Table of Contents

1. The misrepresentation of teaching 2. Passing it on: examination music in Further Education 3. Researching Pedagogy: questions, methods, conceptual framework and analysis 4. ‘Give it a go, then think about it’: an inclusive pedagogy in a Special School 5. ‘You need to find the slot within the person where the music fits’: a social awareness and development pedagogy in a Young Offender’s Institution 6. Pedagogic discourses: Disciplinary, Economic, Therapeutic and Critical 7. Creating Happy and Imaginative Musice Environments: music in the early years 8. 'I wish this lesson could just go on and on': the pleasures and challeneges of teaching music in a primary school 9. 'It's not about me': teaching music in a Secondary School. By Donna Cummins, Anna Mariguddi and Susan Weir 10. School music pedagogies: traces of history 11. 'Touching the infinite': Inspiring individuality in a conservatoire environment. By Bethan Garrett 12. Creating communal identity through music: leadership of community choirs 13. Cross-case analysis: How structure and agency shape music pegagogies 14. Using the research to improve practice and argument

About the Author

Tim Cain is Professor of Education at Edge Hill University, UK.

Joanna Cursley is a freelance researcher, specialising in the impact of music on offenders and ex-offenders. Jo was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.