Category: ReLearnMusicTeaching Series

Our ninth post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. One more and we complete our two weeks with John’s chapter before we move to the Gary Spruce chapter two. To…

Summary of Blog post 1 Why did we start? Thanks to Twitter and a group of fellow music educators I have started a collaborative blogging effort to work through a selection of the tasks in the edited volume ‘Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School‘. The venture was inspired by a tweet I saw…

Our eight post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. Two more and we complete out two weeks with John’s chapter before we move to the Gary Spruce chapter two. To…

Our seventh post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. What opportunities are missed for collaboration across the arts? Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser Since becoming a father, my physical activity philosophy has…

Our sixth post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. Can a case be made for strongly distinguishing the arts from the rest of the curriculum? Are the arts concerned with…

Our fifth post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. In what situations do you consider yourself to be most musically creative? When is it that you feel most musically alive?…

Our fourth post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. On page 7 of Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School (3rd Edition) John Finney provides a quote from the…

Our third post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. Music education was conceived as an education in citizenship and in many respects as an education to be regulated in the…

Our second post in our (re)learning to teach music series. The posts over this week and next week focus on the tasks in John Finney’s chapter ‘The Place of Music in the Secondary School’. What kind of subject is music? How do you view music as a subject of study? Consider the for and against…