- 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
This chapter takes an expanded view of practitioner inquiry to include multiple traditions being conducted by P-12 teachers, in-service teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. Discussion includes the historical roots and defining qualities of four traditions of practitioner inquiry: action research, teacher research, self-study, and communities of practice. Selected studies in music education are examined to provide a view of the kinds of focusing questions prompting the many versions and variants of practitioner inquiry, as well as to illustrate the dialogic relationship of inquiry and practice. Critiques of practitioner inquiry and current obstacles facing researching teachers in music education are reviewed for the purpose of forwarding the conversation about the promises and pitfalls of practitioner inquiry. Suggestions for new voices, networks, and venues are made in order to move the tradition of practitioner inquiry into fuller view within qualitative research in music education.
Keywords: practitioner inquiry, teacher research, action research, self-study, community, researching teachers, dialogic
Janet Robbins, Professor of Music, West Virginia University
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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
