Purpose
The main objective is to offer alternatives that will link artistic research, artistic training, personal development, and career management.
Project description
REACT is a reaction to a current problem arising from the long-established model for teaching music performance in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs): musicians are trained for acquiring read-only skills instead of educating them to become creative professionals. HEIs are not helping musicians to meet the challenges of working life.
REACT is an Strategic Partnership funded by ERASMUS+ that will mobilise a knowledge-creating international cooperative network to develop a new pedagogical model for HEIs – the Artistic Research-Based Learning (AR-BL) model, inspired by the epistemological framework proposed by the project’s leading team.
The novelty of this project resides in shifting the focus from technical skills to material thinking, i.e., a specific mode of thought resulting from how ideas and works shape each other, reconfiguring the established mythopoetic configurations. The AR-BL model aims at encouraging a shift towards developing students’ creativity, proactive critical thinking and reflexive musical practice.
This model will:
- Stimulate and exemplify the integration between different fields of artistic expression in the teaching of musical performance.
- Promote a teaching/learning environment based on critical self-reflection and wider societal reflexivity beyond the existing practice;
- Promote awareness that artistic productions involve knowledge production (material thinking) and exploration of means to share this knowledge academically and via practice (artistic research)
- Increase articulation between HEIs and current professional requirements in the field of performance
