Volume 18 Number 1: A Survey of Mentoring Programs for Novice K-12 Teachers...
During the first three years of teaching, most novice teachers are still learning how to apply the principles of teaching to the practice of teaching. Lack of personal experience often places novice...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Historical Reprint: Teaching Instrumental Music
Seeing music education through the eyes of children leads to developing deepened conceptualizations of children’s daily musical lives, both in- and out-of-school. By thoughtfully attending to...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Navigation On-Site Teaching Experiences: Multiple...
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to examine the inner workings oftwo school-university partnerships as experienced by four stakeholders. The specificobjectives of this study included (a)...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Parental Support and Student Learning of Musical...
This paper examines students’ perceptions of parental involvement in and support fortheir learning a musical instrument. It draws from a self-completed questionnaire given to356 young instrumental...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: “If I Have Time”: Junior High School Instrumentalists’...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the attitudes and perceptions of junior highschool students (n = 6) regarding home musical practice through semi-structured interviews.The...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Through the Eyes of Children: Telling Insights into Music...
Seeing music education through the eyes of children leads to developing deepened conceptualizations of children’s daily musical lives, both in- and out-of-school. By thoughtfully attending to...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Paradise Lost? A Critical Examination of Idealistic...
Many music educators choose their profession not only for the love of music, but also because of the desire to transform students’ personalities and character through the power of music. Idealistic...
View ArticleVolume 19 Number 1: Editorial
It is early fall in the United States and the time when children and their teachers return to school for the new academic year. As school begins, it is timely that the authors in this issue of Visions...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Do You Hear What I Hear? Musical Maps and Felt Pathways...
This study focuses on the nature of students’ musical expressions as they make meaning while listening. Based on the students’ natural and valued use of enactive strategies and visual representations...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Learning in Time
The terms and concepts of music theory serve as tools for maintaining a practice through teaching and learning. They can also serve for exploration and discovery to follow changing practice or to...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: About Time: Strategies of Performance Revealed in Graphs
This paper describes how insights into performance strategies can arise from observations derived from measurements as well as visual inspection of graphs of expressive parameters. The widespread...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Channeling Bamberger: An Unorthodox Appreciation of...
This article serves as a tribute to Bamberger as a notable researcher and teacher. The author articulates “working principles” that characterize Bamberger’s work and draws comparisons between two...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Representations of Music: Neural Foundations and...
In Jeanne Bamberger's (1991) instructive case study on Jeff's learning, Bamberger observed and systematically ordered altering qstates of mental representations. In this study, Bamberger introduced and...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Jeanne Bamberger – Vignettes from 1974-1976
When I received the invitation to write an article about Jeanne Bamberger and her work, I wrote her an email saying that I had not written an academic paper in many years. Her response: “Just tell...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Reminiscence on Studying with Jeanne Bamberger
I studied with Jeanne in the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was an undergraduate at Harvard and cross-registered to take classes at MIT. Jeanne and I have stayed in touch since my time studying with...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Composing Pieces for Peace: Using Impromptu to Build...
Music has long played a role as an ambassador for peace and understanding between cultures. Yet, there is little research that gauges how creating music aids in the development of cross-cultural...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Alternative Representations for Music Composition
Music teachers use standard notation and alternative representations of music in software programs to engage children in composition. However, there are benefits and limitations to these...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Experience Design and Interactive Software in Music...
This paper examines the integration of computing technologies into music education research in a way informed by constructivism. In particular, this paper focuses on an approach established by Jeanne...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: On Chunking, Simples, and Paradoxes: Why Jeanne...
Most schooling focuses on the learning of facts, imparted by the teacher for students to memorize and retrieve. Many teachers and professors assume that they have done their jobs if the students can...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Tribute to Jeanne Bamberger: Pre-eminent Student of...
Extending beyond her work in the psychology of music, Jeanne has become an important thinker in the cognitive sciences. While a deep concern about music has always been central to her work, she views...
View ArticleVolume 20 Number 1: Editorial
The phrase “curiosity killed the cat” often serves as a warning to children that if they are too curious, they could get into trouble. Parents use it when they have been bombarded with too many ''why''...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: Book Review: The Maturity of a Field: The MENC Handbook...
The latest two-volume MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning attempts to furnish the field with an up-to-date compendium of research in music education.
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: Historical Reprint: Music and the Redefinition of...
A reprint of two seminal speeches by James Mursell, originally published in Music Educators Journal, April-DOI: 10.2307/3386496 and May/June-DOI: 10.2307/3386463 issues. Copyright 1943 by National...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: Mursell and Dewey in 2012: Would They Fit In Today?
James Mursell was one of the most influential writers in the field of music education during the 20th century. His position that music should be presented to students as an aesthetic entity, its beauty...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: A Qualitative Exploration of Selected Writings by James...
This qualitative exploration sought to understand how James Mursell (1893-1963) articulated the aims of music education, the role of the school music program, and the role of the music teacher...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: Dewey's Bastards: Mursell, Broudy, McMurray, and the...
This paper explores the demise of progressive music education in America during the 1940s and 1950s, when philosopher John Dewey and other social progressives were being blamed by conservatives for a...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: John Dewey and James Mursell: Progressive Educators for...
The purpose of this paper was to compare and contrast basic information regarding philosophies, educational approaches, and societal debates involving John Dewey and James Mursell. The paper includes a...
View ArticleVolume 21 Number 1: Editorial
During the 2010 Conference XXII of the MayDay Group at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, Frank Abrahams invited me to examine the connections between the philosophies of...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Book Review: Sociology and Music Education, Ashgate 2010
A review by Patrick Schmidt of Sociology and Music Education. Ruth Wright, editor. Burlington, VA: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6801-5
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Historical Reprint: Teaching Performing Groups
A reprint of From Research to the Music Classroom, No. 2: Teaching Performing Groups by Charles H. Benner. Copyright © 1972 by National Association for Music Education (formerly MENC). Reprinted with...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Exploring Views from University Faculty and Cooperating...
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine perspectives of experienced university faculty and cooperating teachers in general music education. The co-authors’ four guiding research questions...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Exploration of Student Development through Songwriting
This research explored the personal development resulting from songwriting interactions of undergraduate liberal arts students in two sections of a first-year experience course working to develop and...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Music Teachers' Professional Growth: Experiences of...
In recent years, increasing numbers of students have chosen to enroll in degree programs that include an online component. The purpose of this study was to explore music teachers’ perceptions about how...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Finding a Place in Music Education: The Lived Experiences...
This study is a qualitative investigation of the perspectives of seven music educators with “nontraditional” backgrounds–individuals who play instruments that are not part of the traditional large...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Students' Journal Writing Practices and Opinions in a...
This article presents an empirical investigation of students' opinions about summary/reaction journals and their practices in writing those journals within a percussion methods course. An...
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Tracing the Transformation of Early Childhood Music...
The purpose of this study was to examine the trends of early childhood music education as they presented themselves from 1985 to 2010 in a major early childhood education journal, Young Children (YC)....
View ArticleVolume 22 Number 1: Editorial
This issue of Visions of Research in Music Education features articles that explore diverse areas of inquiry and expand the boundaries of music education. From early childhood music, songwriting, and...
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