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Teacher as Guide: The Teacher's Role in the Secondary School Music Lesson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Tim Cain
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This article is an attempt to explore what we Secondary School Music Teachers should do in our music lessons. To illuminate this problem the author postulates two rôles which he believes many music teachers adopt more or less whole-heartedly: the ‘Instructor’, who passes on a body of received skills, information and perhaps values; and the ‘Enabler’, who sets up conditions in which his or her pupils may discover music.

Although both rôles can be fruitful in some areas of the music curriculum, the author considers them inadequate, and attempts to describe a new role which teachers might find more helpful. He outlines ways in which the teacher who adopts this role might operate when teaching Composition, Literature Studies, Audition, Skills and Performance (C(L)A(S)P).

Type
Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 5 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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