Articles written by Stephen Crabbe

School music education works best when the whole school culture is musical. How can primary schools in particular grow a musical culture across all classrooms and staff?

May 10, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

Australian government must give primary schools what they need to bring music education to every child. But what must then happen in each school and each classroom?

May 6, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

A dire shortage of teachers with appropriate skills and confidence challenges the campaign for music education in all Australian schools. The solution is multi-pronged.

May 6, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

Music teachers in schools lack the essential structure for providing all children with an effective music education. The Australian Government must see they get it.

May 6, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

With all governments in Australia collaborating to establish a national curriculum for schools, the main debate centres on what it should contain.

Apr 16, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

The new Rudd government of Australia is taking definite steps towards a national curriculum for schools. While welcomed by many the project still has its critics.

Apr 16, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

Vocal training is often more effective if it uses the whole body expressively. Try these singing techniques that use dramatic posture, movement and gesture.

Apr 3, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

Singing techniques mainly use apparatus that you can't see or touch because it's inside the body. A problem? Bypass it through tricks of imagination like these!

Mar 10, 2008 - Stephen Crabbe

The Australian Government's review of music education in schools had an unprecedented response from the public. Benefit to the children is now in the government's hands.

Oct 2, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

Australian governments demand a national curriculum and schools complain that they don't have the time to meet all demands. So what should be the school curriculum?

Sep 30, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

A number of forces are driving Australian education towards radical change. Some of these seem incompatible. Which will prevail?

Sep 29, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

At the 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit John Howard and his opponent Kevin Rudd acted out contrasting paths for Australian foreign policy in the region.

Sep 22, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

Music educators need to be aware that, while music can often bridge all boundaries between people, it can actually trigger divisions if used naively in some contexts.

Jul 20, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

Singing is essential to music education but it need not use language. Wordless vocal music and wordless instruction may produce the music teaching methods of the future.

Jun 28, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

With quality teachers and more weight in every school curriculum, music education could be a great tool for community building. It could even facilitate global peace.

Jun 24, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

Australian education authorities need to make school leadership a more attractive job and to develop great leaders. The issue is a current focus of Australian politics.

May 19, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

To be fully accepted in the Asia-Pacific region Australia needs a new foreign policy and a cultural change in the community. This will require a change in government.

Apr 18, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

The concepts of "quality teaching" and "quality teacher" are a hot debating topic in Australia. Now researchers are producing a clearer definition of the terms.

Apr 13, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

The Australian Federal Government plans to base all teacher salaries on performance, but is there evidence this is better for students?

Apr 10, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

The inborn ability to sing evolved in our ancestors well before speech. Language develops from singing capacity. Singing improves relationships, communities and health.

Mar 31, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe

Australia's international relations, its economy and the cognitive development of its people could all improve immensely were its rich linguistic potential tapped.

Mar 29, 2007 - Stephen Crabbe