If at surface level only, two features most obviously distinguish contemporary, formal music
education from that of say, 30 years ago. The first is the presence in many classrooms of …

The specialized curricula of music education degree programs afford relatively few
opportunities to cultivate educators' abilities to recognize, acknowledge, and incorporate …

Philosophers of music education presently find themselves suspended between
modernism's universalist convictions and post-modernism's cultural relativist insights. In …

In this study I analyze curriculum design in the postmodern era in relation to alternative
styles in string music education. Curriculum design through the work of Doll (1993) and …

Here is the reader who no longer has to read, who has everything under control.
Furthermore, there is the reader who does not read either, but who awaits the arrival of the …

Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music
should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation …

The world of Irish traditional music is one defined by its multiple, porous, and overlapping
experiential contexts. This dynamic, living, and continuously evolving system of meanings …

The purpose of this study was to better understand the musical engagement of adolescent
males enrolled in a general music class in order to learn what factors of the environment …

Literacy education defined as the reading and writing of print text is undergoing a
paradigmatic shift towards a pedagogy of multiliteracies (Cole & Pullen, 2010). At the same …

The Variety Show: Why Classical String Musicians are Exploring a Multistyle Approach to
Teaching Page 1 James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses …