ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a theoretical lens for understanding how the development of values and beliefs is interconnected with the social world. It draws together the Bourdieuian framework and the literature described the narratives, for the purposes of illuminating how the teachers' habitus and the doxa of music/music education are enacted in their classrooms, and how this impacts upon the music making and learning of their students. The book looks particularly at the ways in which the habitus of music teachers and the doxa of Western music-making practices influence music pedagogy and curriculum by using examples from contemporary literature around music education philosophy, theory and practice. Narrative inquiry is an epistemological approach to research through which the knowledge of people's lived experience is explored and interrogated.
