School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Yaxin Zhang
PhD by research
Thesis
Thesis Title & Description
Instrumental Teachers' Support: How to Deal with Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among Chinese Adolescent Students? (Provisional Title)
- Supervisors: Dr Naomi Norton, Dr Daniel March, Dr Andrea Schiavio
The thesis focuses on specific pathways that Chinese instrumental teachers use in order to gain deeper insights into Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) according to existing academic research and how they transmit or develop relative knowledge and then apply it in music lessons. In addition, it will discuss the effective strategies that music educators utilise for supporting adolescent students in managing MPA based on teachers’ self-reflection and feedback from pupils. This project aims to fill the gap in the association between music teachers’ support and MPA coping methods. It might also be beneficial to offer approaches that music teachers are able to apply to get related knowledge about MPA and how to transmit it to students in music teaching lessons. Furthermore, it possibly contributes to in-service and pre-service instrumental teachers collecting methods for addressing MPA and to the development of Chinese music education.
Biography
Biography
I am a new PhD international student from the Department of Music at University of York under the supervision of Dr Naomi Norton, Dr Daniel March and Dr Andrea Schiavio. My research interest is about exploring methods in order to improve musicians’ health and wellbeing from teachers’ support in the context of Chinese music education.
In terms of my postgraduate study, I graduated from the University of Queensland and gained a Master’s degree in music with high-distinction grades. I completed a fundamental research proposal related to my PhD project with the supervision of Mr Patrick Murphy. In addition, I got an undergraduate degree in music education at Wuhan Conservatory of Music and won national and alumni scholarships for three consecutive years.
Research
Research Interests
Musicians' Health and Wellbeing, Music Education, Music Psychology
