Textbooks for music education: secondary school teachers' perspectives

This study main purpose is to know the music secondary teacher's perception about using or not a textbook. With this goal a methodology of study cases is used, the sample is taken from five music teachers of different schools from Murcia. To recover database, a four-part interview was designed, providing some information about personal subjects, didactics organization, teaching practice, thinking and context. After analysing the database recollected, the evidence is searching orientation and didactic resources is the primary reason for textbook teacher's user. On the other hand, non-user textbook teachers consider flexibility and freedom of planning as an advantage. All participant teachers take into account that publishing houses are more concerned about billing criteria than pedagogical aspects. Therefore, textbook's future is uncertain, teachers even forecast its extinction.