Ensemble practices in the arts : A reflective matrix to enhance team work and collaborative learning in higher education
Gaunt, Helena; Treacy, Danielle (2020)
Gaunt, Helena
Treacy, Danielle
SAGE
2020
1474-0222
Gaunt, H., & Treacy, D. S. (2020). Ensemble practices in the arts: A reflective matrix to enhance team work and collaborative learning in higher education. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 19(4), 419–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022219885791
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023050340568
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023050340568
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Ensemble practices have been essential to the performing and visual fine arts over centuries. The skills of working in ensembles, including team work and collaborative learning, are increasingly understood to be critical and transferable professional attributes. However, much teaching of ensembles is practical and embodied, relying on tacit knowledge within a focused specialism. This kind of approach champions depth of expertise in a particular field, but may have limitations, particularly where more explicit awareness is needed to support transferring practical skills to new contexts. There is therefore a need to strengthen reflective practice in ways that connect explicit procedural understanding with tacit practical experience. To serve this purpose, this paper develops a reflective matrix as a framework to support dynamic reflection for students and teachers in higher arts education. The matrix emerges from analysis of the literature across music, theatre, dance and visual fine art.