Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction 1. Ways of Thinking About Music: Political Dimensions and Educational Consequences 2. Finding the Future in the Past: Historical Perspectives on Music Education 3. Research in the Sociology of Music Education: Some Introductory Concepts 4. Music Education: A European Perspective 5. Music Psychology and the Secondary Music Teacher 6. Musical Development in the Primary Years 7. Planning for Transfer and Transition in Music Education 8. Music with Emotionally Disturbed Children 9. Assessment in the Arts: Issues of Objectivity 10. In Search of a Child's Musical Imagination 11. An Overview of the Use of ICT in the Music Curriculum 12. The Place of Composing in the Music Curriculum 13. Relevance and Transformation: Roles for World Musics 14. Instrumental Teaching as Music Teaching 15. The Art of Improvisation and the Aesthetics of Imperfection
