PGCE Research Bites 5 - Literacy in Secondary School Music with Matthew Green

We're back with another round of PGCE research bites! And we welcome back Matthew Green, who's been finding out how we can best encourage high quality literacy in the music classroom. Hopefully the mix of research and classroom-based enquiry and reflection will be a great worked example for our serving teacher friends! You can watch this episode on YouTube - https://smarturl.it/cardiffpartnership   References Alexander, R. (2020) A Dialogic Teaching Companion. Abingdon: Routledge. Aubrey, K. and Riley, A. (2019) Understanding & Using Educational Theories 2nd edn. London: Sage. Barton, G. (2014) 'Literacy and the Arts: Interpretation and Expression of Symbolic Form', in Barton, G. (ed.) Literacy in the Arts: Retheorising Learning and Teaching. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, p.14. Barton, M. L., Heidema, C., Jordan, D. (2002) ‘Teaching reading in mathematics and science (Reading and Writing in the Content Areas)’, Educational leadership, 60(3), pp. 24-28. Broomhead, P. 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