The Diversity, Inclusion & Gender Equality (DIGE) Working Group is happy to launch ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Music Education: An Invitation for Action‘.
With this resource package, the group welcomes all AEC member institutions to explore, discuss and implement practices fostering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Higher Music Education (HME), inviting peer colleagues to collectively dream up possible futures for HME through DEI work, which responds to the need to accommodate the plurality of backgrounds, artistic paradigms, access capabilities, identities and aspirations amongst current as well as future students and staff.
The publication contains 5 chapters, all of them grounded on the notion of resistance which can emerge when envisioned changes are planned and implemented in the institutions:
The resource package will be followed by an open call for AEC members to host the group’s workshop in the upcoming years. The workshop will provide an opportunity for HME staff and students to discuss how to co-construct and maintain an equitable and inclusive teaching and learning environment, and how to promote practices that support previously excluded individuals, minority groups and communities. Stay tuned for the DIGE8000 spaceship crew to come!
The Diversity, Inclusion & Gender Equality (DIGE) Working Group Working Group is part of the AEC – Empowering Artists as Makers in Society project (ARTEMIS, 2022-2025), under Work Package 8: Shaping and implementing fair, inclusive, diverse and gender-equal frameworks in HME institutions. Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission.
