Music in the Primary School

ISBN-13: 9780193364950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str.

Janet Mills

Opis

This new edition of Music in the Primary School, a standard handbook for many years, was completed by the author in 2007. It contains new research, with the same practical application (for musicians and non-specialists alike), and takes into account requirements of the National Curriculum.

Recenzje

Mills's publication cogently reflects the ongoing debate about the role and place of music in the primary curriculum. Her position is clear, that music should not be organized as a separate subject taught merely by a specialist, but as an integral part of the whole curriculum and with the generalist teacher fully involved . . . Currently, with scant attention given to music education within postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) training, resulting in a lack of rationale for the inclusion of the subject and often a lack of confidence in teaching it, this book would appear to be as significant in its third edition as it was in its first, not only to those who are starting out in their teaching careers but to all those music-based agencies involved with the learning development of primary school pupils.

O autorze

Dr Janet Mills began her career teaching music (and mathematics) in a comprehensive school in West Yorkshire. Subsequently, she was a teacher educator at Westminster College in Oxford and the University of Exeter. Her work as an HM Inspector of Schools included observation of more than 1000 instrumental lessons and the development and implementation - with instrumental teachers - of the first national system for inspecting Local Authority Instrumental Music Services. Along the way, she learnt violin and singing, and taught herself to play several other instruments. Janet Mills was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London and in 2004 won a National Teaching Fellowship. She wrote Music in the School (2005), Music in the Primary School (1991), and many articles in books, magazines, and research journals.