Professional knowledge in music teacher education

The complexity of the various forms of knowledge and practices that are encountered by teachers, university lecturers, teacher trainers, student teachers, policy makers and researchers, demands careful thought and reflection. This book focuses on how knowledge is understood, what theories are held and the related assumptions that are made about teachers and learners, as well as how theory and practice can be understood, with useful and imaginative connections made between the two in music teacher education. 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 demonstrates how research can inform pedagogical approaches in music teacher education; methods, courses and field experiences, and prepare teachers for diverse learners from a range of educational settings.

Includes index.

Understandings of knowledge. 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 -- 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 -- Re-thinking professionalism in music teacher education. Different types of knowledges forming professionalism : a vision of post-millennial music teacher education / Sven-Erik Holgersen and P…