Leon de Bruin

Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication

Leon R de Bruin

Journal article  |  2021  |  PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC

While the ensemble is a ubiquitous learning environment within jazz education, opportunities to learn through engagement in ensemb..

Music education in Australian schools: An essential place for all students

Leon de Bruin

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

The role of music education in the school curriculum reflects the evolving and contested nature of music’s place within state and ..

Pedagogies of difference: a framework for pedagogical adaptation and creative climates

Leon de Bruin

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Pedagogies of difference: a framework for pedagogical adaptation and creative climates

Instrumental music tuition in schools is a powerful way teachers can guide students to immerse in detailed and specific aspects of..

Instrumental Music Educators in a COVID landscape: a reassertion of relationality and connection in teaching practice

Leon de Bruin

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Psychology

For many countries instrumental music tuition in secondary schools is a ubiquitous event that provides situated and personalized i..

Epoché and Objectivity in Phenomenological Meaning-Making in Educational Research

Leon de Bruin

Book Chapter  |  2021

Epoché within phenomenology sets aside or suspends assumptions and resistance to prejudices that rest on the principal that humans..

“If you don’t change you get left behind”: Playing in the Banda Italiana Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in Melbourne, Australia

Leon de Bruin, Jane Southcott

Book Chapter  |  2020

Community Music at the Boundaries examines how music enhances the lives of those living in what might be considered marginalized s..

Apprenticing the jazz performer through ensemble collaboration: A qualitative enquiry

Leon R de Bruin, Paul Williamson, Emily Wilson

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MUSIC EDUCATION

The one-to-one teacher–student relationship is a common learning configuration within jazz education. However, opportunities to le..

Improvising Musicians' Self-Regulation and Distributed Creativities: A Phenomenological Investigation.

Leon de Bruin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Thinking Skills and Creativity

This paper explores musical improvisation, examining the learning processes utilized in acquiring improvisational skill, and the d..

Creative Ecologies in Education Futures

Leon de Bruin, Anne M Harris

Book Chapter  |  2019

The challenge to foster greater creativity in education systems represents a range of diverse and complex affordances and constrai..

Expert improvisers' formal, informal and situated influences on learning, motivation and self-efficacy: a qualitative study

Leon R de Bruin

Journal article  |  2019  |  MUSIC EDUCATION RESEARCH

For musicians, learning to improvise requires individual and collaborative skill and knowledge that in experts is acquired over ye..