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Music and Gender at Key Stage Three (11–14): An Action Research Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Abstract

This article seeks to create further professional debate on the practical, political and historical significance of girls' experience in music education, and to suggest possible ways for change.

A secondary schools research project on Music and Gender is outlined and work in one project school where language (especially the words in songs) was the focus is discussed in detail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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