Becoming an artist: exploring the motivations of undergraduate students at a regional Australian University
研究了澳大利亚一所地区大学120名创意与表演艺术专业学生的动机，发现他们选择学习和追求艺术职业的原因，对艺术教育提供者有参考价值。
Despite the well-documented challenges that artists face in developing and sustaining a viable career, there is ongoing interest and enrolment in higher education programmes in the creative and performing arts. At the same time, extant research demonstrates that a higher education degree does not necessarily lead to enhanced career success for graduates of these programmes. Hence, this paper explores survey data from 120 creative and performing arts students at a regional Australian higher education institution, in terms of their motivation to study at this level and to pursue a career as an artist. The findings reveal various insights into the factors that motivate this group of students, as well as issues of wider relevance to providers of higher education programmes in the creative and performing arts.