The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music education assessment, evaluation, and feedback as these apply to various forms of music
education within schools and communities. The central aims of this Handbook focus on broadening and deepening readers' understandings of and critical thinking about the problems, opportunities, spaces and places, concepts, and practical strategies that music educators and community music
facilitators employ, develop, and deploy to improve various aspects of music teaching and learning around the world.


Author: David J. Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/30/2019
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.80w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780190265182

About the Author

David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. He is the author of Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education, editor of Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues, founder and editor of the International Journal of Community Music, and an
award-winning composer/arranger with works published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include urban music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community
music, and topics in the philosophy of music and music education.

Gary E. McPherson is Ormond Professor of Music and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. He is a past President of the Australian and International Societies for Music Education and author of over 200 publications, including editing for OUP, The Child as
Musician, Musical Prodigies, and co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Music Education.