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Mei-Ying Liao; Lee-Chen Chen; Po-Ya Huang – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
This study investigated the integration of loose parts into preschool arts education to enhance children's learning experiences, particularly within in-between spaces and centered around music, combining visual arts and dramatic play. Conducted as a case study in a Taiwanese private preschool, the research explored the use of loose parts in art…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hélène Widmann; Marc Perrenoud; Angelika Güsewell; Marc Audétat – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
This article presents the results of the "Jazz Alumni" survey conducted in 2022 on the career beginnings of the musicians who obtained a jazz master's degree at HEMU--Haute école de musique in French-speaking Switzerland between 2011 and 2017. Based on a mixed-methods diachronic approach, the study included 45 graduates (38 men and 7…
Descriptors: French, Musicians, Music, Masters Degrees
Oliver Curbelo-González; Paula Hernández-Dionis; Cristina Martín Sanz; David Pérez-Jorge – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
Numerous studies have demonstrated the substantial advantages of integrating music education into the overall development of students, particularly in early childhood education. This integration allows for combining music education with various curriculum areas, utilizing its playful and motivating nature as a practical methodological tool for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Music Education, Program Implementation, Music Teachers
Creating Affordances for Families with Young Children: Experiences of Music Education in Social Work
Laura Huhtinen-Hildén; Sanna Kivijärvi; Minna Elomaa-Krapu; Anna-Maria Isola – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
The current research examines the possibilities of music education in supporting the well-being of families living in demanding life situations. The context for the study is "Family Sound Hammock," a 3-year research and development project that took place in the metropolitan area of Finland from 2020 to 2023. The project aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Social Work
Emmett J. O'Leary; Julie K. Bannerman – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
TeachersPayTeachers.com is an online marketplace where sellers offer learning activities, lesson plans, decorations, and related materials for use in school classrooms. The marketplace includes thousands of music education materials that are used by teachers throughout the United States. The purpose of this study was to explore the content of what…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Activities, Web Sites
Tao Guan; Jin Liu; Ning Luo – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
The promotion of cultural sustainability and cultural identity through the transmission of traditional music has become a prevalent theme in global music education. This instrumental case study, conducted in a capital city in south China (1) investigated the ways in which Chinese orchestra learning influences primary school students' cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Music, Music Education
Kelly Lin – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
Refugee children are a significant part of contemporary Canadian classrooms. Children who have fled their homes as refugees have experienced trauma and bear the effects of it socially, emotionally and academically. My study identifies trauma-sensitive strategies that music educators in Ontario are using to support refugee students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Su-Young Bae; Sumi Kwon; Jee-Ye Lee – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
This study investigated the effects of a practice checklist on performance achievement, practice time, focal practice areas--the key musical elements students focused on during practice--and practice strategies among non-music major South Korean college students learning the "Danso," a traditional Korean wind instrument. Ninety-six…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Check Lists, Music Education, College Students
Rivka Elkoshi – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Within an Orff-based program implemented in Israel, this mixed-methods study examined the effects of age on emerging rhythmic literacy in children. Participants (N = 132) were kindergarteners (n = 45) and first-graders (n = 87) aged 4 to 7.8 years. The participants performed a rhythm entitled "Rhythm-A" through the body and instrumental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Leon R. de Bruin – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Feedback is a powerful influence on learning and achievement in the instrumental music lesson, though this impact may render positive as well as negative implications to learning. The impact of feedback is thus foundational to the ways music teachers impart knowledge, skill, planning, reflection, and student motivation. This article provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Feedback (Response)
Daniel Mateos-Moreno; Ernst Erlanson – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
'Simultaneous Learning' (SL) is a pedagogical approach aimed at fostering enjoyable and proactive music teaching. Developed by the British educationalist Paul Harris, SL has been taught worldwide for the past two decades but has not yet been investigated by a scholarly publication. We thus focused our research on the first usage of SL in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Music Education, Foreign Countries
Aleksandra Acker; Berenice Nyland – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Music, especially singing with others, is a highly emotive experience and has been a core of an early childhood education philosophy that has promoted a social image of the child, where children are portrayed as competent communicators, individuals with rights and members of a community. How children think and learn has been an on-going emphasis…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Singing, Early Childhood Education, Music Education
Darrell Townshend – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Musician-teacher identity is a "work-in-progress" spanning a career lifetime, yet little research appears to explore how this culminative development occurs, particularly from an individualized musician-teacher viewpoint. Using a qualitative epistemology, the author examines autoethnographic vignettes of life experience to highlight how…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Music Education, Music Teachers
António Oliveira; Gary E. McPherson; Luísa Mota Ribeiro; Patrícia Oliveira-Silva – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Admission procedures to elementary school in Music Conservatoires in Portugal consist in the assessment of aural aptitude. This investigation aims at assessing the power of aural aptitude at predicting future musical achievement as well as the assessment of two other variables for the same purpose: motivation and intentions of parental support.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Young Children, Parents
Robert H. Woody – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
This action research study provides insight into the learning of university music education students who participated in a popular musicianship experience. The participants were thirty-four music education students (i.e. pre-service music educators) at an American university enrolled in a student-directed Popular Musicianship course. Although…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education