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High quality music education can start children on a journey that lasts a lifetime. Teaching Primary Music gives beginning primary school teachers clear guidance on how to successfully teach music without recourse to specialized training. This helpful text places music within the wider context of the primary curriculum with clear links to the new National Curriculum in England. It also offers advice on how to provide evidence for and assess musical development and how to plan for music education across the EYFS and key stages 1 & 2. Useful information on using the musical resources in your local community to enhance the opportunities offered to your school is also provided. This is essential reading for all students studying primary music on initial teacher education courses, including undergraduate (BEd, BA with QTS), postgraduate (PGCE, School Direct, SCITT), and also NQTs. Alison Daubney is a music educator, researcher and curriculum adviser at the University of Sussex.
Exploring Musical Learning
Exploring Musical Learning
Learning can be considered as the process by which people acquire, understand, apply and extend knowledge, concepts, skills and attitudes. Children and young people also discover their feelings towards each other and towards learning itself. Learning is thus a combination of cognitive, social and affective elements. The teachers’ recognition of what learners bring to their education is crucial. (Pollard et al., 2014: 34)
Introduction
This chapter explores some of the complexities of musical learning – what learning is, how and where we learn and how music in schools contributes to developing musicianship. Pollard et al.’s (2014) broad definition of learning demonstrates that music education potentially contributes to all of these processes. Yet music also goes beyond this; as Reimer (1989: 50) ...
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