Manifesto for The Path Of Music

March 20, 2014

 

Welcome to The Path Of Music - a blog for Undergraduate Music Research!

 

It is a blog for undergraduate students by undergraduate students on Music and People in the 21st Century.

 

Undergraduate research is often limited to elite universities and exclusive to students achieving high grades. 

In addition to this there are a lot more undergraduate research opportunities for Science students than for Arts and Humanities students (M. Healey et al., 2009, p.17).

 

This blog aims to fill this gap in undergraduate research via popularizing music undergraduate research in the UK and the rest of the world to all universities, colleges and students. It encourages as well students to challenge themselves to publish top quality undergraduate papers, as academic staff and PhD students peer-review the papers. Another reason this blog could become an asset for students is that undergraduate research has been proven to improve undergraduate students academic results, CVs and personal fulfilment:

 

“Many of the benefits reflect personal and professional growth. These findings confirm that undergraduate research is a ‘powerful affective, behavioural, and personal-discovery experience (Seymour et al. 2003, p.54) that benefits all students regardless of their discipline or career directions.” (Craney et al. 2011, p.110)

 

“For students themselves, participation in undergraduate research has been found to positively affect analytic and critical thinking.” (Webber et al., 2013, p.240)

 

My hope is that undergraduate music students get more involved in writing up research papers so that undergraduate students from all over the world can feed into each other research and techniques of research.This would also contribute to better academic achievements by these students contributing to better undergraduate academic results for the participants’ university.

 

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Bibliography:

Bradford, C. 2010. Book review of Healey, M. and Jenkins, A. 2009. Developing undergraduate research and inquiry. York: The Higher Education Academy. Journal of Information Literacy, 4 (2), pp. 99--100.

 

Craney, C., Mckay, T., Mazzeo, A., Morris, J., Prigodich, C. and De Groot, R. 2011. Cross-discipline perceptions of the undergraduate research experience. The Journal of Higher Education, 82 (1), pp. 92--113.

 

Fechheimer, M., Webber, K. and Kleiber, P. B. 2011. How well do undergraduate research programs promote engagement and success of students?. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 10 (2), pp. 156--163.

 

Healey, M. and Jenkins, A. 2009. Developing undergraduate research and inquiry. The Higher Education Academy.

 

Seymour, E., Hunter, A.-B., Laursen, S., DeAntoni, T. 2003. Establishing the benefits of research experiences for undergraduates: first findings from a three-year study. Science Education 88: 493-534.

 

Webber, K. L., Laird, T. F. N. and Brckalorenz, A. M. 2013. Student and faculty member engagement in undergraduate research. Research in Higher Education, 54 (2), pp. 227--249.