Abstract :
On 1st November 2008, more than 50 people gathered in the Faculty of Education, University
of Cambridge to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the BJME. The attendees represented
the whole spectrum of the music education community including teachers, researchers,
students and teacher-educators as well as BJME past editors.We were delighted to welcome
colleagues not only from the UK but also from Ireland, Norway, Italy and the USA.
The purpose of the symposium was one of both celebration and enquiry. The focus
of ‘Teacher Research’ was chosen because it seemed to us that it resonated well with
one of the original aims of the journal which was ‘to help us towards a better-informed
and possibly more cohesive profession’ (Paynter & Swanwick, 1984: 5), and the journal’s
original publicity strap, ‘written by professionals for professionals’.
