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Covid’s long tail in music education

How is the Covid-19 pandemic still impacting school music today? Dr Anthony Anderson, associate professor in music education at Birmingham City University, reflects on research exploring the lasting consequences for music teachers
Pupils studying music during the Covid-19 pandemic
Pupils studying music during the Covid-19 pandemic - Courtesy Anthony Anderson

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic was a difficult and challenging time, which impacted all our lives. As we continue to reflect and take stock of our lived experiences during this period, many memories surface. Some of these, perhaps, reflect ways we found to cope, and others, perhaps more traumatic, include moments we would rather not recall. Understandably, for many of us, our emphases may have been on doing all we could to support friends and family, digesting the latest news, and understanding the guidelines we were asked to follow. But as distance increasingly builds between these moments and our current life experiences, opportunities for thinking about what the pandemic meant for aspects of our professional identities are also surfacing.

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