Teaching music in secondary schools : a reader / edited by Gary Spruce.
| Other author | Spruce, Gary. |
| Other author | Open University. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge/Falmer, 2002. |
| Description | xviii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Ways of thinking about music: political dimensions and educational consequences / Gary Spruce -- Finding the future in the past: historical perspectives on music education / Stephanie E. Pitts -- Research in the sociology of music education: some introductory concepts / Lucy Green -- Music education: a European perspective / Janet Hoskyns -- Music psychology and the secondary music teacher / Alexandra Lamont -- Musical development in the primary years / Janet Mills -- Planning for transfer and transition in music education / Helen Coll -- Music with emotionally disturbed children / Yvonne Packer -- Assessment in the arts: issues of objectivity / Gary Spruce -- In search of a child's musical imagination / Robert Walker -- ICT and the music curriculum / Paul Wright -- The place of composing in the music curriculum / Ted Bunting -- Relevance and transformation: roles for world musics / Malcolm Floyd -- Instrumental teaching as music teaching / Keith Swanwick -- The art of improvisation and the aesthetics of imperfection / Andy Hamilton. |
| Abstract | This series brings together a range of articles, extracts from books and reports that inform an understanding of secondary schools in today's educational climate. |
| General note | Published in association with the Open University. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 041526233X |
| ISBN | 0415262348 (pbk.) |