Professional knowledge 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 will appeal to those interested in the development of appropriate professional knowledge and pedagogic practices in music teacher education.

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…