The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning

• Convenient collection of all current research on music teaching and learning
• Contributors include leading scholars and researchers in the fields of music education and music cognition

Readership: Scholars and students of music education.

Edited by Richard Colwell, Professor of Music Education, Emeritus at Boston University; and Adjunct Professor of Music Education, University of Michigan, and Edited by Carol Richardson

Section One: Issues and Research
1: Samuel Hope: Policy Frameworks, Research and K-12 Schooling
2: John Malmann: MENC: A Case in Point
3: Ralph A. Smith: Recent Trends and Issue in Policy-making
4: John W. Richmond: Law Research and Music Education
Section Two: Educational Context and the CurriculumIan Westbury: Introduction: Toward an understanding of the 'Aims of Music Education'
1: Betty Hanley and Janet Montgomery: Contemporary Curriculum Practices and Their Theoretical Bases
2: Ian Westbury: Theory, Research, and the Improvement of Music Education
3: Bruce Torff: A Comparative Review of Human Ability Theory: Context, Structure, and Development
4: Betty Ann Younker: Critical Thinking
5: Christopher D. Assara: Improvisation
6: Edward Sarath: Improvisation and Curriculum Reform
7: Don D. Coffman: Adult Education
8: Joyce Jordan-DeCarbo and Jo Ann Nelson: Music and Early Childhood Education
9: Richard Kennell: Systematic Research in Studio Instruction in Music
10: Estelle R. Jorgensen: Philosophical Issues in Curriculum
11: Wayne Bowman: Educating Musically
12: Fred J. Rees: Distance Learning and Collaboration in Music Education
Section Three: Musical Development and Learning
Rosamund Shuter: Introduction: Issues in Perception, Cognition, and Development
1: Laurie Taetle, Robert Cutietta, and Vincent Bates: Learning Theories as Roots of Current Musical Practice and Research
2: Barak Rosenshine, hildegard Froelich, and Inshad Fakhouri: Systematic Instruction
3: Patricia E. Sink: Behavioural Research on Direct Music Instruction
4: Gary E. McPherson and Barry J. Zimmerman: Self-Regulation of Musical Learning: A Social Cognitive Perspective
5: Martin L. Maehr, Paul R. Pintrich, and Elizabeth A. Linnenbrink: Motivation and Achievement
6: Keith Swanwick and Maria Runfola: Developmental Characteristics of Music Learners
7: Maud Hickey: Creative Research in Music, Visual Arts, Theater, and Dance
8: Peter R. Webster: Computer-based Technology and Music Teaching and Learning
Section Four: Musical Cognition
1: Wilfried Gruhn and Frances Rauscher: The Neurobiology of Music Cognition and Learning
2: William Forde Thompson and E. Glenn Schellenberg: Cognitive Constraints on Music Listening
3: Heiner Gembris: The Development of Musical Abilities
4: Reinhard Kopiez: Making Music and Making Sense of Music: Expressive Performance and Communication
5: Andreas C. Lehmann and Jane W. Davidson: Taking an Acquired Skills Perspective on Music Performance
Section Five: Social and Cultural Contexts
1: Stephen J. Paul and Jeanne H. Ballantine: The Sociology of Education and Connections to Music Education Research
2: Renate Muller: Sociology of Music
3: Social Psychology and Music Education
4: Barbara Reeder Lundquist: Music, Culture, Curriculum and Instruction
5: Roberta Lamb, Sondra Wieland-Howe, Lori-Anne Doloff: Feminism, Feminist Research and Gender Research in Music Education
6: Paul G. Woodford: The Social Construction of Music Teacher Identity in Undergraduate Music Education Majors
7: Gordon Cox: Transforming Research in Music Education History
8: C. K. Szego: Music Transmission and Learning: A Conspectus of Ethnographic Research in Ethnomusicology and Music Education
9: Kari Veblen and Bengt Olsson: Community Music: Toward an International Overview
Section Six: Teacher Education
James Raths: Introduction: Fuzzy Teacher Education
1: Dennis Thiessena dn Janet Barrett: Reform-minded Music Teachers: A More Comprehensive Image of Teaching for Music Teacher Education
2: Teaching as a Profession: Two Variations on a Theme
Randall Pembrook and Cheryl Craig:
3: Glenn E. Niermann, Ken Zeichner, and Nikola Hobbel: Changing Concepts of Teacher Education
4: Susan Wilcox and Rena Upitis: Strengthening the Teaching of Music Educators in Higher Education
5: Mary Leglar and Michelle Collay: Research by Teachers on Teacher Education
6: Roger Ridout and Allan Feldman: Research in Music Student Teaching
7: Mary Hookey: Professional Development
Section Seven: Music Education Connections
Dick Deasy: Introduction: The Growing Impact of Partnerships: A Reason for Research
1: David E. Meyers and Arthur C. Brooks: Policy Issues Connecting Music Education and Arts Education
2: Halk Abeles, Rob Horowitz, Judy Burton and Mary Hafeli: The Evaluation of Arts Partnerships and Learning Through the Arts
3: Constance Bumgarner Gee: The 'Use and Abuse' of Arts Advocacy and its Consequences for Music Education
4: Lynn Powell Galbraith: Research in Visual Arts Education: Implications for Music Education
5: A Review of Research in Theater, Dance, and Other Performing Arts Education: Implications for Music
Section Eight: Neuroscience, Medicine, and Music
1: John Flohr and Donald Hodges: Music and Neuroscience
2: Alice G. Brandfonbrener and Richard J. Lederman: Performing arts Medicine
3: Kris Chesky, George Kondraske,: Musicians' Health
Miriam Henoch, and John Hipple
Section Nine: Instrumental Outcomes
1: Michael Mark: Nonmusical Outcomes of Music Education: Historical Considerations
2: Merryl Goldberg and Carol Scott-Kassner: Teaching Other Subjects Through Music
3: Liora Bresler: Research: A Foundation for Arts Education Advocacy
Section Ten: Research Design, Criticism, and Assessment in Music Education
1: David Elliot: Philosophical Perspectives on Research
2: Jack Heller and Edward O'Connor: Maintaining Quality in Research and Reporting
3: Trends in Data Acquisition and Knowledge Development
Lee R. Bartel and Rudolf E. Radocy:
4: Richard Colwell: Assessment's Potential in Music Education
5: David J. Flinders and Carol Richardson: Contemporary Issues in Qualitative Research and Music Education