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Catheryn Shaw Foster; Melody Causby – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary instrumental music education in rural Mississippi. This descriptive study investigated the experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions that rural instrumental music educators ("N" = 58) held about their schools, students, and communities. Furthermore, we examined how…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments, Teacher Attitudes
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Wagoner, Cynthia L.; Juchniewicz, Jay – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate current secondary woodwind, brass, and combined wind instrument methods courses for preservice music teachers across the United States. Two-hundred eleven (N = 211) wind methods course instructors from National Association of Schools of Music-accredited institutions completed an online survey that…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Isbell, Daniel S. – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine music education students' experiences (N = 64) in courses designed to develop vernacular musicianship and expand understandings of informal music making. Students participated in one of two classes (undergraduate/graduate), formed their own small ensembles, chose their own music and instruments, led their…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Musicians, Musical Instruments
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Isbell, Daniel S. – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2023
The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine the experiences of beginning music teachers as they navigate starting instrumental music programs in a large urban school district in the southern United States. A team of researchers collected data from three first-year music educators launching new instrumental programs at seven schools.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments, Music Education
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Munroe, Angela – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2021
While music education researchers have examined cooperating teacher and student teacher interactions via classroom observations and interviews, there is little research on extended dialogues between the cooperating teacher and student teacher or various mentoring roles (coach, guide, model, and evaluator) assumed by cooperating teachers. During…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Music Teachers, Music Education, Mentors
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Millican, J. Si – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this case study was to describe how one band director used pedagogical content knowledge while working with beginning-band students to help them develop the skill of playing brass lip slurs. Data were generated from (1) video recordings of each class over two different weeks during the school year, (2) "think aloud"…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Music Education, Music Teachers, Case Studies