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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
James Henry Byrne Humberstone; Catherine Zhao; Danny Liu; Mary Elizabeth – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Contemporary literature suggests that music education is stuck in a cycle of cultural reproduction in which music teachers and curriculum writers value Western art music more than culturally-diverse and modern, technology-saturated music's, and train the next generation to hold similar views. A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was developed to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, World Views
Carl Ian Pilkington – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Forced to navigate and negotiate their positionality and subjectivity, queer music educators confront unique challenges in heteronormative schooling environments. This minority group is often associated with the music industry. Still, upon entering an educational context, they navigate and negotiate their identity, specifically the tension between…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Music Teachers, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
Raychl Smith – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
How can music educators explore the intersections of spirituality, relationships, and music education? The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Pixar film, "Soul," models the transformation that can occur when a music teacher embraces spirituality and the preciousness of everyday life both in and out of the classroom through…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musicians, Popular Culture
Angelina Wang; Graham McPhail – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Musical Futures (MF) is an internationally recognised approach to music teaching aimed at developing high levels of student engagement through practical music making. Set up in the UK in 2003 "Musical Futures" is typical of approaches to education aimed at increasing levels of student autonomy through a strong emphasis on student-led…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Learner Engagement
Martínez-Rodríguez, Marta – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
The history of music is shaped through narratives that sometimes contain a number of issues regarding cultural stereotypes, historiographic approaches, Eurocentrism or colonialism. For this reason, its transmission and the way it is taught must be the object of study and careful consideration. The present research analyses -- on the basis of…
Descriptors: Music, Criticism, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation
Zhang, Le-Xuan; Leung, Bo-Wah; Yang, Yang – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Demonstration lessons are used in China to provide models of quality music instruction. However, to date, no research has been done on the quality of demonstration lessons and how this relates to the improvement of school music education in China. This content analysis provides an insight into China's music demonstration lesson implementation and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Orman, Evelyn K.; Frega, Ana Lucía – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
This descriptive study reports analyses of titles (N = 636) and authors (N = 1,012) of published research papers presented at the 1st through 27th International Society for Music Education (ISME) Research Commission (RC) seminars from 1968 through 2018. We considered global impact based on manuscript citations, times countries or specific global…
Descriptors: Authors, Trend Analysis, Seminars, Music Education
Papazachariou-Christoforou, Maria – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Recently, a growing interest from music educators and researchers has focused on the ways informal music learning practices could be integrated in schools' classrooms, in a response to bridge the gap between the music studied at school and the hidden or private musical world of our students. This qualitative case study investigated the use of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Music Education, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools