Music Education as Critical Theory and Practice: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Music Education as a Reproductive Force - Ideology, Musical Meaning, Social Groups and Identity: To construe and to construct...what do we mean by 'the sociology of music education' and what's the point of it anyway?
• Why 'ideology' is still relevant for critical thinking in music education
• Music education, cultural capital and social group identity
• Musical meaning and social reproduction: a case for retrieving autonomy
• Musical identities, learning, and education: some cross-cultural issues. Part II Gender and Music Education: Music, gender and education
• a report on some exploratory research
• Gender identity, musical experience and schooling
• The emergence of gender as an issue in music education. Part III Assessment and Curriculum Content in Music Education: The assessment of composition: style and experience
• Music as a media art: evaluation and assessment in the contemporary classroom
• From the Western classics to the world: secondary music teachers' changing attitudes in England, 1982 and 1998. Part IV Informal Learning and the Music Classroom: What can music educators learn from popular musicians?
• Informal learning in the music classroom: a seven-stage program
• Popular music education in and for itself, and for 'other' music: current research in the classroom
• Group co-operation, inclusion and disaffected pupils: some responses to informal learning in the music classroom
• Teenagers, musical identity and classical music: the classroom as a catalyst. Part V Aural Learning, Informal Learning, and the Instrumental Teaching Studio: Musical 'learning styles' and 'learning strategies' in the instrumental lesson: some emergent fi
• Informal learning and aural learning in the instrumental music lesson: findings from a research-and-development pilot project
• Name index.