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NSW schools are losing senior music students in significant numbers. Teachers say they’re dropping the subject in year 12 to ensure a higher ATAR.
Kids can stop music lessons at any time, due to boredom or disliking practice. It’s OK to let them stop if they genuinely don’t enjoy it, but it’s best to test a few things out first.
When children take up instruments they’re not passionate about, most don’t stick with music for long, and that’s a shame.
Researchers who looked at over 110,000 students found that learning an instrument in elementary school, and continuing music study into high school, significantly improves school achievement.
The Suzuki method can work, but requires a high level of parental involvement.
What kind of students are we raising when music is seen as a “frill?” The decision to drastically cut music education is a misguided policy.
Nagging or bribing a child to practise their musical instrument only makes the activity feel like a chore. Here’s how to support your child and bring back harmony to the whole family.
Children with difficulty singing can be labelled as ‘nonmusical’ by parents, teachers and pop culture. This toxic idea of ‘talent’ can deprive people of music’s benefits for the rest of their lives.
Several brain regions engage in an amazing symphony to produce music. What then are the benefits of music training on a child?
A focus on core subjects for 16-year-olds should not exclude arts, music or drama.
The majority of music education teachers in American schools are white, and education focuses on Western classical music. What impact does it have?
Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school’s broader community work together.
A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
Technological advances in music production have all but obliterated the need for popular music to be transcribed into musical notation. So why is musical literacy still important?
Not all children move through the same range of processes when they compose music – but those processes, in themselves, nurture important human qualities.
There are those who believed that BB King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar player, including the man himself.
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
Aspects of Whiplash are implausible – but it does reflect the real and insidious bullying culture that exists in music education.
We rightly marvel at the skills of a talented musician, especially witnessing them perform live. But how does someone become so skilled? Obviously hours and hours of dedicated practice is a necessity…
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Lecturer in Musicology, Dan School of Drama & Music, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
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Professor and Head of Music Therapy, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Music Education, Public Voices Fellow, DePaul University
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Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Head of School, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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PhD candidate, University of Newcastle
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor of Education Research, School of Education, Durham University
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Senior Research Associate, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Culture and Communication, University of Leicester
