ABSTRACT

Teaching Music in Secondary Schools is the accompaniment to its practical-based counterpart Aspects of Teaching Secondary Music. Together they form a comprehensive resource for those engaged with Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development in Music.

Through this reader, student-teachers and practising teachers will be introduced to the big issues and ideas abounding in music teaching today.

part |2 pages

Section 1 What is music and music education?

chapter 1|22 pages

Ways of thinking about music

Political dimensions and educational consequences

chapter 2|11 pages

Finding the future in the past: historical perspectives on music education

Historical perspectives on music education Introduction: why study the history of music education?

chapter 3|13 pages

Research in the sociology of music education

Some introductory concepts

part |2 pages

Section 2 Music learning and musical development

chapter 4|12 pages

Music education

A European perspective

chapter 6|12 pages

Musical development in the primary years

Research in musical development

chapter 8|11 pages

Music with emotionally disturbed children

The status of music in special education

chapter 9|13 pages

Assessment in the arts

Issues of objectivity

chapter 10|11 pages

In search of a child’s musical imagination

Overture

part |2 pages

Section 3 Musical contexts

chapter 11|23 pages

ICT and the music curriculum

Music and ICT

chapter 13|12 pages

Relevance and transformation

Roles for world musics

chapter 14|16 pages

Instrumental teaching as music teaching

Learning to learn