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Digital game–based learning in music education: A systematic review between 2011 and 2023 Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Katy Ieong Cheng Ho Weatherly, Bri’Ann Wright, Elsa Y. Lee
Digital game–based learning is increasingly integrated into classrooms, offering a novel approach to combining informal and formal music education. This article reports the findings of a systematic review investigating digital game–based learning in music education, analysing 15 empirical, peer-reviewed articles written from 2011 to 2023. In this analysis, we first analyzed the platforms of digital
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The meanings of professional development: Perspectives of Malaysian piano teachers Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Kathryn Ang, Ryan Lewis, Albi Odendaal
In Malaysia, the work of music studio teachers outside of schools and in private settings is unregulated and teachers have limited access to professional development opportunities. Globally, research on the professional development of music teachers has mostly focused on classroom music teachers, where professional development is often mandated and official support provided. However, little is known
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Investigating if and how string teachers instruct and support the self-regulation of students’ practice in online lessons Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Dora Utermohl de Queiroz, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez, Clarissa Foletto
Existing literature indicates that music teachers and educators working online need to encourage students to adopt self-regulating behaviors to succeed in their learning and performance. This study examines if and how string teachers promote selected self-regulated learning (SRL) processes in online lessons; specifically, how they teach and support motivation, self-efficacy, and task strategies for
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Community musicking and musical cognition among adungu music communities of the Acholi people from Awach, Gulu district, Northern Uganda Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 James Isabirye
This ethnographic inquiry investigated the nature of musical cognition that engagements in the Ugandan Acholi people’s adungu music culture engender, what can be understood about musical cognition in nonwesternized oral community music-making experiences, and how this might inform school music education theory and practice. Schooling in Uganda mostly upholds colonial epistemes that separate cognitive
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The storyline approach as a didactic tool to promote efficacy beliefs of (student) teachers in creative music activities with young children Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Carolien Hermans
The problem addressed by this research is the low levels of efficacy beliefs that beginning teachers and student teachers in early childhood education experience in facilitating creative music activities with young children aged 4–6 years old. This can lead to missed opportunities for children to develop their creativity and self-expression in an embodied, musical way. One solution to this issue is
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Editorial Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Julie Ballantyne, Alexis Anja Kallio
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Contemporary composers’ changing “practice in context”: What can higher music education learn from Theodore Schatzki’s practice theory? Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Heidi Westerlund, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
While musical practice is more often than not considered through musical repertoires, genres, and traditions, in higher music education, musical practices are further narrowed down to music profession-specific, craft-based competences and learning outcomes. This narrow understanding encompasses the intertwined social and material dimensions that—according to practice theories—constitute and determine
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Music cooperating teachers’ perceptions of the university-cooperating teacher partnership Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Molly K Baugh, Colleen M Conway
The purpose of this study was to examine three music cooperating teachers’ perceptions of the university-cooperating teacher partnership. Using a phenomenological interview design, data included two focus group interviews (framing the student teaching semester) and an individual interview in the middle of the term. Participants were experienced cooperating teachers who were working with a student teacher
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Building social connection and inclusion through rock music in the Western Balkans: Fostering the art of small changes Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Gillian Howell, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Jane Davidson
This article explores community-based rock music education as a site for strengthening social cohesion in a context of postwar, interethnic divisions. Focusing on small and incremental changes, it examines the practices of Music Connects, a project in the Western Balkans, and its goals of revitalizing rock culture in support of a more inclusive social life and greater freedom of movement in the region
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A scoping review of occupational health education programs for music students and teachers Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Alison Evans, Bridget Rennie-Salonen, Suzanne Wijsman, Bronwen Ackermann
Embedding musicians’ occupational health training in music education curricula is widely recommended due to the well-documented high prevalence of performance-related health problems (PRHPs) among musicians across their lifespan. A scoping review was conducted to examine the range of evidence from implementations of musicians’ health education programs, regarding the maintenance of hearing, musculoskeletal
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Breaking the sound of silence: Professional learning in an early career music teacher conversation group Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Alden H. Snell, Suzanne L. Burton
Professional development, typically initiated by administrators to improve student achievement outcomes, is often irrelevant to the needs of early career music teachers. As music teacher educators, we were concerned about issues of importance to early career music teachers as they entered the music teaching profession. We explored conversation as a conduit of reflection and professional learning by
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Musical identity, pedagogy, and creative dispositions: Exploring the experiences of popular musicians during their postgraduate teacher education in a changing Welsh education landscape Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Vivienne John, Gary Beauchamp, Dan Davies, Thomas Breeze
Much has been written on the different learning paths of classical and popular musicians and the view that popular musicians can be marginalized within the musical hegemony. Adopting Lucas, Claxton, and Spencer’s creative dispositions model, this article explores the extent to which this might occur when popular musicians learn to become secondary classroom music teachers. Data were collected through
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Effects of altered sensory feedback on piano performance errors: An exploratory study Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Marília Nunes-Silva, Gleidiane Salomé, Fernando Lopes Gonçalves, Thenille Braun Janzen, Benjamin Rich Zendel
Music performance is an intensive sensorimotor task that involves the generation of mental representations of musical information that are actively accessed, maintained, and manipulated according to the demands of the performance. Internal representations and external information interact through feedback and feedforward processes that adjust the musician’s motor behavior to optimize a musical performance
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Understanding learners’ relationships with music Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Juha Ojala, Ulla Pohjannoro
Relationships with music are at the core of music education. However, they are rarely studied from learners viewpoints—especially those of exceptionally motivated, advanced students—as they are incorporated into the theoretical underpinning or methodological stance of research in instrumental education. In this research project we follow the musical lives of ten advanced, mastery-oriented adolescent
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Expanding professionalism in popular music voice teaching: A framework synthesis Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Katri A. Keskinen, Marja-Leena Juntunen, Monika Nerland
This framework synthesis investigates how notions related to expanding professionalism have manifested in recently published literature on popular music voice teaching. The reviewed literature was selected from a systematic mapping review conducted previously by the first two authors. The scope for the publication years was 2014 to 2020, and the included literature incorporated 64 titles of peer-reviewed
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“I can feel the rhythm, and it is somehow nice”: Deafness challenging the hierarchy of senses in music education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Katja Sutela, Outi Ahonen
In this article, we explore how deafness challenges the hierarchy of senses in music education. As part of a larger three-year research project focusing on memories of Finnish state schools for the d/Deaf, “Voices of a Silent People—Renovated Bodies,” this article concentrates on experiences of music education. The methodological starting point of the research project is sign history, with a focus
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Who has access to a career in Western classical music? Building a tool to evaluate intersectionality in barriers to music education and careers Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Sandra Trienekens, Juan Carlos Escobar Campos, Lili Schutte, Melissa Bremmer
This article reflects on the “Hiddenness Index” we developed, implemented, and evaluated for Concertgebouworkest Young (Young), the youth orchestra of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Concertgebouworkest) for musicians with “hidden talents.” “Hiddenness” alludes to various barriers that young musicians aspiring to a career in Western classical music may face, due to their social identity and
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Exploring Spanish studio music teachers’ views on topics related to creativity Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Daniel Mateos-Moreno, Jorge Garcia-Perals
While creativity is a primary focus in music education, its exploration within the realm of music studio teaching is considerably less extensive compared with other educational contexts. Moreover, the related research is predominantly focused on creativity in developing music skills. In the present study, we explore how Spanish instrumental music teachers ( n = 10) perceive creativity and its development
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Characterizing musical vulnerability: Toward a typology of receptivity and susceptibility in the secondary music classroom Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Elizabeth H MacGregor
Although teachers and researchers frequently acknowledge that music education can benefit pupils’ academic achievement, health and well-being, and social development, classroom music-making can hav...
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Five parameters for studying leadership styles in orchestra conductors Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Lucia Lanaro, Andrea Bobbio, Michele Biasutti, Evangelos Himonides
This study aims to investigate leadership in orchestra conducting and interrogate educational principles to improve conducting pedagogy. Effective leadership implies a set of interpersonal, communi...
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Eighth- and ninth-grade students’ perceptions of a curriculum designed to support adolescent female vocal development: An action research study Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Emily M Mercado, D. Michael Draut
The purpose of this collaborative action research project was to examine eighth- and ninth-grade female (assigned at birth) students’ perspectives of their singing voice when implementing a practit...
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Shapes of water—A multidisciplinary composing project visioning an eco-socially oriented approach to music education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Katja Sutela
This article presents a project, Shapes of Water, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, which gave music education students the opportunity to compose children’s songs about climate change wit...
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Soundtrap usage during COVID-19: A machine-learning approach to assess the effects of the pandemic on online music learning Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 David H Knapp, Bryan Powell, Gareth D Smith, John C Coggiola, Matthew Kelsey
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a sudden rethinking of how music was taught and learned. Prior to the pandemic, the web-based digital audio workstation Soundtrap emerged as a leading platform for cr...
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The residue of composition and improvisation activities in a woodwind lab course Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Alisa Mastin Hanson
The purpose of this research was to learn about the short-term residue of composing and improvising activities experienced in a woodwind lab course. Five undergraduates enrolled in a Music Learning...
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Living with liminality: Reconceptualising music careers education and research Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Nicole Canham
One of the many lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the nature of it: it has been, and still is, an evolving situation in which there are many questions, but not always immediate or easy answ...
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Listening with ‘Big Ears’: Accountability in cross-cultural music education research with Indigenous partners Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Anita Prest
In this theoretical article, I examine various conceptions of focused listening—including those held by specific First Nations communities—to determine how each conception might offer insights for ...
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Novel opportunities for intercultural music education: Integrating singing and a language-aware approach in Learn-Finnish-by-Singing choirs Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Johanna Lehtinen-Schnabel
The topic of language awareness in intercultural music education has received surprisingly little attention in discussions on meaningful and responsive musical practices, despite language being an ...
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Beliefs of general classroom and music specialist teachers in Hungarian primary schools regarding the development of musical abilities in children Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Andrea Asztalos
One of the most important issues in music education is the development of children’s musical abilities, which are in turn impacted by teachers’ beliefs. The purpose of this study was to investigate...
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An opportunity to develop respect and responsibility through a socio-musical program in a primary school: A case study Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Emilia Campayo-Muñoz, Laura Cuervo-Calvo, Alberto Cabedo-Mas
Group music making has the potential to develop socio-emotional competences. This study describes how responsibility and respect—both of which are socio-emotional competences—were developed through...
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Professional education toward protean careers in music? Bigenerational Finnish composers’ pathways and livelihoods in changing ecosystems Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Heidi Westerlund, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
Contemporary professional landscapes in classical music fields are rapidly changing and younger generations of musicians are confronting their creative careers, more often than not in connection to...
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Self-regulation strategies and behaviors in the initial learning of the viola and violin with the support of software for real-time instrumental intonation assessment Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Fernando López-Calatayud, Jesús Tejada
Self-regulation strategies and behaviors are important aspects of instrumental music learning because they allow students to set learning goals by testing and controlling their cognition, motivatio...
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Sources of self-efficacy in class and studio music lessons Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Anneliese Gill, Margaret Osborne, Gary McPherson
Self-efficacy is a key factor in performance success, yet little is known about how music educators nurture students’ self-belief within studio and class music lessons. This study explored teachers...
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Reinventing folk instruments as educational tools: The case of the Shakuhachi Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Koji Matsunobu
Reflecting their dominance within music education, most musical instruments used in schools are of Western origin. In stark contrast, the adoption of folk instruments for the purposes of facilitati...
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Pedagogical practices, curriculum development, and student experiences within postsecondary music education: A systematic literature review Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Paul J Massy, Sabrina F Sembiante
This systematic literature review seeks to examine the pedagogical practices, professional relationships, and curricular development that impact teachers’ and students’ experiences in the postsecon...
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The essence of arrogance: A phenomenology of musical egotism Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 William J Coppola
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate how egotism was experienced in the lives of 15 musicians and music professionals. Participants representing a broad range of musical ba...
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Soundtrapped? Socio-material perspectives on collaborative teaching within the music classroom Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Kari Holdhus, Catharina Christophersen, Heidi Partti
This article draws on a classroom project to explore the complexities of collaborative teaching within the music classroom, where a professional team collaborated to facilitate digital music-making...
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Composing for students: Composers’ reflections on the process of creating educational music Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Susan Mielke, Bernard W. Andrews
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the process of composing educational music. As part of a research project titled Sound Connections: Composing Educational Music Canadian com...
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Choral Flourishing: Parent and child perspectives on the benefits of participation in an excellent youth choir Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Margaret S Barrett, Katie Zhukov
Over the last decade research has reported a range of positive life and learning outcomes for adult and child choristers through first-person accounts derived through surveys and interviews. Little...
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Children’s identity work in daily singing-based music classes: A case study of an Australian boys’ school Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Jason Goopy
Music can be a powerful activity and resource in a child’s ongoing identity construction. Rather than something that people have, musical identities are understood to be something people enact and ...
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Tertiary music students’ perspectives on activist-musicianship: Approaches, challenges, and perceived role of higher music education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Leah Coutts, Julia Hill
While tertiary music programs traditionally focus on developing musicians’ craft, there is an increasing emphasis on the need to develop students’ ability to use their craft in socially engaged way...
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Reflective writing in a community music project with students in higher music education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Silke Kruse-Weber, Andrea Schiavio, Erik M. Kirchgäßner, Elizabeth Bucura
Meet4Music (M4M) is a low-threshold community music program based at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, offering free participatory sessions to people from all social and cu...
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Retuning music teaching: Online music tutorials preferences as predictors of amateur musicians’ music self-efficacy in informal music learning Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Tal Vaizman, Gal Harpaz
Music self-efficacy has been acknowledged as a strong predictor of successful performance among musicians and music students, but is less researched among amateur musicians. The purpose of this stu...
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“Music is my life”: Examining the connections between music students’ workload experiences in higher education and meaningful engagement in music Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Tuula Jääskeläinen
Enhancing our knowledge about students’ experiences during their studies in higher music education is essential to understand and support them as they cope with their specific workloads in studying music. This study provides a research-based understanding of what engaging in music means to music students when they reflected on their experiences of their studies and workloads. The data were collected
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Exploring perceptions and experiences of female secondary school singers in Aotearoa New Zealand Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Calvin P Baker, Te Oti Rakena, Suzanne C Purdy
Female adolescent voice change (FAVC) is characterized by objectively measurable developments in both physiological and acoustical aspects of voice. Despite these observable changes, this period of...
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Examining student depictions of actual and ideal learning experiences in elementary general music Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Josef Hanson
The purpose of this study was to explore and synthesize the perspectives of primary-level students regarding their experiences in general music by analyzing their drawings. A research protocol was developed using an adaptation of the Kinetic School Drawing approach established by Prout and Phillips. A total of 180 primary students from four school contexts participated by creating pictorial depictions
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Selecting repertoire for music teaching: Findings from Norwegian schools of music and arts Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Siw Graabræk Nielsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Sidsel Karlsen
In 1997, Norway became the first country to make statutory provision for schools of music and arts requiring every municipality to run such a school. Based on an explicit vision of “schools of music and arts for everyone,” the aim is to provide music education for all children, regardless of social and economic background. Despite their statutory status, there are no official documents regulating the
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The multiplicity of preservice music teachers’ positioning in a participatory action research project Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Silje Valde Onsrud, Bendik Fredriksen, Hanne Rinholm, Monica Lindgren
This article reports the results of a participatory action research study into Norwegian generalist music teacher education, that intended to develop spaces for preservice music teachers to foster agency and prepare for future teaching. We aimed to challenge the discursive practice of generalist music teacher education through participatory action research conducted from January to April 2020 at two
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A cross-sectional study on relationships between musical activities and quality of life in Japanese older adults Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Hiromichi Mito, Hikari Kinjo
This study aimed to examine the association between musical activities and quality of life in older adults using a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire consisted of three parts: background variables, quality of life variables (measured from two aspects: appreciation of life and life-ability of the person), and musical activity variables (frequency of engagement in musical activities, perceived importance
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ICT and music technology during COVID-19: Australian music educator perspectives Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Bradley Merrick, Dawn Joseph
The COVID-19 pandemic forced music teachers to modify their practice as delivery moved online in education settings around the globe. This article forms part of our wider study, Re-imaging the future: Music teaching and learning, and ICT in blended environments in Australia, that commenced in March 2021. In this article, the authors analyze and discuss Australian music teachers’ perceptions of confidence
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“A meeting of equals”: Music educators and special education paraprofessionals in a community of practice Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Rachel Grimsby
The purpose of this instrumental case study was to observe music educators and special education paraprofessionals (SEPs) in a learning community that examined their perceptions and necessary practices needed to teach music to students with disabilities. The primary question of this study was: How may a community of practice (CoP) offer collaboration and instructional support for music educators and
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Editorial Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Julie Ballantyne
Research trends in music education become apparent when looking across the articles published in Research Studies in Music Education. Typically, over the past 3 years, we have managed to produce issues where similar topics are grouped together. This has resulted in some very popular issues—most notably Volume 42, Issue 2 (July 2020), and Volume 43, Issue 3 (July 2021). The July 2020 issue, published
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Why do singers use imagery? Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Brianna DeSantis, Sarah Deck, Craig Hall, Sophie Roland
Previous sport research has demonstrated that athletes of higher levels employ imagery more than low-level athletes. Because there is currently little research on imagery’s application in singers, the purpose of the present study was to investigate whether this finding is reflected in low-level and high-level singers. A study-specific questionnaire was developed that examined singers’ imagery use.
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Discussing a methodology for researching the long-term impact of music education: Drawing on learners’ memories and self-accounts Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Koji Matsunobu
In this article, based on a longitudinal study that the author conducted in a primary school in Japan, a methodology for assessing the long-term impact of music education is discussed. With the intention of understanding the meaning of primary music education from the perspectives of the learners, retrospective data were collected from former primary school students who became university students.
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Representation in music: College students’ perceptions of ensemble repertoire Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Jason P Cumberledge, Matthew L Williams
Culturally responsive pedagogy in music education is becoming increasingly crucial for all students, in all types of music programs, and at all levels of education as demographic shifts occur in schools. In music ensembles, the selection of repertoire is a critical component of culturally responsive pedagogy. The purpose of this study was to investigate student perceptions of repertoire in college
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“It just fills you up”: The culture of monthly community singing events in one American city Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Joshua Palkki
This article conveys data collected in an ethnographic case study exploring monthly participatory community singing events in one city in the American Midwest. I analyze these data through the lens of a “traditional” choral conductor who, prior to undertaking this investigation, had little knowledge about participatory singing traditions; I also utilize scholarship about participatory versus presentational
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Preservice music teachers in New South Wales: How prepared do they feel for secondary music teaching in a changing world? Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Jennifer Carter
The ideas and philosophies of preservice secondary music teachers (PSMTs) are formalized in their tertiary education years. In these years, PSMTs must reconcile the expectations, beliefs, and values espoused by their lecturers, tutors, and other significant people from their past. PSMTs have accumulated various musical experiences through prior interactions with their primary and secondary school teachers
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Student teachers’ and teacher educators’ pedagogical reflections on piano courses in Finnish primary school teacher education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Anu Sepp, Heikki Ruismäki, Lenita Hietanen
Reflection is a key component in teachers’ educational programs. As teachers transfer human values through the subject(s) they teach, their pedagogical thinking plays an essential role in decision-making. As part of the Arctic Reformative and Exploratory Teaching Profession (ArkTOP) project (Finland), this case study examines the potential for developing pedagogical thinking in the education of primary
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“Failing in spite of wonderfulness”: High-stakes ensemble adjudication in low-income schools Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Kelsey Nussbaum
The culture of competition in music education is pervasive, reflecting the overall growth in standardization and accountability measures in education. With this study, I addressed the intersection of two underexamined topics in music education: teachers’ experience with competitive ensemble events and the structural challenges of working in a low-income, student of color (SOC) majority campus. In this
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We are also music lovers: Testing vocal tastes in higher musical theater education Research Studies in Music Education (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Guro von Germeten
This article explores taste processes within a group of musical theater students and their voice teacher, the latter also acting as researcher, while working with an aesthetically broad repertoire in a higher education setting in Norway. The study is designed using an action research approach, and the collected data—students’ reflection notes, the researcher’s field notes, and workshop recordings—are