This book highlights issues that teachers of music in primary and secondary schools confront in their professional practice. It supports them in achieving a greater understanding of the curriculum and its implementation in the classroom.
A fine book that gets inside the profound challenge of music teaching. What is clear through the book is that primary teachers have - through the last 100 years - expressed profound underconfidence in the teaching of music. It is an issue of competence. It is also an issue of confidence.
The chapters in this book diagnose the causes and consequences of these fears, but also offer a series of strategies about how they are resolved through practice, curriculum and teacher education.