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Keith Swanwick's approach to music education is characterised by concern for musical and wider artistic processes, shaped by his experience as a teacher and performing musician. His selected works chart the course of his thinking, examining music and arts as essential for the development of mind, scrutinizing the nature of music education transa
List of contents
1. The arts in education: dreaming or wide awake 2. The Parameters of Music Education 3. The Model in Action 4. What Makes Music Musical 5. The Sequence of Musical Development: A Study of Children's Composition 6. Musical Development: Revisiting a Generic Theory 7. Education in a Pluralist Society 8. Intuition, Analysis and Symbolic Forms 9. Musical Knowledge in Action 10. Musical Value 11. Principles of Music Education 12. Music Education: Closed or Open?
About the author
Keith Swanwick is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK, previously Professor of Music Education and Dean of Research. He is editor of Music Education (Routledge 2012), a four-volume collection of significant work in the field.
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Keith Swanwick‘s approach to music education is characterised by concern for musical and wider artistic processes, shaped by his experience as a teacher and performing musician. His selected works chart the course of his thinking, examining music and arts as essential for the development of mind, scrutinizing the nature of music education transa
