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Editorial
elcome to 2019! As we start the The experiences we give our students
new year, the STAR Post editorial will develop in them, not only skills and
team has put together the main techniques, but more importantly readiness
highlights from last November’s Arts Education for life and work in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain,
Conference (AEC) in a special issue, offering a Complex, Ambiguous) world.
myriad of provocative ideas and perspectives
to kick-start your year in school. EVERYONE CAN SING AND MAKE MUSIC
With the outside-in perspectives gained from Everyone can sing and make music. It is
the sharing by overseas and local pedagogues critical for us to embrace the musical voice
as well as our teacher-presenters, the of each of our students so that they will have
conference challenged us to rethink our roles the opportunities to express and experience
as music teachers and widen our perspectives music at a deep and personal level. As music
on how music should be taught and learnt. In teachers, we should have the courage to try
this issue, we recall the powerful messages the new and the unfamiliar as music teaches
generated by the conference, including the us to embrace the ambiguous and complex.
following: In so doing, we build confidence in our
educational connoisseurship and become role
MUSIC HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE
models for our students to thrive in an age of
uncertainty.
Music has the power to change and transform
our students in both attitude and values. It We hope you will enjoy reading this issue. Let
facilitates experiences that help ground our it seed your imagination even as we continue
students in values and develop competencies the post-AEC conversations on how we can
that will help them navigate through the expand our repertoire and make music lessons
complexities and uncertainties of life. meaningful and inspiring for our students.
James Lee
Deputy Director (Music)
Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the aRts