Australian screen content in primary, secondary and tertiary education: uses and potential. This project will investigate the educational market for Australian screen content and the ways students use and engage with that content. This will inform policy development, stimulate content production and distribution, and increase awareness of the availability and utility of Australian screen content in educational settings.
Music can speak for you: making music with a deep net partner. This project aims to develop and evaluate a novel computational partner to aid composers and non-musicians to make personal music. One computational component learns to output musical structures that another component moulds towards user-desired features while encouraging innovation and exploration. Listeners’ evaluation of the musical outputs in terms of affect will be analysed, potentially allowing us to extend current music genera ....Music can speak for you: making music with a deep net partner. This project aims to develop and evaluate a novel computational partner to aid composers and non-musicians to make personal music. One computational component learns to output musical structures that another component moulds towards user-desired features while encouraging innovation and exploration. Listeners’ evaluation of the musical outputs in terms of affect will be analysed, potentially allowing us to extend current music generation software considerably. The expected outcomes will be a tool for musicians, but also for untrained people, young and older, allowing such untrained people to make personalized music. The tool can thus provide benefits to the creative arts, and to the educational and wellbeing support sectors.Read moreRead less
Serious play: using digital games in school to promote literacy and learning in the twenty first century. Young Australian’s social and cultural experiences are increasingly digital. This project will offer leadership to schools seeking to use and create games to improve student outcomes across subject areas, and will generate new knowledge about how students and teachers approach digital games and the kinds of literacy, learning and pedagogy they entail.
Transforming 21st century creativity education in Australasia. This project aims to address the development of Australasian creativity education by advancing a unified intercultural approach to the enhancement of creative skills and capacities in compulsory schooling. The project will use an innovative approach across the education lifespan, marked by emerging models of education and workplace training. The expected outcomes of this project include a consistent approach to develop creative skill ....Transforming 21st century creativity education in Australasia. This project aims to address the development of Australasian creativity education by advancing a unified intercultural approach to the enhancement of creative skills and capacities in compulsory schooling. The project will use an innovative approach across the education lifespan, marked by emerging models of education and workplace training. The expected outcomes of this project include a consistent approach to develop creative skills and capacities to better prepare Australians as high quality global workforce. This will help to ensure creative and cultural industrial advancement in our region and provide significant benefits across education, economic and transnational alliances.Read moreRead less
Pedagogies of expertise in musical thought and practice. This project aims to research the pedagogy and environmental features that underpin the development of early expertise in music. Previous studies of musical expertise have studied instrumental expertise developed in individual contexts. The project will study choral singing, where children (age 6 – 17) attain a standard of expertise unique to that domain and acquired in a collective setting. Through studying expert practice in children’s c ....Pedagogies of expertise in musical thought and practice. This project aims to research the pedagogy and environmental features that underpin the development of early expertise in music. Previous studies of musical expertise have studied instrumental expertise developed in individual contexts. The project will study choral singing, where children (age 6 – 17) attain a standard of expertise unique to that domain and acquired in a collective setting. Through studying expert practice in children’s choirs that reflect diverse socio-cultural settings (sacred, secular, male, female, Indigenous choirs), the project intends to inform pedagogical practices and learning environment design for children and young people in and beyond music.Read moreRead less
Young people and arts practice: impact, evaluation, and the third space. Identifying a better way forward. This research reveals effective ways of developing young people's creative responses to unknown futures in fragile communities. Through this project, the impact and conditions enabling these responses will be better understood, strengthening enablers and minimising constraints on this work. This will allow for generation of a replicable model, effective evaluative tools and mapping diversit ....Young people and arts practice: impact, evaluation, and the third space. Identifying a better way forward. This research reveals effective ways of developing young people's creative responses to unknown futures in fragile communities. Through this project, the impact and conditions enabling these responses will be better understood, strengthening enablers and minimising constraints on this work. This will allow for generation of a replicable model, effective evaluative tools and mapping diversity of creative practices.Read moreRead less