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Mia Mucic – Music Education Research, 2024
Music lessons in Croatia are characterised by the existence of three areas that intertwine and complement each other. Thus, in music lessons, students will listen to music, participate in various activities regarding their musical expression, and learn about music. A music teacher can choose which activities of musical expression he will carry out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Music, Music Education
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Després, Jean-Philippe – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
Accessing the strategies implemented during real-time musical creative processes represents a challenge for researchers. Retrospective verbal protocol with subjective aided recall (RVPwSAR), where a first-person video is used as an aid to elicit feedback from a subject, has shown great potential for the study of real-time decision-making in sport,…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Video Technology, Feedback (Response)
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Thibeault, Matthew D. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2022
In this historical study, I present the emergence and evolution of Jamey Aebersold's Play-A-Long volumes and their key role in bringing jazz improvisation to formal music education. Drawing on oral histories and using a framework from sound studies, I present chord-scales and pattern playing as Deweyan conceptual technologies that assist beginners…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Activities, Music Education, Music
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de Bruin, Leon R. – Music Education Research, 2019
For musicians, learning to improvise requires individual and collaborative skill and knowledge that in experts is acquired over years of immersion and enculturation. Learning formally, informally or a combination of both, improvisers 'learn to learn' by evolving meta-cognitive capabilities necessary to develop and refine improvisational expertise.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Informal Education, Music Activities, Creative Activities
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Bjerstedt, Sven – British Journal of Music Education, 2016
Theoretical approaches to learning in practice-based jazz improvisation contexts include situated learning and ecological perspectives. This article focuses on how interest-driven, self-sustaining jazz learning activities can be matched against the concepts of stolen knowledge (Brown & Duguid, 1996) and landscape of learning (Bjerstedt, 2014).…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Music Activities
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Xiang, Sophia – LEARNing Landscapes, 2019
Written from the perspective of a Grade 5/6 French Immersion teacher, this paper examines the role of music, poetry, and the visual arts in enhancing learner identity, in the context of the elementary school classroom. It begins with a focus on artistic metaphors that represent cultural and linguistic hyphenation. It then addresses practical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, French, Immersion Programs, Music
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Lindvang, Charlotte; Beck, Bolette – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2015
The focus of this paper is how we can facilitate problem based learning (PBL) more creatively. We take a closer look upon the connection between creative processes and social communication in the PBL group including how difficulties in the social interplay may hinder creativity. The paper draws on group dynamic theory, and points out the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Music, Group Dynamics
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Hartz, Barry; Bauer, William – Contributions to Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the effect of ear playing instruction on adult amateur wind instrumentalists' musical self-efficacy. Ten volunteer members of a community band in a small town in Ohio completed the "Ear Playing Profile" both prior to and following an eight-week period of instruction in playing by ear…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music, Music Education, Auditory Training
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Sussman, Abraham; Kossak, Mitchell – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Educating adults to tap into the wisdom of their inner life can happen in many contexts: (1) higher education classrooms; (2) workshop and retreat settings; and (3) psychotherapy settings. Adults can also facilitate the development of their inner life through various self-directed learning efforts, by learning from life experience, and through…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Self Concept, Metacognition, Learning Processes
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Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
A basic premise of this essay is that music education practice is a form of--a broadly conceived notion of--political practice insofar as it creates situations where specific meanings are produced, attitudes built, identities shaped, and hierarchies of musical and social values constructed. Every music education practice expresses, and at the same…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Learning Processes
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Poole, Adrian – British Journal of Music Education, 2004
The general aim of this article is to explore South Asian music and culture in an educational context. The fieldwork on which it is based mainly consists of semi-structured interviews with pupils of South Asian origin (aged 11-18) who attend a secondary school in Ilford, Essex. The learning methods of South Asian musicians are considered and a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Music, Creative Activities, Foreign Countries