MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning

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1 How Learning Theories Shape Our Understanding of Music Learners. Susan A. O'Neill and Yaroslav Senyshyn.
2 Construction of Music Learning. Peter R. Webster.
3 Roles of Direct Instruction, Critical Thinking, and Transfer in the Design of Curriculum for Music Learning. Richard Colwell.
4 Musical Development: Revisiting a Generic Theory. Keith Swanwick.
5 Biological and Environmental Factors in Music Cognition and Learning. Steven M. Demorest.
6 Motivation and Achievement. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Martin L. Maehr, and Paul R. Pintrich.
7 Motivation to Learn Music: A Discussion of Some Key Elements. Bret P. Smith.
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The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 1: Strategies brings together the best and most current research on methods for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession's empirical and conceptual knowledge of how students gain competence in music at various ages and in different contexts. The collection of chapters, written by the foremost figures active in the field, takes a broad theoretical perspective on current, critical areas of research, including music development, music listening and reading, motivation and self-regulated learning in music, music perception, and movement. The book's companion volume, Applications, builds an extensive and solid position of practice upon the frameworks and research presented here. Throughout both volumes in this essential set, focus is placed on the musical knowledge and musical skills needed to perform, create, understand, reflect on, enjoy, value, and respond to music. A key point of emphasis rests on the relationship between music learning and finding meaning in music, and as music technology plays an increasingly important role in learning today, chapters move beyond exclusively formal classroom instruction into other forms of systematic learning and informal instruction. Either individually or paired with its companion Volume 2: Applications, this indispensable overview of this growing area of inquiry will appeal to students and scholars in Music Education, as well as front-line music educators in the classroom.

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The essays offer valuable insights from researchers and practitioners on how people learn music and, thus, on how music is or should be taught. This work will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners of music education, who continually assess music teaching and strive to make it better...Recommended

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