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Hyesoo Yoo – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
In music educators' endeavoring to integrate equity into our curriculum, adopting a rhizomatic approach could provide a valuable perspective for reassessing the Western classical tradition as the norm. From a philosophical perspective, the rhizome is perceived as an interconnected multiplicity, where various elements are intricately connected…
Descriptors: Music Education, Multicultural Education, Classical Music, Non Western Civilization
Melissa A. Lloyd – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a topic of growing interest and relevance to music educators, particularly those who teach elementary general music. While there are natural connections between music education and SEL, the incorporation of SEL into a music curriculum must be done with purpose and intent. Many elementary general music teachers…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Educational Objectives, Student Evaluation, Social Emotional Learning
Emily G. Eldridge – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Many scholars and pedagogues have noted the various benefits that class piano can offer to student development, but few have noted the great potential for the piano class to address current prevailing issues in music education. The most pressing of these issues has centered on preparing students for the future through building 21st century skills,…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects
Emily Hatch – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Performing music is one of the fundamental processes of music education. A musical performance includes not only singing or playing accurate notes and rhythms but also making interpretive decisions to convey music expressively. The author researched to find out the best strategies for developing expressive performance, and then created a lesson…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Performance, Lesson Plans
Cameron R. Siegal – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Of individuals with an intellectual disability, 1% are recognized as having a profound intellectual disability and commonly present at a mental age of roughly three years or below. While inclusive music education models and therapeutic models have received considerable attention, there is a scarcity of literature on music education for students…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Music Education
Katy Ieong Cheng Ho Weatherly – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
This article examines paradoxes in music education, focusing on tensions between inclusivity, democratization, and the traditional concept of "excellence." Drawing on theories from Maxine Greene and recent research on democratic education, I explore strategies to bridge the divide between formal and informal learning, institutional music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Inclusion, Democratic Values, Educational Quality
Reciprocal Peer Teaching in Elementary General Music Classrooms Using Orff Schulwerk and Modern Band
David J. Saccardi; David Dockan – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Music classrooms have incorporated elements of cooperative peer learning for generations. Whether sharing an instrument or composing a song together, peers interact in many meaningful and spontaneous ways. While the principles of peer-assisted learning (PAL) might be familiar to many music teachers, the process and structures of reciprocal peer…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning
Kexin Xu – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Not all in-service general music teachers received instruction in vocal pedagogy for young voices. However, teaching children how to sing is highly complex. By understanding adult vocal registers and children's vocal development, as well as using effective vocal modeling and varied feedback, music teachers may create a learning experience that can…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Singing, Music Education, Child Development
Francis Ward; Patricia Shehan Campbell – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Ireland's music is at times energetic and spirited, and other times pensive and even plaintive, depending upon the occasion. It is linked to the heritage of many North Americans, both in the United States and Canada, who trace their family histories to Ireland, and it is both centuries old and newly composed, as is the composition by Francis Ward,…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Folk Culture, Cultural Education
Davis, Virginia Wayman; Culp, Mara E. – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
Music education in the United States aims to be for every child, yet many students become less interested in school music as they mature. Although previous research reveals activities that upper-elementary students may prefer, much of this research may not represent 21st-century students, the instruments and activities that have enhanced curricula…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Music Activities, Class Activities
Mapana, Kedmon; Campbell, Patricia Shehan – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
In East Africa, Tanzania's musical expressions are rich and varied, and typically a combination of music and dance. A description of "Nindo," a multipart vocal music form of the central Tanzanian Wagogo community, is provided, and a tribute is offered to the legacy of an important village artist, Mchoya, of the musical form that is begin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Influences
Jacobi, Bonnie S. – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
Sensory learning can be traced back to ancient Greek times, and the sense of touch holds multiple types of benefits for classroom music learning. Touch is also a prerequisite for children's future intellectual and social development. Between ages three and seven, a child's physical and perceptual development is in a formational stage. Despite…
Descriptors: Music Education, Tactual Perception, Child Development, Sensory Experience
Sanguinetti, Rachael D. – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
Student motivation is frequently an issue in general music classrooms, and many long-standing theories designed to increase motivation have the opposite effect. This article introduces Self-Determination Theory, first developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, as a theory of human motivation. A key element of Self-Determination Theory is the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Self Determination, Theories, Personal Autonomy
Stephanie Cronenberg – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
What might the field of music education do to learn, grow, and reinvent itself as we emerge from COVID-19 and virtual learning? Implied in the "return to normal" discourse, permeating all areas of music education in the year or more following virtual learning is the felt need to keep going and return to music education as usual. Yet…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Daniel C. Johnson; Kristin Harney; Amorette B. Languell-Pudelka; Caroline Kanzler – Journal of General Music Education, 2024
The natural rhythm and inflection of language offer multiple and authentic ways for music teachers to connect their curriculum with learning in English Language Arts (ELA). While still addressing the National Core Arts Standards, music teachers can connect with ELA skills such as reading, writing, and speaking-listening. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Music Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Music Teachers