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Understanding Music Education - Exploring Children''s Musical Worlds

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book is a contemporary analysis of children s music education, combining theoretical insight with practical application. It examines how children engage with, and think about, music and how an understanding of this can empower rich approaches to teaching and learning.

Key topics include: an overview of music education as a field of study, musical imagination in thought and practice, musical worlds created with, and for, children and a range of perspectives on musicality and musical knowledge in childhood.

This is essential reading for anyone involved in music education with children, including music leaders working in community settings, and for primary school teachers, and those training to teach, seeking to deepen their own professional understanding.

Mary Stakelum is Area Leader, Music Education at the Royal College of Music. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Music Education as a Field of Study
Chapter 2: Perspectives on Music, Musicality and Musical Knowledge
Chapter 3: Musical Imagination in Thought and Practice
Chapter 4: Musical Worlds Created for Children
Chapter 5: Ways In: Entering the Musical Worlds of Children
Chapter 6: Music Created With Children
Chapter 7: Into the Future

About the author

Following her initial education in Ireland, Mary Stakelum undertook postgraduate studies at the Kodaly Institute in Kecskemet and at the University of London, gaining her PhD in 2005 from the Institute of Education on ‘Transmission, Transformation and Replication: Case Studies of Practice in an Irish Primary School Setting’. Her publications include journal articles, invited book chapters and edited volumes, and these reflect her research focus on musical development in children and young people, growth and development of teacher knowledge, and intercultural perspectives on music curriculum. Her teaching experience spans school, conservatoire, and university level, and she has held leadership positions on a variety of programmes in higher education. She is currently Area Leader, Music Education at the Royal College of Music, editor in chief of Music Education Research and a Trustee of the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research, and their nominated representative on the steering group of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies.

Report

This publication represents a significant contribution to music education literature, in that it stimulates an in-depth reflection on the fundamental assumptions underlying music education practices. It is a valuable resource for students, specialist and generalist teachers, music facilitators in childcare and community settings, music teacher educators, and for those who want to develop a more critical understanding of music education.
Andrea Sangiorgio Review inbox 20231008

Product details

Authors Mary Stakelum, Mary (Bath Spa University UK) Stakelum, Stakelum Mary
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2018
 
EAN 9781473914353
ISBN 978-1-4739-1435-3
No. of pages 128
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

EDUCATION / General, Education, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

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