Investigates novice teachers' perceptions of pacing in music instruction and identifies the aspects of timing that are associated with evaluations of instructional pacing. Reports that pace of instruction was rated more positively when the rates of student performance episodes and teacher activity episodes were higher rather than lower. (CMK)

Examines a music teacher in a second-grade classroom in order to determine how the instructor taught and how the students learned. Identifies four themes related to the nature of teacher expertise and five themes on student learning. Reports that the teacher understood these issues and utilized the information to change teaching styles. (CMK)

Examines whether a relationship exists among the terms aesthetic response, felt emotional response, and perceived tension when used by individuals to describe personal responses to music. Compares music and nonmusic majors and reports no differences between them. Indicates a similarity between aesthetic and felt emotional response but a difference…

Explores whether listeners can discern if melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic parameters and pairings of these parameters are abstracted from the ongoing flow of a musical event. Reports that students in grades 3, 6, and 9 identified phrases as being the same as the initial phrase; grade 12 students identified different phrases more often. (CMK)

Calls for social science researchers to make the leap from understanding to action. Explains action and why it must replace classical disinterestedness and objectivity. Discusses the new criteria for educational research and the new methods for interpretive researchers. Addresses the implications for higher education. (CMK)

Demonstrates how a theoretical framework that includes a politics of difference and multicultural feminism may help reconceptualize democracy in general and education for democracy specifically. Indicates how universality has failed in practice, posits "equivalent rights" instead of "equal rights," and discusses instructional strategies to…

Analyzes high school social studies instruction according to P. H. Martorella's "alternative perspectives on citizenship education" framework. The study was based on a national survey of 500 high school social studies teachers holding membership in the National Council for the Social Studies. Discusses Martonella's five perspectives and the…

Revisits arguments posed in two 1970s articles from "Theory and Research in Social Education." Discusses topics such as the ideas of curriculum as embodiments of governing practices and the contributions of postmodern thought to educational theory, particularly knowledge as the effects of power. (CMK)

Responds to the article "From Understanding to Action: New Imperatives, New Criteria, New Methods for Interpretive Researchers" (Lincoln, Yvonna), asserting that Lincoln needs to further examine what kinds of action and collaboration are necessary for action-oriented research. Pulls the ideas about action toward a positivist and managerial…

Responds to the article "From Understanding to Action: New Imperatives, New Criteria, New Methods for Interpretive Researchers" (Lincoln, Yvonna), focusing on what Lincoln calls "the leap from understanding to action." Draws from two books: "Excitable Speech, A Politics of the Performative" (Butler, Judith) and "Fields of Play" (Richardson,…

Responds to the article "From Understanding to Action: New Imperatives, New Criteria, New Methods for Interpretive Researchers" (Lincoln, Yvonna). Uses a personal experience with educational research to comment on the research criteria that Lincoln calls positionality, portrayal, and action. (CMK)

Warns of the limitations of educational reform via standards and standardization as seen in New York, NY. Focuses on "culturally responsive pedagogy," which is needed to build a system sensitive to the backgrounds and contexts of students and schooling. (CMK)

Revisits the comments made in "Statement of Purposes and Style for Manuscripts" and "From the Editors" in the first issue (Volume 1, Number 1, 1973) of "Theory and Research in Social Education." Focuses on the conception of social studies education and its professional orientation. (CMK)

Explores the traveling cultural missions in Mexico, which were teams of educational specialists sent to prepare rural area citizens for modern public schools. Provides information on the missions, focusing on the role of the music specialist and music. Considers the legacy of the cultural missions. (CMK)

Uses a collaborative ethnography to explore how novice music teachers learn to teach elementary general music. Discusses the interaction of theory and practice. Presents an emergent set of assertions illustrating students' initial images and beliefs of teaching and a student profile illustrating the process of learning to teach music. (CMK)