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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Johansen, Geir – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2014
Studies on sociology and music education are important because they can enlighten how music education relates to social change. By studying how music education changes and is changed by society we enable ourselves to describe how it can contribute to the understanding of social change generally. This may lay the ground for us in contributing to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Sociology, Social Change, Social Theories
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McClellan, Edward – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among social identity, value of music education, musician-teacher orientation, selected demographic factors, and self-concept as a music educator. Participants (N = 968) were volunteer undergraduate music education majors enrolled at four-year institutions granting a bachelor of music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Talbot, Brent C. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2013
This article addresses the intrapersonal aims of music education with specific emphasis on musical identity. For the author, the question "Who am I?" is ingrained, shaped, and experienced by the contexts, relationships, and activities in which people are most deeply invested. Thus, he believes that music education should have mechanisms…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Music, Music Education, College Students
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Stewart Rose, Leslie; Countryman, June – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2013
Several years ago, the author's relocated their work as educators from middle and high school music classrooms to positions in teacher education at two Canadian universities. Recognizing that working in initial teacher education demanded a new level of theorizing their practices of music education, they questioned their professional…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Practices, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
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Kallio, Alexis Anja; Partti, Heidi – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2013
In this article the author's examine, through the cases of Finland and Cambodia, expressions of constructive patriotism in educational policy, curriculum documents and music teacher actions and reflections. This study is part of a broader cross-cultural exchange project: "Multicultural Arts University", between researchers and music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Policy, Patriotism, Music Teachers
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Bjorck, Cecilia – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2011
This article examines how notions of freedom are linked to popular music practices in previous research literature. The author discusses how two competing discourses depict popular music practices on the one hand as "freedom," and on the other hand as "constraint," and how these ideas relate to gender. She also argues that unproblematized…
Descriptors: Music, Freedom, Academic Discourse, Scholarship