- The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Qualitative Research in Music Education: Concepts, Goals and Characteristics
- History of Qualitative Research in American Music Education
- Epistemology and Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Paradigms and Theories: Framing Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Changing the Conversation: Considering Quality in Music Education Qualitative Research
- Case Study in Music Education
- Doing Ethnography in Music Education
- Phenomenological Research in Music Education
- Narrative Inquiry and the Uses of Narrative in Music Education Research
- Practitioner Inquiry
- Mixed Methods Research in Music Education
- Collecting and Analyzing Observation of Music Teaching and Learning Data
- Conducting and Analyzing Individual Interviews
- Collecting and Analyzing Focus Group Data
- Collecting, Generating, and Analyzing Multimodal and Multimedia Data
- Music-Making As Data: Collection and Analysis
- Software to Interrogate Qualitative Data in Music Education
- Qualitative Research in Early Childhood Music Education
- Qualitative Research in General Music Education
- Instrumental Music (Winds, Brass, Percussion)
- Instrumental Music (Strings)
- Qualitative Choral Music Research
- A Critical Analysis of Qualitative Research on Learning to Teach Music in Preservice Music Teacher Education
- Inservice Music Teacher Professional Development
- Community Music Education
- Qualitative Research Examining Students with Exceptionalities in Music Education
- Intersectionalities: Exploring Qualitative Research, Music Education, and Diversity
- World Musics and Cultural Diversity in the Music Classroom and the Community
- Ethics and Qualitative Research in Music Education
- The Politics of PublicationVoices, Venues, and Ethics
- Teaching Qualitative Research Experientially and Aesthetically
- Future Possibilities for Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Qualitative research is an umbrella term for a wide array of genres. Recognizing the differences in intellectual traditions, purposes, units of analysis, and foci of qualitative research, this chapter examines the shared assumptions within qualitative inquiry, its broad goals, key concepts, general characteristics, and methods. The epistemological, methodological, and ethical underpinnings of qualitative research are discussed through current research examples in music education. Central to the discussion is reflexive, recursive, responsive, and collaborative aspects of qualitative research, as well as its emergent research design and interpretive process. Related issues to be discussed are the criteria of process and product, including trustworthiness and validity of interpretation, the situated nature of the researcher, subjectivity, the role of senses, and empathetic, case-specific understanding. We also discuss how the processes and characteristics of music and sound can inform the ways we conduct and think of qualitative research.
Keywords: case study, ethnography, phenomenology, emergent research design, empathy, senses in fieldwork, polyphonic texts, ethics
Koji Matsunobu - Honorary Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia
Liora Bresler has a B.A. in piano performance and philosophy and M.A. in musicology from Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. Bresler is a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching focus on Arts and Aesthetic Education, Qualitative Research Methodology, and Educational/Artistic/Intellectual Entrepreneurship. Her research and teaching focus on Arts and Aesthetic Education, Qualitative Research Methodology, and Educational/Artistic/Intellectual Entrepreneurship. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Education and the Arts. Bresler has published 100+ papers, book chapters and books on the arts in education, including the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007), and Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds (2004). Her work has been translated to German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese. She has given keynote speeches and presented invited talks, seminars and short courses in thirty-some countries and forty-some universities in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Qualitative Research in Music Education: Concepts, Goals and Characteristics
- History of Qualitative Research in American Music Education
- Epistemology and Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Paradigms and Theories: Framing Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Changing the Conversation: Considering Quality in Music Education Qualitative Research
- Case Study in Music Education
- Doing Ethnography in Music Education
- Phenomenological Research in Music Education
- Narrative Inquiry and the Uses of Narrative in Music Education Research
- Practitioner Inquiry
- Mixed Methods Research in Music Education
- Collecting and Analyzing Observation of Music Teaching and Learning Data
- Conducting and Analyzing Individual Interviews
- Collecting and Analyzing Focus Group Data
- Collecting, Generating, and Analyzing Multimodal and Multimedia Data
- Music-Making As Data: Collection and Analysis
- Software to Interrogate Qualitative Data in Music Education
- Qualitative Research in Early Childhood Music Education
- Qualitative Research in General Music Education
- Instrumental Music (Winds, Brass, Percussion)
- Instrumental Music (Strings)
- Qualitative Choral Music Research
- A Critical Analysis of Qualitative Research on Learning to Teach Music in Preservice Music Teacher Education
- Inservice Music Teacher Professional Development
- Community Music Education
- Qualitative Research Examining Students with Exceptionalities in Music Education
- Intersectionalities: Exploring Qualitative Research, Music Education, and Diversity
- World Musics and Cultural Diversity in the Music Classroom and the Community
- Ethics and Qualitative Research in Music Education
- The Politics of PublicationVoices, Venues, and Ethics
- Teaching Qualitative Research Experientially and Aesthetically
- Future Possibilities for Qualitative Research in Music Education
- Index