Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

<p><em>The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music</em> draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers. </p><p>The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a summary of the key ideas and issues raised questions to promote discussion and reflective practice and annotated further reading lists to extend thinking. </p><p>Taking a thematic approach and including a short introduction to each theme the chapters cover: </p><ul> <ul> <p> </p> <li>Analysing your own work as a music teacher; </li> <p> </p> <li>Concepts of musicality; </li> <p> </p> <li>Notions of musical development and progression; </li> <p> </p> <li>Pedagogies for teaching music musically; </li> <p> </p> <li>Music inside and outside the school; </li> <p> </p> <li>Formal informal and non-formal approaches to music education; </li> <p> </p> <li>Productive methods of assessment and transition for music education; </li> <p> </p> <li>Creativity and music education; </li> <p> </p> <li>Supporting the gifted and talented in music; </li> <p> </p> <li>Using ICT within music education.</li> </ul> </ul><p>Aimed at trainee and newly qualified teachers including those working towards Masters-level qualifications as well practicing teachers this accessible but critically provocative text will be an essential resource for all teachers that wish to deepen their understanding of Music Education.</p>