Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake of postmodern critiques.

IntroductionPart 1 – Theoretical MattersChapter 1 - Knowledge and its discontentsChapter 2 - A theory of knowledge for educationChapter 3 - A discipline in search of an epistemeChapter 4 - The discipline recontextualised – The Middle Ages to the early twentieth centuryChapter 5 - The discipline recontextualized – Into the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesChapter 6 - A subject in search of an epistemePart 2 – Into the ClassroomChapter 7 - Recontextualising the horizontal part one: A justification and an example of concepts at work in the classroomChapter 8 - Recontextualising the horizontal part two: ‘Thingification’ as the portal to the esotericChapter 9 - Making the tacit visible and audibleChapter 10 - Curriculum coherence: Connecting knowledge-that with know-how-to for deep learningChapter 11 - From design to delivery: A mixed modalities approach to pedagogyChapter 12 - From design to delivery: Into the classroomChapter 13 - Concepts in ensemble contextsPart 3 – Looking to the FutureChapter 14 - Crossing the stylistic divideChapter 15 - Music education for the future