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Hodges, Donald A.; Wilkins, Robin W. – Music Educators Journal, 2015
What scientific evidence can music educators share with their community stakeholders concerning how and why music moves us so powerfully? Five key points derived from recent psychological and neuroscientific findings are (1) Network Science is a new technique that allows researchers to examine the brain's interconnectivity as people listen to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Music Activities, Music Appreciation
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McCormack, Brittany A.; Klopper, Christopher – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
The ways in which we are able to communicate are, most of the time, dominated through speaking and listening. The ability to speak, listen and understand speech is the basis of oracy; a necessity within society today. The purpose of this study was to examine the interconnectedness of music and language to identify if music can assist in the…
Descriptors: Music Appreciation, Music Education, English (Second Language), Oral English
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Gordon, Josh; Gridley, Mark C. – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
Seven excerpts of modern jazz piano improvisations were selected to represent a range of perceived complexities. Audio recordings of the excerpts were played for 27 listeners who were asked to indicate their level of enjoyment on 7-point scales. Indications of enjoyment followed an inverted-U when plotted against perceived complexity of the music.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music Education, Aesthetics, Preferences
Edmundson, Mark – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Who hasn't at least once had the feeling of being remade through music? Who is there who does not date a new phase in life to hearing this or that symphony or song? But does music constantly provide revelation--or does it have some other effects, maybe less desirable? For those who teach, the question is especially pressing. Students tend to spend…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Musicians, Music Teachers
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Shieh, Eric – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2016
In this article, I document a series of pedagogical responses in my high school instrumental music classroom following the events of Eric Garner's murder in New York City. Foregrounding traditions of black radical politics and aesthetics originating with the Black Power Movement in the 1960s, I explore their implications for classroom practice in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, African Americans, Activism
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Boyce-Tillman, June – Music Educators Journal, 2013
Since early times, human beings have searched for spiritual experiences that provide connections to their hearts and souls. People sometimes find these connections through experiencing music--perhaps the last remaining ubiquitous spiritual experience in Western culture. And yet, material values rule our world, even in music education. Is music in…
Descriptors: Music Education, Mythology, Greek Civilization, Western Civilization
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Silveira, Jason M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among pacing, teacher effectiveness, and teacher intensity in the context of a realistic teaching situation. A scripted stimulus video was created in which the teacher demonstrated predefined pacing lapses to measure their effects on observers' ratings of teacher effectiveness, teacher…
Descriptors: College Students, Video Technology, Correlation, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kang, Sangmi – Music Educators Journal, 2013
A number of scholars have investigated the roots of the "Arirang," although the origins are debated. Most agree that the original form of the song "Arirang" was first found upstream from Seoul along the Han River. The lyrics told the story of a woman waiting for her lover on the bank of the river. The term "Arirang"…
Descriptors: Music Education, Global Education, Multicultural Education, Korean Culture
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Wang, Jui-Ching – General Music Today, 2015
Educated in a digital world, millennial children lack social interaction and actual hands-on activities involving tactile and kinesthetic training. To counteract this educational trend, traditional singing games that allow children to explore and make sense of their world physically can be valuable. This article introduces the traditional Javanese…
Descriptors: Music, Games, Singing, Thinking Skills
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Bolden, Benjamin – Music Educators Journal, 2013
This article describes uses for podcasts in music education, focusing on learner-created podcasts as an opportunity for students to construct and represent knowledge. The author outlines a podcast assignment that enables secondary and postsecondary students to examine and more deeply understand the meaning music holds for them and the role it has…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Developed Materials, Web 2.0 Technologies, Documentaries
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Vestad, Ingeborg Lunde – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2014
In this article I discuss children's everyday uses of recorded music (such as CDs, Mp3-files) in the light of sociological notions of "children" and "childhood". The discussion provides perspectives on musical engagement and musicality that supplement perspectives within developmental psychology. The study is based on…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Young Children, Interviews
Goble, J. Scott – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"What's So Important About Music Education?" addresses the history of rationales provided for music education in the United States. J. Scott Goble explains how certain factors stemming from the nation's constitutional separation of church and state, its embrace of democracy and capitalism, and the rise of recording, broadcast, and computer…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Music Teachers, Educational History
Olson, Cathy Applefeld – Teaching Music, 2012
For the Tower-Tannerts of Texas, music education runs in the family, and that's been the case for more than 100 years. Matriarch Mollie Gregory Tower is a lecturer at Texas State University and a former elementary school teacher, textbook writer, music supervisor, and president of the Texas Music Educators Conference (TMEC). Her daughter Debbie…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Singing, Music Teachers
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Elkins, Jennifer; Miller, Shari; Briggs, Harold; Skinner, Sara – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2015
This article describes a collaborative and emergent approach utilizing Tupac Shakur's "Brenda's Got a Baby" to leverage theory education. This song/video uses a fictionalized account of a pregnant 12-year-old African American girl to chronicle the ecological realities of life in the inner city (e.g., teen pregnancy, drug addiction and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grounded Theory, Social Work, Educational Theories
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Dikli, Semire, Ed.; Etheridge, Brian, Ed.; Rawls, Richard, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
In an effort to enhance the quality of education, universities and colleges are developing programs that help faculty and staff internationalize curriculum. These programs will purposefully develop the intercultural perspectives of students. "Curriculum Internationalization and the Future of Education" is a critical scholarly resource…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends, Active Learning
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