Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Description
Whilst many COVID-19 impacts have resulted in observable restrictions to societal interacts, other consequences of the pandemic have been more concealed. COVID-19 has caused disruptions to arts practices and this has extended into school experiences for teachers and young people. This paper presentation will explore the impact of COVID-19 on music education in schools, as experienced through teacher perceptions of working in restricted classroom environments. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with 12 secondary school Music teachers and took place between April and June 2021. The interviews were analysed using a modified grounded theory approach, to enable themes to emerge using processes of open coding. The presentation will propose a model of emerging pandemic pedagogies and explore the implications that these modified approaches have for music teaching in schools in the future.