Ways of thinking about music : political dimensions and educational consequences / Gary Spruce -- Finding the future in the past : historical perspectives on music education / Stephanie E. Pitts -- Research in the sociology of music education : some introductory concepts / Lucy Green -- Music education : a European perspective / Janet Hoskyns -- Music psychology and the secondary music teacher / Alexandra Lamont -- Musical development in the primary years / Janet Mills -- Planning for transfer and transition in music education / Helen Coll -- Music with emotionally disturbed children / Yvonne Packer -- Assessment in the arts : issues of objectivity / Gary Spruce -- In search of a child's musical imagination / Robert Walker -- ICT and the music curriculum / Paul Wright -- The place of composing in the music curriculum / Ted Bunting -- Relevance and transformation : roles for world musics / Malcolm Floyd -- Instrumental teaching as music teaching / Keith Swanwick -- The art of improvisation and the aesthetics of imperfection / Andy Hamilton.