Contexts for Music Learning and Participation

Susan Hallam is Professor Emerita at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. Her research interests in music include practising, performing, musical ability, musical understanding and the wider impact of engagement with music. Andrea Creech is Professor of Didactique Instrumentale at the Faculty of Music, Université Laval, Canada, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in music in community. Her current research and teaching focuses on collaborative learning, music for social development, and creative ageing in and through music. Maria Varvarigou is Lecturer in Music at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. Her research interests focus on playing by ear and informal learning, intergenerational music making and choral conducting education.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Shaping musical possible selves in the Early Years.- Chapter 3. Emergent musical possible selves in primary school.- Chapter 4. Secondary schools and their role to play in musical possible selves.- Chapter 5. The role of further and higher education in shaping musical possible selves.- Chapter 6. Musical possible selves in extra-curricular ensembles and instrumental and vocal tuition.- Chapter 7. Lifelong musical possible selves: Adult music learning and participation.- Chapter 8. Supporting musical possible selves in programmes with social aims.- Chapter 9. The emergence of musical possible selves through musical learning in the home.- Chapter 10. Peer learning and the construction of musical possible selves.- Chapter 11. Musical possible selves and self-directed music learning across the lifespan.- Chapter 12. Developing musical possible selves through learning with technology and social media.