Music-ITE

The aim of this workshop was: To identify pedagogy that will help young people to think creatively through music and to understand how composers think.

With the presentation of their paper “meNet Learning Outcomes in Music Teacher Training” the partners for music education (meNet) take a clear stance on the question of the competences that a music teacher should have at his or her disposal.

This resource attempts to identify some of the generic process involved in classroom compositions and suggests some of the possibilities that may be suitable for generalist primary trainees, with no specialist musical knowledge.

A critique of the 'Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum, Final Report' by Sir Jim Rose

This resource is an attempt to begin the process of clarification as to what cross-curricular learning might look like in the context of primary music, post Rose review.

This resource suggests how we might develop musicians who understand the totality of music education, drawing on best practice from all contexts and capable of brokering deals between different providers.

"In this paper I explore the musical general knowledge of 46 applicants for places on a secondary Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) music course"

A response to Vic Gammon’s interesting article concerning the subject knowledge of intending PGCE music students and how such knowledge might be identified.