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Yinger, Olivia Swedberg; Vasil, Martina; Sheridan, Alaina – Music Education Research, 2023
There is a need for music education research that uplifts and affirms disabled children by exploring their perceptions of participation in musical experiences in music classrooms. The purpose of this position paper is to a) define what it means to centre perspectives of disabled children, b) provide a rationale for centring perspectives of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Research, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
Hilary McQueen; Esther Cavett – Music Education Research, 2024
In 2019 the Society for Music Analysis commissioned a report to find out if stakeholders in music education agreed that knowledge and/or skills in music literacy had declined for those applying to study music at university in England. The ensuing mixed methods study collected data from a range of stakeholders through interviews (N = 33),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Stakeholders, Music
Fairbanks, Stephen – Music Education Research, 2022
Between 2007 and 2017, El Sistema -- Venezuela's national system of youth orchestras -- enjoyed a seemingly unexplainable meteoric rise, followed by an equally spectacular sunset. Although it would be easy to dismiss this Sistema decade as being no more than a peculiar aberration of music education history, I assert that El Sistema more accurately…
Descriptors: Music Education, Activism, Social Change, Foreign Countries
Lorenzo, Oswaldo; Turcu, Ioana R. – Music Education Research, 2023
The academic context of Romanian higher education music lecturers has not yet completely overcome the influence of the socio-political scenario from before the fall of the communist system. This contributes to the international isolation of Rumanians higher music education, marginalising its institutions from the European Higher Education Area.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Music Education, Music Teachers
Buchborn, Thade; Burnard, Pamela; Hebert, David G.; Moore, Gwen – Music Education Research, 2022
Global and societal changes present profound challenges and complexities for the future of music education practice and research. In these times of rapid change, four members of the MER editorial board reflect on the need to challenge normalising discourses of music education and encourage new understandings and/or territories within the field. In…
Descriptors: Music Education, Futures (of Society), COVID-19, Pandemics
Shaw, Luan – Music Education Research, 2023
A skilled music education workforce is essential to ensure longevity of music-making for future generations of young learners and access to high-quality instrumental music tuition remains crucial for school-aged pupils. Yet, Higher Education providers, including conservatoires, are not held accountable for providing high-quality pedagogical…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education, Labor Force
Adeogun, Adebowale Oluranti – Music Education Research, 2021
This article argues that coloniality is an ongoing feature of university music education in Nigeria. It uses a multiple colonialisms framework in exploring Nigerian higher music education systems as historical and contemporary sites of colonialism within which Nigerian universities engage in music knowledge generation to reach this conclusion. It…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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
Tom Attah; Esther Cavett; Byron Dueck; Sue Miller; Lauren Redhead – Music Education Research, 2024
This multi-authored article offers accounts of how programmes for teaching music theory within the Western-notated tradition were created in two UK higher education institutions. These accounts are followed by two more discursive reflections on the nature and purpose of music education today, advocating the importance of listening skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music Theory, Higher Education
Bacchi, Carol – Music Education Research, 2023
This article introduces an analytic strategy or thinking tool called the 'What's the Problem Represented to be?' (WPR) approach and suggests its usefulness for reflecting on important debates in music education. First developed as a mode of policy analysis, WPR has since been adopted in many fields and topic areas. The WPR approach consists of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Epistemology, Problem Solving, Educational Policy
Kinsella, Victoria; Fautley, Martin; Whittaker, Adam – Music Education Research, 2022
Music education in England has been in a state of flux for a number of years due to the complexities and variability of its delivery. Many of the issues surrounding music education in England are associated with policy and practice in schools, and the complexities of funding and deployment of music activities. This creates contextual, structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation
Väkevä, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi; Ilmola-Sheppard, Leena – Music Education Research, 2022
This study presents an analysis of hidden elitism in music education through the free choice argument -- that individuals are fundamentally free to choose to study music -- as a meritocratic power structure. Qualitative Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is applied to understand music education as a social system with a special structure in which its…
Descriptors: School Choice, Music Education, Power Structure, Social Systems
Moberg, Nadia – Music Education Research, 2023
While writing is undeniably an essential part of higher education, in music education, musical performance skills form the core of assessing students' results. However, higher music education is experiencing growing demands on research activities parallel to heightened requirements on music performance students' abilities to formulate themselves…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, Graduate Students, Music Education, Performance
Poon, Pearly Tsz Wai; Chen, Jason Chi Wai – Music Education Research, 2023
This study explores the impacts of popular music education in classroom practices from different aspects such as learning by ear, motivation, musicianship, peer learning and creativity. The Sing by Ear approach was created based on the concepts of informal learning in singing a cappella. A total of 323 participants aged 11-14 were invited to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Popular Culture, Music Techniques
Aróstegui, José Luis – Music Education Research, 2020
This paper discusses the influence of neoliberalism and the knowledge economy in national curricula, and in school music education in particular, in order to cope with the role school music is playing and it could play in a curriculum conceived 'to boost the knowledge economy' currently in effect in most of the countries. For this, some economy…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Music Education, National Curriculum, Role