Exploring the context of Education

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The processes and interactions in a classroom in which a music teacher’s main concerns are to maintain authority and control students. Questions arise as to how teachers will embrace the student-centred and participatory classroom teaching methods central to the Reform of Secondary Education, and the challenges for inservice and preservice teacher education.