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Publication Date: 2020-Jul
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Editorial Research: Music Education in a Time of Pandemic
Daubney, Alison; Fautley, Martin
British Journal of Music Education, v37 n2 p107-114 Jul 2020
This article, written at the time it was taking place, discusses the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on music education in schools, focusing on the UK. It discusses how schools and teachers have had to make a sudden shift to a largely on-line modality, and the effects of these on teaching and learning in music. It asks questions of curriculum and assessment, especially with regard to the fact that classroom teachers in England are having to use their professional judgment to provide grades for external examinations, where hitherto these would have come from examination boards. It questions the ways in which teachers have been inadequately prepared and supported for this, by years of neoliberal undermining of confidence. It goes on to question accountability, and teacher training, raising issues which, at the time of writing, are of significant concern or music education.
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Role, Tests, Testing, Neoliberalism, Self Efficacy, Accountability, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Music Teachers, Crisis Management, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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