Music Education (Taught)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• You will be engaged with London schools and community music settings.

• You may enhance your performance skills by participating in a University musical ensemble or form your own.

• Facilities include recording studios, rehearsal rooms, a synthesis/sampling lab, and the analogue/digital hybrid Visconti Studio, which has a 300m² live room and rare and vintage recording equipment.

About this course
If you already work as a music educator, or seek to become one, this course will develop and enhance your skills as both a practitioner and researcher. You will have the opportunity to study major issues in international music education and the UK system of music education research and practices. You will develop and implement a teaching and learning project within an educational setting and the Kingston community. Your research project will take the form of a dissertation. You will receive guidance from a specialist tutor and be taught research, project planning, and development skills.

Example modules

• Constructing Music Education in the UK

• International Music Education: Psychology, Culture

• and Philosophy

• Music and Technology in Education

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.