As teachers, stepping back from the ‘action’ can feel counterintuitive. We invest ourselves in the detail and feel this is our place. However, in working in this way we can forgo our understanding of the ’bigger picture’ – as the well-known idiom goes, we ‘can’t see the woods for the trees’. When we work with…
Tag: Authenticity
Some Brief Thoughts on Characterising Effective Pedagogies in Music Education
For some time now I have been wrestling with some considerations that I feel need to underpin our educative interactions as music teachers. My thoughts have been continually prompted by classroom action and reflection, and I will now think these considerations ‘out loud’ and position them as pedagogical (educative) conditions that I feel need to…
Dr Cade Bonar 