Editorial – What do we know in music education?

Abstract

Knowledge in music education is a highly complex and problematic area in music education. In this editorial, we are focussing on some aspects of this issue, particularly as viewed through the very particular lens of coverage over the years in the pages of this journal.Back in 1982, a former editor of the British Journal of Music Education was grappling with this matter and produced a short list of knowledge types for music education that still seem to work well today: