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Joanne Wong; Alfredo Bautista; Yan Lam Ho; Siu Hang Kong – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate Hong Kong preschool teachers' music-specific professional development (PD) preferences and analyze the potential differences among teachers with varying levels of teaching experience (beginning, experienced, and advanced). A survey was developed to assess four music-specific PD preferences: content,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Preferences
Lisa D. Martin – Music Educators Journal, 2023
It was not long into the author's career as a music educator that they noticed a considerable drop in their own recreational music listening. Any wisp of recreational music listening was typically an accompaniment to an activity or task rather than the main event. This changed dramatically around seven years ago, when a few of their colleagues…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Teaching Experience, Music Education, Music Appreciation
Ne Myo Aung; Patricia Shehan Campbell – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
The Burmese arched harp, known as "Saung Gauk," is the national icon of the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (once called Burma). It is both ancient and contemporary, and its music frequently carries stories that are threaded with long-standing philosophical principles of the Burmese. The music of the Saung Gauk consists of five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Music, Music Education
Stewart Rose, Leslie; Countryman, June – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
Wondering if there is more to learn from youth's descriptions of the importance of music in their lives, the authors interviewed 35 youth (aged 12-22 years) using a constructivist grounded theory approach. The data analysis process led to the realization that youth were often describing episodes of play. The researchers synthesized essential…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Music Appreciation, Youth
Sarah H. Watts – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the experiences of one music teacher (the researcher) and two intact classrooms of 3- to 6-year-old children who engaged in world music lessons as a pathway to developing empathy. Participants in each of the two classes engaged in a 30-minute world music lesson once per week for 8 weeks,…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Mary Stakelum – Music Education Research, 2024
In a report commissioned by the Society for Music Analysis to address a gap in music literacy, McQueen (2020) identified instrumental teachers as an important part of music education both within schools and in the community. This article takes as a starting point McQueen's (2020) proposal that 'it is through instrumental tuition that music…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Literacy, Music
HongMei Zhang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Using multimedia elements to present poetry can help make it more accessible and understandable to a broader audience. In the context of China, where poetry is important in culture and art, interpreting the poems of Chinese poets in contemporary music can help popularize their work among young audiences. The study aimed to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Music, Multimedia Instruction
Buren, Verena; Müllensiefen, Daniel; Roeske, Tina; Degé, Franziska – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Tests of musical ability in children have relied on diverse conceptions of what musical abilities are. Recent investigations suggest that such conceptions can be seen as socially constructed and differ between cultures, sub-groups, and individuals. Based on a previous study on conceptions of adult musical ability, we designed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Music, Ability, Young Children, Adults
Saccardi, David; Scott, Laurie; McKeeman, Jennifer; Lader, Justin – Texas Music Education Research, 2021
Parents and guardians inherently become involved in diverse aspects of the music learning process and retain the potential to foster a musical home environment, influencing the musical growth, attitude, and level of participation of their children. Research suggests a relationship between parental support and successful development of music skills…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Student Attitudes
Matias Recharte – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2019
Music, considered as a field of discourse, has important implications for how educators think and act within their classrooms. Based on the work of Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez, Murray R. Schafer, and feminist music education scholars, this paper aims to delineate these implications and to propose "sound education" as an alternative.…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Acoustics, Music Teachers
Edmond Gubbins – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
"Musical Futures" is an approach to music education grounded in the principles of informal learning. Research has shown that "Musical Futures" has profoundly impacted teaching and learning in music, pupil engagement and educational strategies for music (Green, Lucy. 2002. "How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music…
Descriptors: Music, Learner Engagement, Music Education, Elementary School Teachers
Campo, Sandra Soler – International Education Studies, 2020
Currently there is a great variety of musical styles that coexist in our society. We can access music in very different ways and with immediacy never before imagined. For teenagers, music is a key element in defining their identity, socializing and taking refuge in their inner world. This communication focuses on the analysis of songs from the…
Descriptors: Music, Coeducation, Music Appreciation, Secondary School Students
Pérez-Moreno, Jessica; Carrillo, Carmen – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
This study examines the impact made by music education on a sample of Catalan citizens who studied this subject during their compulsory schooling. A biographical narrative methodology was used to investigate a broad spectrum of the participants' school musical experiences and to analyze the impact that music education has had on different aspects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Outcomes of Education, Biographies
Yuksel, Gozde – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
How teachers perceive concepts and facts is very important because teaching is a profession capable of shaping the cognitive, affective and behavioural behaviours of society through education. This research aims to determine the perceptions of prospective teachers studying at teacher education programmes of different fields regarding the concept…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Music
Kang, Youngju; Ritzhaupt, Albert – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate student motivation and achievement in music appreciation by comparing web-based and game-based online music learning environments. Undergraduate students (N = 132) from a public research university in the southeastern United States participated in the study. Based on the pretest-posttest control-group…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Music Appreciation, Student Motivation