Art and Music

• Kate Hatton

This collection offers a theoretical perspective for tutors, teacher trainers and arts students on how to achieve inclusion in arts education. It identifies the absences in institutional thinking and suggests how we can work towards better theoretical and cultural understanding of inclusion in the field of arts education.

Supporting wellbeing in the Third and Fourth Ages

• Andrea Creech
• Susan Hallam
• Maria Varvarigou
• Hilary McQueen

Active Ageing with Music explores the powerful potential for active music-making to support wellbeing among older people.

The art of the children’s picture book writer and illustrator

• Karenanne Knight

This comprehensive, hands-on guide to writing and illustrating picture books for young children presents up-to-date critical scholarship in literacy, visual and textual studies, then describes in detail the creative and practical approaches entailed and the appropriate formats and materials to use in making a picture book and getting it published.

A practical guide for young musicians

• Susan Hallam
• Helena Gaunt

This book aims to provide a practical guide for young people around the world who are music students in a variety of educational contexts, and who wish to pursue a career in music.

Achievements, analysis and aspirations

• Susan Hallam
• Andrea Creech

This book provides a timely and unique overview of music education in the UK by considering its achievements, analysing its current performance and setting out aspirations for the future.

Exploring the musicality of children and young people with retinopathy of prematurity

• Adam Ockelford
• Christina Matawa

This book is the second in a series that examines the impact of different forms of visual impairment on the developing musicality of blind and partially-sighted children and young people. This volume focuses on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Exploring the musical interests and abilities of blind and partially-sighted children and young people with septo-optic dysplasia

• Adam Ockelford
• Linda Pring
• Graham Welch
• Darold Treffert

Focus on Music is the first survey of its kind to explore the musicality of blind and partially-sighted children in the UK and USA.

• Susan Hallam

This book will be of particular interest to those training to be instrumental and class teachers, and teachers wishing to further their understanding of teaching and learning. It addresses the psychological underpinnings of all elements of music education and provides a short introduction to the field of music psychology.

• Dennis Atkinson
• Paul Dash

This exciting book shows how children and students can use art to explore personal, social and cultural issues that touch their lives. It covers new ground, responding to increasing diversity and to recent government initiatives worldwide to support active citizenship.

• Martin Fautley
• Steven Hutchinson

These two papers examine composing in secondary schools. They look at the way in which the finished product emerges and the crucial personal consequences of good composing.