A number of days ago I had the privilege of attending a workshop presented by KMEIA and the wonderful Robyn Stavely - a researcher and lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. The workshop was looking at the connections between neuropedagogical research and the Kodaly philosophy of music education. The core idea was that we receive information about the world around us through our whole body - all of our senses teach us everything we know about the world and we simpl

As the school year rapidly draws to a close, it can be tempting to forget about students and worksheets and assessments and administrators and school and simply EVERYTHING to do with teaching for a while. It's tempting to hurtle headlong into the holidays - be it Christmas or that long-awaited getaway to some tropical paradise. However, in order to fully lay each school year to rest, it's important to look back on the year that was and do some detailed reflection in order to

Something occured to me the other day as a result of a conversation about Kodály. I was talking to a friend of a friend who teaches piano as a side business (and is therefore an expert in music education) who claimed to know all about Kodály and proclaimed it useless, stating "what's the point of singing do, re, mi when you can just say the letter names?" and while there is so much wrong with that sentence that I had to go away and take a few deep breaths, it got me to thinki