Performative Education: Redesigning Learning through Music Performance Practices

This study explores how music performance methodologies, supported by digital and AI-assisted tools, can transform learning spaces into dynamic, student-centred environments. Conducted in a tertiary music education setting, the research utilized masterclasses and music workshops enhanced by digital platforms for reflective documentation and AI-driven performance feedback. Those tools allowed students to track their progress, analyze their interpretative choices, and engage in peer collaboration beyond the traditional classroom. Findings reveal that integrating technology with performative methods significantly enhanced active participation, fostered intercultural conversation, and encouraged deeper reflection compared to traditional lecture-nased approaches. Students described the learning space as a hybrid “stage,” where digital engagement and AI-supported insights enriched improvisation, conversation and embodied interaction. The innovation of this study lies in merging performance pedagogy with educational technology, creating a forward-looking learning model as an interactive, co-created process. This approach demonstrated practical relevance to language and education innovation by cultivating adaptability, critical communication skills, and cultural literacy in physical and digital contexts. Ultimately, the study highlights the potential of AI-assisted performance practices to inspire inclusive, interdisciplinary, and technology-enhanced educational reform, thereby preparing learners to succeed in a global, connected and digitally advanced world

performative education, educational reform, AI-assisted learning

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