ERIC Number: EJ1442977
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1063-2913
EISSN: EISSN-1940-4395
The Place of Music in a Semi-Devolved System of School Improvement -- The English Context
Martin Fautley
Arts Education Policy Review, v125 n4 p290-299 2024
In England, there is a National Curriculum in place which is intended to outline what will be taught and learned in each of the required subjects in state schools, music being one of these subjects. However, for some years, a right-wing conservative government has been working on systemic change, which removes many schools from state control and lets them operate independently; these schools are known as "academies." Alongside this academization program, there has also been considerable governmental intervention in the content of the subject of music in schools. This governmental intervention needs to be viewed against a background of promotion of what the government's own school inspection body has referred to as "cultural capital," although this is far removed from Bourdieu's use of the term and is more concerned with the promotion of what can be seen as middle-class virtues, and bourgeois cultural views.
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Middle Class, Foreign Countries, Music Education, Educational Change, Intervention, Political Attitudes, Cultural Capital, Educational Improvement, Inspection, Organizational Change
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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