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This paper examines Australia’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and uses external research frameworks to identify key issues for music educators and their graduate students. Survey and interview findings indicate artistic research is often recognized only when articulated in traditional academic language, with growing emphasis on research revenue separating research from teaching and reducing autonomy. 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This paper takes as its subject the new Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), drawing examples from research frameworks elsewhere to identify some of the pertinent issues facing music educators and their students. The findings from a series of surveys and short interviews suggest that the formal recognition of artistic research remains largely dependent on the articulation of that research into traditional academic language. Furthermore, the increasing focus on research as a form of revenue generation highlights the separation of research and teaching and the lessening of academic autonomy. The paper argues that a balance can be achieved only with a fundamental, systemic shift that recognises the new knowledge and innovative methodological approaches within artistic research and, equally, within the scholarship of teaching.  \nKeywords: Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA), music education, higher education, research.  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2010:1, 25-34  \nBackground  \nIn fourth species counterpoint, some notes are sustained in the added part while others in the given part move against them, often creating dissonance or instability. As Australian academics add more and more parts to the roles they play, the cantus firmus – the higher education framework in which we operate – appears to be pulling further away from the fundamental objectives of education. The situation is perhaps most problematic within the arts and arts education, wherein the increasing focus on research is exacerbated by the need for creative practice to please both artistic and academic audiences. It is ironic that the age of the managed, corporate university is the same as that within which creativity and innovation have been heralded as the backbone of Western knowledge economies. Somehow, creativity and innovation need to reclaim their central place within the  \nuniversity sector and prevent the “vampire academy” from draining its victims (Kroll, 2006, p. 3) of creativity, time and energy.  \nAs Thornton suggests, knowledge within the current environment “has replaced sheep and wool as a source of wealth but, according to the corporatised university, academics, like sheep, require careful management to get the best out of them”(2008, p. 5). While the research frameworks designed to manage (or herd) research differ according to location, traditionally notated‘scientific’ research remains the accepted norm, and most frameworks seek to “regularize creative practice – dissect, section and give acceptable academic shape to it”(Rosenberg, 2008, p. 5) . Music educators, and I refer here to educators in all music disciplines, often find themselves and their students “driven by the external art world and educational agendas that rarely reflect their own artistic motives and practice”(Carroll, 2006, n. p) .  \nIn February 2008 the then Minister for  \nInnovation, Industry, Science and Research (the Honorable Senator Kim Carr) announced‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ (ERA), a research quality and evaluation system with a 2009-10 budget of AUD$35.8 million. Academics in Australia now work within a government-directed research environment that recognises the value of artistic research (and accepts the funded outcomes of graduate practice-based students), routinely names buildings after its well-known arts alumni (and draws on the artistic reputations of its faculty to attract students), and expects those faculty to maintain a high-level artistic practice. This paper seeks to unravel some of the implications of this new ERA for Australian music educators.  \nTrialled in 2009 and fully implemented in 2","cbCail044f6xbAll","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail044f6xbAll","pdf",95631,"English","# Abstract\n# Background\n## Cantus firmus and higher education frameworks\n## Research management and academic autonomy\n## ERA objectives and implementation\n## Discipline clusters and Fields of Research (FoR)","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main concern regarding higher music education?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on managing the teaching-research-creative practice nexus, particularly where supervision and mentorship shape early career and graduate researchers’ experiences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the effect of ERA on artistic research recognition?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that formal recognition of artistic research depends largely on translating it into traditional academic language.\"},{\"question\":\"What ERA goals does the paper list?\",\"answer\":\"The objectives include establishing an evaluation framework, conducting a national stock-take, identifying excellence and emerging areas, and benchmarking research nationally and internationally.\"}]","Shifting the cantus firmus - Australian music educators and the ERA | PDF",1792079089,25]