A Reflective Lens: Music Pedagogical Research to Transform Practice | Page 6

Foreword
This edition of music research by teachers bring to light
different refracted lenses of inquiry into music education
practices in our classrooms. We often teach in ways we feel
most comfortable, habitually and iteratively. We want to
challenge our own thinking and find new wonderful ways
of re-shaping and re-designing our classroom practice. We
can only move into these adaptive ways of learning when
we re-discover our own practice again.
These teacher-writers encourage us to actively engage
in a continuous process of exploration and reflection to
better inform and enhance our music teaching-learning
cycles. They share here their collective experience and
transformation of practice for purposeful teaching and
learning with the arts fraternity. The dialogic spaces
support reflective inquiry that strengthens not only the
professional music teaching practice, but also deepens
shared knowledge in the co-construction of knowledge
on arts education pedagogy in Singapore classrooms.
Exciting times.

Rebecca Chew
Academy Principal
Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the aRts

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