About Me
Dr Graham McPhail is a senior lecturer in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He took up this position in 2015 after twenty years of work in the secondary education sector including three years as the National Moderator for NCEA Music.
His current research is centred on the role of knowledge in the curriculum, in particular within C21schooling and music education contexts. He is the lead editor for New Zealand’s first volume on secondary school music education Educational Change and the Secondary School Music Curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand published by Routledge in 2018.
“...deep learning for students is more likely if teachers utilise and make visible the epistemic structure of the area of study; the subject concepts and subject competencies to be taught and their inter-relationships as ‘knowledge-that’ (epistemic knowledge) and ‘knowledge-how-to’ (procedural knowledge)” - Graham McPhail
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Graham currently has 45 book chapters and papers published. He has been published in journals both in New Zealand and internationally including the British Educational Research Journal, the British Journal of Sociology of Education
