SA Primary Teacher’s Survey: Music learning helps SA students thrive, but not every classroom has equal access
"Our children are not singing enough at school. The once weekly ritual in our primary schools is now completely non-existent in many cases," writes Jessica Adamson in her Opinion column in the Adelaide Advertiser, spotlighting results from our new research into the state of music education in SA's primary schools, in collaboration with South Australia's Department for Education.
Our broad-ranging survey of government primary school teachers shows they universally back the student benefits of music learning – but many agree teacher training, appropriate resources and dedicated facilities are lacking.
Read our summary report, Setting the tempo, featuring our observations and implications of this research, which was supported by the South Australian Department for Education and the Day Family Foundation, and designed and conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research.
