Student-Centred Success in the Music Studio Environment: Improving Indigenous and Minority Student Success in Degree-level Studies,

Abstract

'Success for All' is a two-year evidence-based project that targets indigenous New Zealand (Maori) student success and minority (Pasifika) student success in New Zealand degree-level education. The team is interested in increasing rates of success by investigating the ways in which non-lecture teaching and learning helps or hinders student success in degree-level studies. This paper will focus on one faculty that includes the Schools of Music, Dance, Fine Arts, Architecture and Planning. The learning environment explored in this faculty is studio-based learning. The paper will contextualise the studio learning environment and describe the collection and analysis of student narratives. The paper will highlight data collected from the School of Music. Good practice will be identified and the integration of indigenous (Kaupapa Maori Research) and minority (Pasifika Research) methodologies and methods will be discussed.