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Alternative Seating Practices: Pedagogy of the Back of the Orchestra
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Yi, Tammy S. – Music Education Research, 2023
This three-year study aimed to investigate students' experiences with alternative seating practices (ASP) in a public-school string orchestra program. Whereas education scholarship has long demonstrated that democratic classroom seating arrangements play a crucial role in the learning process, typical orchestra classrooms maintain a hierarchical…
Descriptors: Space Utilization, Musicians, Music Activities, Student Experience
High School Concert Band Directors' Self-Efficacy for Classroom Management
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Bradley J. Regier – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between high school concert band directors' self-efficacy for classroom management, efficacious sources, and classroom management behaviors. Participants (N = 271) completed the Band Director Self-Efficacy for Classroom Management scale and responded to items about their demographic and school…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Music Education, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes
Describing Engagement in the Collegiate Concert Band Rehearsal
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Ryan D. Shaw; David Hedgecoth; Andrew Bohn; Emily Moler Huddleston; Nathan Irby; Charles Oldenkamp; Gentry Ragsdale; Lorenzo L. Sánchez-Gatt; Austin D. Thomas – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2025
The purpose of this multiple case study was to investigate engagement in the collegiate concert band setting. Research questions were: (1) How do collegiate band students describe their engagement in large ensemble rehearsals? (2) How do collegiate band directors describe engagement in large ensemble rehearsals? and (3) What does rehearsal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Music Activities, Musicians, Drills (Practice)
Preservice Music Teachers' Attitudes toward Popular Music in the Music Classroom
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Springer, D. Gregory; Gooding, Lori F. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice music educators' attitudes toward popular music in the music classroom. On a survey instrument designed by the investigators, participants ("N" = 82) rated (a) the effectiveness of popular music in addressing the National Standards for Music Education, (b) the appropriateness of popular…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Music
Conservatoire Students' Experiences and Perceptions of Instrument-Specific Master Classes
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Long, Marion; Creech, Andrea; Gaunt, Helena; Hallam, Susan – Music Education Research, 2014
Historically, in the professional training of musicians, the master-apprentice model has played a central role in instilling the methods and values of the discipline, contributing to the rigorous formation of talent. Expert professional musicians advocate that certain thinking skills can be modelled through the master-apprentice model, yet its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Musicians
Exclusion, Engagement and Identity Construction in a Socioeconomically Diverse Middle School Wind Band Classroom
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Hoffman, Adria Rachel – Music Education Research, 2012
The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the wind band classroom as a social context and examine its influence on middle-school students' identity constructions. The integration of sociologically based identity theory and social identity theory from social psychology suggested by Deaux and Martin as well as Stets and Burke proved…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Musicians, Middle School Students, Grade 6