Phil Kirkman

Position/Status

Teaching Associate

Academic Group

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education

E-mail Address

prk24@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

Recognition/Membership

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Profile

As well as his involvement with the Faculty PGCE course, Phil spends time studying and working in the field of music education research. Before this he worked as a music teacher in Greater Manchester and later as a high school Director of Music in Essex. Phil is committed to widening equality through music education and broadening our understanding of how school classrooms can become environments that facilitate the emergence of musical cultures. He frequently contributes to several web publications and maintains a personal blog on music education and technology. He also regularly provides in-service training for teachers in the Eastern region and writes and performs music with groups local to the Cambridge area.

The running of recent CPD courses includes: Assessment for Learning and the New Music National Curriculum (for CfBT/NAME); Digital Technologies and Musical Classrooms (for CfBT/NAME); Planning and delivering the New National Curriculum for music (for CfBT/NAME).

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Research

Interests

Recent Research Project

Secondary students’ compositional development with computer-mediated environments in a musical classroom community. (PhD Research, Supervisors: Dr Paul Andrews, Dr Dominic Wyse. Supported by the ESRC.)

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Teaching

Courses

PGCE Secondary Music
Professional Studies (Coordinator - Secondary PGCE)

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Selected Publications

Kirkman, P. & Thompson D. (In Preparation) Critical Understanding as an Encounter with a Narrative: Using Wenger's Duality to Ignite Musical Thinking

Kirkman, P. (In Preparation) Opening doors into digital worlds; Promoting Students' Voices in Music Education Research

Kirkman, P. (Forthcoming) Music in Society, the music industry and intellectual property rights. In Savage, J & Price, J (Eds.) Teaching Secondary Music SAGE.

Kirkman, P. (2011) Exploring Contexts for Development: Secondary Music Students' computer-mediated composing. Journal of Music, Technology and Education. 3:2&3 pp107-124. (Peer reviewed).

Kirkman, P. (2010) New worlds or cages? Yes, 11, 10-11 (Online at
http://www.yudu.com/item/details/226891/YES-11).

Kirkman, P. (2009) Embedding Digital technologies in the music classroom: An approach for the new music National Curriculum. (Online at http://www.name.org.uk/projects/ks3/how-teach-guides).

Further selected articles online at ‘Music, Technology and Education’ available at: http://www.kirki.co.uk.

Selected Conferences

June 2011. PGCE trainees making sense of AFL: Four Traditions. Secondary Cambridge Music Mentor Conference.

June 2009. Using Digital Technologies to Support Music Education...and Not the Other Way Round. Keynote address: Hertfordshire Secondary Music Teachers Conference, Stevenage.

April 2009. An investigation of the impact of distinct computer-mediated environments on secondary music students’ compositional development in contrasting classroom communities. Paper: The Sixth International Research In Music Education Conference, Exeter. (Peer Reviewed)

April 2009 Investigating distinct computer-mediated environments in real-life classroom contexts: a new digital methodology. Poster: The Sixth International Research In Music Education Conference, Exeter. (Peer Reviewed)