Thinking and Making: Selections from the writings of John Paynter on music in education (Oxford Music Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0193355914 ISBN 13: 9780193355910

Publisher: Oxford University Press Music, 2008

Synopsis

For many, John Paynter has been the most significant figure in music education in Britain and beyond over the past 50 years. This collection of seminal writings embraces the core topics and values of music education and includes contributions from a range of publications, among them core text books and articles, as well as unpublished writings.

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About the Author

Mills is the editor and publisher of Amber-Allen Publishing.

Review

The selection presented enables re-evaluation of the work of John Paynter and in reviewing his thinking it is not long before its relevance to the present time becomes apparent. It offers an alternative to standardised curricula, to the prescription of outcomes, to standardised approaches to assessment, to prescribed strategies, to conventional thought about progression in musical learning, to the homogenising of ways of knowing and understanding and the systematic downgrading of intuitive understanding, to the teacher as unresponsive to what the pupil has to offer, to classrooms that proscribe pupils having ideas and lively classroom conversations, and to the marginalisation of thinking and making. It offers a way of being musical and knowing music. * John Finney, British Journal of Education * This is not an easy read, nor is it intended to be: Paynter wants to make us think, and he succeeds. This is writing of the highest quality - thought-provoking, passionate and perceptive . . . Who should read it? Every music teacher who cares about music education and its place in the school. It is clear that we all owe this man and his colleagues a great deal; now he is gone, the least we can do is preserve his work by reading his writings and, much more importantly, continuing to make music in the nation's classrooms. * Patrick Gazard, Music Teacher, September 2010 * Get hold of a copy of the book, where these ideas and many others are expressed much more eloquently. If you only buy one book this year, I would make it this one. * David Ashworth, www.teachingmusic.org.uk, August 2009 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Music
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0193355914
• ISBN 13: 9780193355910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Mills Janet, Paynter John