ABSTRACT
Music education is a field in which there is a considerable amount of published material, ranging from the justificatory to the critical, from advice on pedagogical practice to provocative alternative paradigms and a host of specific teaching methodologies. An approach to music education has been characterised by concern for musical and to some extent wider artistic processes. Music education is also very complex organisationally, having multiple sources of funding and involving teachers from a wide range of musical traditions and with varying professional expertise. The journals of music education in most developed countries; for instance in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Canada and there is an International Journal of Music Education published by the International Society for Music Education (ISME). When evaluating any music education transaction, perhaps a primary school music lesson, a choir or band rehearsal, or an instrumental or vocal lesson, an evaluator might ask how many 'stars' become visible.
