This article, written at the time it was taking place, discusses the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on music education in schools, focusing on the UK. It discusses how schools and teachers have had to make a sudden shift to a largely on-line modality, and the effects of these on teaching and learning in music. It asks questions of curriculum and assessment, especially with regard to the fact that classroom teachers in England are having to use their professional judgment to provide grades for external examinations, where hitherto these would have come from examination boards. It questions the ways in which teachers have been inadequately prepared and supported for this, by years of neoliberal undermining of confidence. It goes on to question accountability, and teacher training, raising issues which, at the time of writing, are of significant concern or music education.

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社论研究：大流行时期的音乐教育

这篇文章是在它发生的时候写的，讨论了 COVID-19 大流行对学校音乐教育的影响，重点是英国。它讨论了学校和教师如何不得不突然转变为主要在线模式，以及这些对音乐教学的影响。它提出了课程和评估问题，特别是关于英格兰的任课教师必须利用他们的专业判断来为外部考试提供成绩这一事实，而迄今为止这些成绩都来自考试委员会。由于多年来新自由主义对信心的破坏，它质疑教师为此做好充分准备和支持的方式。它继续质疑问责制和教师培训，提出了在撰写本文时提出的问题，