Teaching Music Differently

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of teaching and learning in music, presenting a rich variety of pedagogical thinking and practice to inspire practitioners and policymakers. Containing seven carefully-researched case studies of pedagogy, each chapter focuses on a music teacher in a very different context, from primary and secondary schools, to a special school, community choir and a prison. They present a holistic understanding of music pedagogy and why teachers ‘do what they do’, grounded in real world practice and critical reflection, to show that pedagogies are shaped by social expectations, institutional cultures, and the hopes of both students and teachers.