Designing an Entrepreneurial Learning Project

Abstract

Kelman guides the reader through the phases of her learning design using the steps of Design-based Research (Reeves 2009). The purpose of design-based research as the chosen methodology has been applied to develop educational principles based on empirical evidence of the way in which students learn music industry skills in a real-world music business, student-led enterprise. Kelman unpacks the contextual aspects of the curriculum design which focus on the core business of the YMI student enterprise; an annual four-stage, ten-hour music festival; managing and booking an all-ages venue; and delivering an annual youth music industry conference. She describes how these events were staged several times over a three-year period, each time growing in size, complexity, and outreach through her design interventions. The students are introduced in this chapter, and information related to how their learning was captured is also discussed.