Inquiry in Music Education

Inquiry in Music Education: Concepts and Methods for the Beginning Researcher, Second Edition introduces research and scholarship in music education as an ongoing spiral of inquiry, exploring research conventions that are applicable beyond music to the other arts and humanities as well.

Autorentext

Carol Frierson-Campbell is Professor at William Paterson University.

Hildegard C. Froehlich is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas.

Zusammenfassung
Inquiry in Music Education: Concepts and Methods for the Beginning Researcher, Second Edition introduces research and scholarship in music education as an ongoing spiral of inquiry, exploring research conventions that are applicable beyond music to the other arts and humanities as well.

Inhalt

Introduction. Learning about the Book and Getting Involved / Part I. Entering the World of Questioning / **Chapter 1. The Spiral and Modes of Inquiry: Options, Choices, and Initial Decisions / Chapter 2. Finding and Mapping Sources of Information / Chapter 3. Toward a Rationale and Research Plan: Writing a Contract with Yourself / Part II. Methods in Modes of Inquiry / Chapter 4. Ways of Thinking and their Consequences / Chapter 5. Approaches in the Philosophical Mode of Inquiry / Chapter 6. Historical Inquiry: Getting Inside the Process (Marie McCarthy) / Chapter 7. Purposes and Questions in Qualitative Research **/ Chapter 8. Selected Procedures for Gathering, Analyzing, and Reflecting on Qualitative Data / Chapter 9. Quantitative Research in Music Education: Letting Numbers Speak / Chapter 10. **Understanding Descriptive Statistics (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 11. Interpreting Correlations (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 12. Designing Ex Post Facto and Experimental Studies (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 13. Exploring Mixed Methods, Practitioner, and Arts-Based Inquiry / Chapter 14. Tools for Data Gathering: Basics of Content and Construction / Chapter 15. "So What?" Interpreting and Sharing your Findings / Recapitulation. Placing Your Research Experience in the Bigger Picture / Appendix A: Working out a Course or Project Timeline / Appendix B: Selected "'isms" as found by Rainbow & Froehlich, 1987 / Appendix C: John Curwen Observes Sarah Glover Teaching Music / Appendix D: Sample Template for Organizing Coded Qualitative Data and Files / Appendix E: Choices in Statistical Tests for Parametric and Non-parametric Data