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Music Education in England, 1950-2010 - The Child-Centred Progressive Tradition (Paperback)
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Music Education in England, 1950-2010 - The Child-Centred Progressive Tradition (Paperback)
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John Finney examines the child-centred progressive tradition to
create a fresh way of evaluating ideas and practices that have
evolved since 1950, that have shaped the lives of music teachers
and their pupils, and that have now become disfigured, residual and
altogether lost in the light of social, cultural and political
change. The book is a critique of the present situation with an
intention to expose the dangers in our current pursuit of future
gains that are thought to serve the making and sustaining of the
social order. The project draws in major debates of the period,
along with their protagonists, counter-pointed by the voices of
teachers and pupils. At the same time, the structuring voices of
policy and governance become ever louder as we reach the present
time. Finney presents a compelling, analytical account through a
series of six episodes, each seeking to capture the spirit and
fervour characteristic of a particular phase within the period
studied. In the concluding chapter the narrative developed is
reviewed. From this the idea of music education as an ethical
pursuit is proposed. Finney argues that classroom relationships can
be thought of as playfully dialogic, where teacher and pupil remain
curious, and where there is serious attention to what is to be
taught and why. This will always need to be negotiated, with the
expressed and inferred needs of children working together to find a
critical approach to what is being learnt. Finney's book provides
fresh inspiration for practitioners and new challenges for
researchers, and as such is a landmark in the field of arts and
music education.
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