A Guide to Research in Music Education - Hardcover

Phelps, Roger P.; Ferrara, Lawrence; Goolsby, Thomas W.

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9780810825369: A Guide to Research in Music Education

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ISBN 10: 0810825368 ISBN 13: 9780810825369

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1994

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Now available in paperback! The continuing demand for a practical guide to the basic concepts and techniques of research methodologies as applied to music education has resulted in an extensively rewritten fourth edition of this popular textbook, first published in 1969. The four logical parts of this new edition are Research Problem Identification, Writing the Research Proposals and the Research Document, Research Methodologies: Concepts and Techniques, and Music Education Research: A Glimpse into the Future. The Guide is the only single volume source that includes a chapter on procedures for obtaining and treating data in the aesthetic, descriptive, experimental, historical, philosophical, qualitative, and quantitative areas. Cloth edition originally published in 1993.

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...the introductory chapters in particular, with their bullet-pointed lists summarizing points for 'Review, discussion, and implementation,' provide some food for thought for UK research students in music education...Students who intend to make use, in their research, of 'Measurement, statistical principles, and models to verify the phenomenon being studied' will no doubt find much of use here. * Music Teacher * ...provides guidance on research proposals, field research strategies, data analysis, and statistical techniques for honors and postgraduate students in music. This fifth edition contains a new chapter on music and technology, plus updated information on the integration of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry, formulating and implementing research problems, and aligning qualitative research with recent concepts and techniques. * Reference and Research Book News * ...the introductory chapters in particular, with their bullet-pointed lists summarizing points for 'Review, discussion, and implementation,' provide some food for thought for UK research students in music education...Students who intend to make use, in their research, of 'Measurement, statistical principles, and models to verify the phenomenon being studied' will no doubt find much of use here. Music Teacher ...provides guidance on research proposals, field research strategies, data analysis, and statistical techniques for honors and postgraduate students in music. This fifth edition contains a new chapter on music and technology, plus updated information on the integration of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry, formulating and implementing research problems, and aligning qualitative research with recent concepts and techniques. Reference and Research Book News

About the Author:

Roger Phelps is Professor Emeritus and former Chairman, Music and Music Professions, NYU. He has degrees from the Eastman school of Music, Northwestern University, and the University of Iowa. Lawrence Ferrara, Professor of Music and Director of Doctoral Studies in Music and Music Professions, NYU, is author of Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation, Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Sound, Form, and Reference. Thomas W. Goolsby, on the Music Education faculty at the University of Washington, is a Fulbright Scholar in Educational Research. His text, The Teaching of Instrumental Music, was co-authored with Richard J. Colwell.

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