk/pcuck/videos/6776
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: PROPOSING AND HOSTING EVENTS
INCREASED FUNDING FOR HOSTING DISCIPLINE WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS
The HEA has increased the funding it provides to departments and institutions for proposing and/or hosting discipline-focused workshops and seminars. Funding has been provided to enable us to offer a grant of up to £1000 to institutions to host and deliver a workshop or seminar on teaching and learning in a discipline context. An additional fund of up to £500 is available for speaker expenses. We, once again, invite and welcome proposals for events from colleagues in dance, drama and music on any topic that is likely to be of interest to our various communities of practice in relation to learning and teaching in our disciplines.
Full details about the workshop/ and seminar scheme can be found here:
Discipline workshop and seminar series
Please contact Paul Kleiman (paul.kleiman@heacademy.ac.uk) to discuss any ideas or if you have any questions.
(note: the increased funding applies to proposals already received, if there is a good case for an increase)
EVENTS AND RESOURCES
Date for your Diary: Dance, Drama, Music Events
MOVING INTO COMPOSITION
the experiences of student composers in higher education
during a short course of Dalcroze Eurythmic
Coventry University
28 March 2012
for further information about this event contact John Habron at Coventry University aa7981@coventry.ac.uk
Other forthcoming HEA events can be viewed here: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events
HEA (ex-PALATINE) dance/drama/music resources can be accessed here. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources
SUPPORTING AND WORKING WITH YOU
If there are matters of interest and/or concern in regard to learning and teaching that the HEA might be able to help with, please contact us and request a visit from Paul Kleiman, the Discipline Lead, one of our discipline-based Academic Associates or other HEA representative. We will visit individuals, groups or departments to have an in-depth conversation or presentation about how the HEA can, for example:
• help to support your work on teaching and learning;
• help you to become involved in the HEA’s work as an Academic Associate, researching, writing, carrying out projects, or contributing to other events, such as the annual conference;
• support your ideas for presenting workshops and seminars and disseminating findings through an Insights pamphlet and/or other medium;
• recognise the quality of your work in teaching, learning and curriculum development, through the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) by becoming a Fellow or even the National Teaching Fellowship scheme;
• provide advice on your application to its call for grants: for travel: for new PhD research; for individuals, departments and departments that wish to collaborate to carry out research projects;
• support your ideas for carrying out research and scholarly activity on issues, themes and pegagogies that can then be of benefit to the history community;
• support your ideas for organising a Special Interest Group.
November 2011
including
- Assessing Group Practice archive
- 'Mapping Masterclasses' project
Compiled by Paul Kleiman
HEA UK Discipline Lead for Dance, Drama and Music