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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.
Bringing it All Together: ‘Knowing Music in the Bones is What Counts.’ (Finney, 2015)
Bringing it All Together: ‘Knowing Music in the Bones is What Counts.’ (Finney, 2015)
Introduction
As this book draws to a close, this chapter offers opportunities to review and reflect, focusing on the wholeness of music education and the place of primary music teaching as a vital stepping stone in a child’s musical journey.
The potential role of music and music education in aiding the transition from primary to secondary school is considered, along with some practical ideas for improving the experiences between phases. This links directly to our need to collaborate with others if we really want to join up different parts of music education.
The book concludes where it started, in thinking ...
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