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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
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
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
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
Lewis, Judy – Music Education Research, 2020
Almost twenty years ago, the question of 'How popular musicians learn' (Green, [2002]. "How popular musicians learn: A way ahead for music education." Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited) catalyzed a paradigm shift in music education and music teacher education bringing informal teaching and learning strategies to the fore. In…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education
Clauhs, Matthew; Sanguinetti, Rachael – Music Education Research, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, values, and beliefs of New York music teachers towards the inclusion of popular music in the classroom. This research was guided by the following questions: (1) To what extent are K-12 teachers interested in teaching a variety of popular music instruments and styles?; (2) What attitudes and…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Music Education, Popular Culture
O'Flynn, John; Moore, Gwen; Burgess, Frances; Moore, Jayne – Music Education Research, 2022
This article investigates policy and provision of music in initial teacher education (ITE) in Ireland and Northern Ireland through a novel approach to comparative music education in ITE. Employing literature reviews and a survey of music ITE policy and provision in the two jurisdictions, it draws on a range of primary and secondary sources and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Music Teachers
Lewis, Judy; Christophersen, Catharina – Music Education Research, 2021
There has been a growing realisation in social justice literature that there are barriers to music teaching and learning, privileging certain musics and certain people. Recent writings suggest that practice-near perspectives may provide valuable insights into the particularities and complexities of social (in)justice within music education.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Ethnography, Music Education, Action Research
Albert, Daniel J. – Music Education Research, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice music educators' perceptions of how the culture of a music teacher education programme and its embedded communities of practice influenced their occupational identity development. Research questions were (1) What specific cultural influences and communities of practice, if any, did the…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity
McNeill, Jeff; McPhail, Graham – Music Education Research, 2020
This paper reports on the second stage of an international study exploring the future of secondary school music education. Within a discursive context that tends to regard music education as failing to meet the needs of many students, we instigated a three-step Delphi study to capture views from educators across the English-speaking world.…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Music Education, Teacher Attitudes, Music Teachers
Svalina, Vesna; Šimunovic, Zrinka – Music Education Research, 2023
Croatian music education is implemented within the national education system. In this research, we focused on secondary education, or, more precisely, on teachers who work in Specialised music schools -- independent institutions that prepare students for higher education in the field of music. The national curriculum for art education in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
Wong, Kwan Yie; Pan, Kok Chang; Shah, Shahanum Mohd – Music Education Research, 2016
This study examined the utilisation of multicultural music education by Malaysian music teachers, with an emphasis on the relationship between music teachers' attitudes and their subsequent degree of effort in developing and implementing multicultural music education in their music classes. Respondents for the study were 456 music teachers;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Educational Research, Multicultural Education
Paananen, Pirkko – Music Education Research, 2022
This study examined Finnish first-and second-year music education major students and primary education students who participate 25-credits minor subject studies in music, childhood and adolescent musical experiences and musical paths. The participants (N = 30) were asked to write an essay on the topic 'Music and Me'. Using holistic content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Music Education, Music Teachers
Tan, Leonard – Music Education Research, 2016
In this philosophical paper, I propose a theory of music education inspired by ancient Chinese philosophy. In particular, I draw on five classical Chinese philosophical texts: the Analects (lunyu [Chinese characters omitted]), the Mencius (Mengzi [Chinese characters omitted]), the Zhuangzi ([Chinese characters omitted]), the Xunzi ([Chinese…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Confucianism