Resisting the Employability Agenda
Part of APME Miami 2026
Wednesday 3 June 2026·7:00 pm
There is a tendency in popular music education (PME) to focus solely on training students for employment within the music industries. However, how does this vocational focus negatively impact students? In this presentation, I critically examine PME’s preoccupation with entrepreneurialism and highlight how we might resist this vocational trend.
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