This Framework is intended to act as a guide for those individuals and organisations seeking to develop forms of lifelong learning and professional development that are rooted in a culture of reflective and reflexive practice.

Within a study on ‘musicians as lifelong learners’, explorative biographical research was used. When analysing the learning biographies informed by grounded theory, the emergence of profession-related health issues was striking. More than half of the portrayed musicians suffered from both physical and …

Within the study ‘Musicians as Lifelong Learners: Discovery through Biography’, biographical research was used to examine key developments in the professional lives of musicians, focusing on the relationship between their life, educational and career span ant their learning styles. This resulted in a …

This article considers four learning biographies from professional musicians. Each musician holds a different portfolio career and is from a different age category. The key questions I ask are: "How does one learn as a musician?", "What knowledge, attitudes, values and artistic skills are necessary to …

Yo! Opera asked the Lectorate Lifelong Learning in Music to evaluate the project The Operaflat, which was part of the fourth edition of the Yo! Opera Festival in Utrecht, in 2007. During the project primary school pupils of the public primary school ‘Openbare Basisschool Overvecht’, residents of the …

Op verzoek van Yo! Opera heeft het lectoraat Lifelong Learning voor Musici het project De Operaflat geëvalueerd, dat onderdeel was van de vierde editie van het Yo! Opera Festival in 2007 te Utrecht. Tijdens het project hebben basisschoolleerlingen van de Openbare Basisschool Overvecht, bewoners van de …

The music profession and the professional musician; a reflection. This reflection will adress trends and changes of the music profession and the professional musician. First some background will be given, after that I will address three types of careers that are either emerging or changing and finally …

Various learning contexts (conservatoire, workplace and self initiated learning) which are relevant for the training of professional musicians as lifelong learners are explored.

The concept of lifelong learning refers to the several skills able to provide for needs of music graduates. Such as it occurs with other areas, the domain of music is in constant modification, either for the incorporation of new technologies, either had the cultural demands or for the multiplicity of …