Lucy Green

Lucy Green' (born 1957)[1] is a Professor of Music Education at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. She had a key role in bringing the informal learning practices of popular, and other vernacular musicians to the attention of music-educators, thus transforming classroom practice (Cain 2013, Jaffurs 2004, ACT 2009, BJME 2010, VRME 2008).

Biography

Green studied music and education at Homerton College, University of Cambridge; then a Masters in Music and a Doctorate in Music Education at Sussex University. She taught the piano during her post-graduate studies and then became a school music teacher and Head of Music in secondary education. She joined the Institute of Education (now part of University College London) in 1990, where she taught on initial teacher education courses, masters and doctoral degrees. She has been Professor of Music Education there since 2004.

Professional work

Green led the Informal Learning Pathfinder of the UK project, Musical Futures which took central characteristics of informal music learning methods and adapted them to classroom environments. This change in teaching’ approaches resulted in a rise in student motivation (Hallam et al. 2008, Jeanneret et al. 2011, Wright 2011). Subsequently, she developed similar pedagogies for the specialist instrumental lesson.[2]

Her work is used in schools and teacher-training programmes in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Brazil and other countries. (See: for the UK, Andrews 2013, Gower 2012, Hallam et al. 2008, Price 2005; for the USA, Abrahams et al. 2012, Jaffurs, 2004, Paparo 2013; for Canada, Wright 2011, 2012; for Australia, Jeanneret et al. 2011; and for elsewhere e.g. McPhail 2012.) Her work has also been influential in other areas of the sociology of music education, particularly concerning gender (Legg 2010, Bjorck 2011), musical meaning and ideology, and popular music pedagogy. Her publications have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Dutch.

Bibliography

2001, published in Spanish as Musica, Género y Educación, Ediciones Morata, ISBN 84-7112-454-8
published in a revised second edition: Bury St. Edmunds: Abramis Publishing

References

Journal special issues on Green's work
Other citations
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