Uncovering best practice in developing entrepreneurial mindsets in performing arts education in UK secondary school education

Partners and collaborators

Collaboration with Michelle Phillips at Royal Northern College of Music

Description

This project focusses on what HEIs can learn from training in entrepreneurship and enterprise (defined by QAA 2018, hereafter 'enterprise’) in pre-Higher Education (HE) performing arts education. Our institutions are representative of performing arts training in HE and our collaboration will use a review of literature, and relevant policy and guidance alongside empirical data collection to uncover: existing activities in schools that could be classified as enterprise education; teacher perceptions of, and motivations for, such teaching approaches (in school and HE); the impact of enterprise education (EE) on pupils; and the relevance for current HE agendas (e.g. educational gain). 

Impact

We will produce a report with the findings of our project, shared for free on the two institutional websites, including top tips of what performing arts HEIs could do to make use of our findings.

We will create an ETC toolkit with an example of a technique learned from pre-HE which we feel can be successfully adapted to HE, or to sessions before students begin their degree programme studies.

We will run a workshop and networking event for secondary and HE performing arts educators to refine the best practice guide and to allow HE to learn from the richness of knowledge in the secondary education system.

We will publish a peer reviewed paper summarising our findings.