Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education

by Eva Georgii-Hemming, Pamela Burnard, Sven-Erik Holgersen

Overview

Internationally renowned contributors address a number of fundamental questions designed to take the reader to the heart of current debates around knowledge, practice, professionalism, and learning and teaching in music as well as considering how all these elements are influenced by economic, cultural and social forces. The book will appeal to those interested in the development of appropriate professional knowledge and pedagogic practices in music teacher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409473022
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	03/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eva Georgii-Hemming is Professor Chair and Head of Musicology at the School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden. She manages graduate courses in music education, philosophy and sociology of music. International publications and presentations include questions about the concept of knowledge, Bildung, informal learning, and the value and role of music in education as well as in people’s lives.

Pamela Burnard is a Reader in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK where she manages Higher Degree courses in Arts, Creativity, Education and Culture (ACEC) and Educational Research. She is internationally known for her work in the areas of creative learning and teaching, and musical creativities in professional and educational practice.

Sven-Erik Holgersen is Associate Professor in Music Education at Aarhus University, Department of Education, Copenhagen, where he manages master programmes in educational subjects. Holgersen teaches music education and research methodology at master and PhD levels, and his research is focused on early childhood music education and music teacher education.

Pamela Burnard, Eva Georgii-Hemming, Øivind Varkøy, Sven-Erik Holgersen, Finn Holst, Jonathan Stephens, Suzanne L. Burton, Andreas Lehmann-Wermser, Kirsten Fink-Jensen, Teresa Mateiro, Maria Westvall, Rosie Perkins, Angeliki Triantafyllaki.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Pamela Burnard; Part I Understandings of Knowledge: Music as knowledge in an educational context, Eva Georgii-Hemming; Technical rationality, techne and music education, Øivind Varkøy; Knowledge and professionalism in music teacher education, Sven-Erik Holgersen and Finn Holst; Artistic knowledge in practice, Jonathan Stephens; Problematizing what counts as knowledge and the production of knowledges in music, Pamela Burnard. Part II Professional and Pedagogical Practice: Constructing professional paths in a school-embedded methods course, Suzanne L. Burton; Artistic knowledge among music education students in Germany: being trained to be exactly what?, Andreas Lehmann-Wermser; Astonishing practices: a teaching strategy in music teacher education, Kirsten Fink-Jensen; The cultural dimensions of music teachers’ professional knowledge, Teresa Mateiro and Maria Westvall; School and conservatoire music teachers’ ‘vocational habitus’: lessons for music teacher education, Rosie Perkins and Angeliki Triantafyllaki. Part III Re-Thinking Professionalism in Music Teacher Education: Different types of knowledges forming professionalism: a vision of post-millennial music teacher education, Sven-Erik Holgerson and Pamela Burnard; Meeting the challenges of music teacher education, Eva Georgii-Hemming; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'In questioning the ownership of professional knowledge this book achieves its aim of prompting the reader to reflect critically on "your own perspectives as well as the perspectives offered in the book". If the result is not entirely comfortable for us as teacher educators, that is perhaps a necessary condition for critical reflection, it is perhaps recognition of the central role that politics plays in the construction of knowledge, and it is also an indication of a job well done by the editors and contributors to this book'. British Journal of Music Education

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