Dr Thomas Breeze

Overview

Following a BMus and MA at Cardiff University, studying with the world-renowned Bach scholar Professor Peter Williams, Tom completed his PGCE at Cardiff Met and then spent 10 years in the classroom teaching secondary music. He has also taught on the music programmes at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Cardiff University, as well as working for the education programmes at the Open University.

Tom joined Cardiff Met part time in 2012 and full time in 2015, and now leads the PGCE Secondary Music programme. In 2023, he was awarded his doctorate for a thesis entitled A study of Key Stage 3 music teachers’ pedagogic beliefs in the context of a new curriculum for Wales. His other responsibilities in Initial Teacher Education include membership of the clinical practice requirements team, who are responsible for translating the Cardiff Partnership’s adopted model of research-informed clinical practice into a framework for student teachers’ school placements.

In 2018, Tom collaborated with Emma O’Dubhchair to create a podcast, Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, which has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times worldwide and has interviewed academics, policymakers, teachers and student teachers.

Tom is currently involved in a three-year project with Canterbury Christ Church University, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, investigating how to create deeper, more meaningful dialogues between different subject specialists in secondary schools.

 

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