ABSTRACT
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake of postmodern critiques. Focusing on secondary school music, and considering changes in approaches to teaching over time, this book seeks to understand the forces at play that enhance or undermine music’s contribution to a socially just curriculum for all. The author argues that the unique nature of disciplinary-derived knowledge provides students with essential cognitive development, and must be integrated with the turn to more inclusive, student-centred, and culturally responsive teaching. Connecting theoretical issues with concrete curriculum design, the book considers how we can give music students the benefits of specialised subject knowledge without returning to a traditional past.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|94 pages
Theoretical matters
part 2|106 pages
Into the classroom
chapter 7|16 pages
Recontextualising the horizontal part one
chapter 8|18 pages
Recontextualising the horizontal part two
chapter 10|15 pages
Curriculum coherence
part 3|28 pages
Looking to the future