Gig Based Learning - a podcast by Dr Brad Fuller

Don’t You Dare Close Your Eyes! In our last post I revealed that we’re living in an Education Multiworld™ and finished with the question: “So, how’s your education world?” . Maybe you’re like me back in the 90s with Jeremy Alsop and you’re thinking: “I have a world?”. Or maybe you already had a world but this Education Multiworld™ concept has blown your mind and you’re desperate to know more? Well...

Circa 1991/92: I’m 21 and studying at Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in the Bachelor of Music (Improvisation) degree which includes electric bass guitar lessons with Jeremy Alsop . Jeremy has just returned from living in New York, playing with The Cats, and has adopted a “New York state of mind”. In a moment that has stayed with me ever since, he enters the room and opens with “ How’s y...

Last time, we promised DnM that we’d “get our heads together” and start asking the right questions. In honour of Regelski, I’m going to call this “sliding into philosophy”. Regelski reminded us that when we slide into philosophy we have some rules to go by: like, you need to know what’s already been said on a topic. But what are the topics and what are the questions? The Septem Circumstantiae Ente...

You know that famous Oscar Wilde dad joke about assumptions? "When you assume something, you might make an ass of yourself, and/ or me? And, have you ever noticed how many asses there are wandering about in the field of classroom music education? Maybe there’s a connection? Our Inextricably Linked Thoughts and Actions Check out this passage from DnM , page 10: Our thoughts and actions are intimate...

Pedagogy Everywhere Gee I hear the word “pedagogy” a lot. I hear it pronounced in a myriad of ways too. Woah - I just googled it. It’s not just me: According to Google, there are at least ten pronunciations of pedagogy loose in the wild as we speak. This explains why it’s high on my list I call “ Say This Word Second™ ” just below, diaspora and hegemony. As you might have gleaned, I use pedagogy,...

Fun fact: I don't jog for exercise, it's so I can listen to podcasts. I love them. I’m also one of those people who grew up making pretend radio shows with a microphone into the family cassette recorder. I even had a radio show on community radio station Radio Northern Beaches with my friend Colin Klupiec back in the day. So, when I saw the “podcast” button on Substack, I couldn’t help myself. My...

After ten years of studying educational change, Hargreaves et al published Learning to Change: Teaching Beyond Subjects and Standards in 2001 noting that: A new orthodoxy of schooling appears to be emerging in many parts of the world, especially in the predominantly Anglophone nations. (p. xi) They define the new orthodoxy as learning which is based on: … prescribed standards (especially in litera...

Hello! Man, I’ve consumed masses of mass media in the last fifty years or so. So, look out for plenty of Gen X pop culture references (I was born in the “ Summer of ‘69 ”… Oh Yeah!”) if you decide to take this journey with me. Here comes one now… As I make my way around the education community, I sometimes feel like Elmer J Fudd in one of my favourite Looney Tunes ( or was it Merrie Melodies ?) ca...