What Are Music Educators Doing and How Well Are We Doing It?

Music Educators Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-23

  Williams, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 60949604422     PISSN: 00274321     EISSN: 19450087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002743210709400105     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Paul D. Lehrman, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Mix (June 2005), 148.
2. Bennett Reimer, "Music Education for Cultural Empowerment" (paper presented at the International Music Education Policy Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, April 17, 2004). See also www.menc.org/connect/conf/imeps/symposium_Reimer.html.
3. Lee Bartel, Questioning the Music Education Paradigm, vol. 2 of Research to Practice, a Biennial Series (Toronto: Canadian Music Educators Association, 2005).
4. Norma J. Kirkland, "South Carolina Schools and Goals 2000: National Standards in Music" (PhD diss., University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1996).
5. Evelyn K. Orman, "Comparison of the National Standards for Music Education and Elementary Music Specialists' Use of Class Time," Journal of Research in Music Education 50, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 155-64.
6. Al D. Holcomb, "An Investigation of the Concurrent Validity of the Discipline-Based Professional Teaching Standards of Teachers of Music in Connecticut" (PhD diss., University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, 2003).
7. Connecticut State Department of Education, "Discipline-Based Professional Teaching Standards for Teachers of Music," Common Core of Teaching (1999), http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2618&q=320862.
8. Harold Abeles and Rob Horowitz, "The School Music Curriculum: The National Standards Reflected in Practice" (paper presented at the MENC Eastern Division Conference, New York, NY, February 26-28, 1999).
9. Susan Byo, "Classroom Teachers' and Music Specialists' Perceived Ability to Implement the National Standards for Music Education," Journal of Research in Music Education 47, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 111-23.
10. Jere L. Forsythe, "Elementary Student Attending Behavior as a Function of Classroom Activities," Journal of Research in Music Education 25, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 228-39; Michael J. Wagner and Eileen P. Strul, "Comparisons of Beginning Versus Experienced Elementary Music Educators in the Use of Teaching Time," Journal of Research in Music Education 27, no. 2 (Summer 1979): 113-25; Randall S. Moore, "Comparative Use of Teaching Time by American and British Elementary Music Specialists," Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 66-67 (1981): 62-68; Randall S. Moore, "Effects of Age, Sex, and Activity on Children's Attentiveness in Elementary School Music Classes," in Applications of Research in Music Behavior, ed. Clifford K. Madsen and Carol A. Prickett, 26-31 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987).
11. For music education advocacy topics on the MENC Web site, see www.menc.org/information/advocacy/main.html.
12. Bennett Reimer, A Philosophy of Music Education, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 182.
13. Charles R. Hoffer, "Enrollment Trends in Secondary School Music Courses," Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 63 (Summer 1980): 20-24; W Vance Grant, "Offerings and Enrollments in Public High Schools," American Education 21, no. 1 (1985): 28; Perry A. Castelli, "Attitudes of Vocal Music Educators and Public Secondary School Students on Selected Factors Which Influence a Decline in Male Enrollment Occurring between Elementary and Secondary Public School Vocal Music Programs" (PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1986); National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1988), www.nces.gov/surveys/nels88; Linda A. Hartley, "Influence of Starting Grade and School Organization on Enrollment and Retention in Beginning Instrumental Music," Journal of Research in Music Education 44, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 304-18; Chris Moran, "Low Note Sounds for Music Education," The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 19, 2004, www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041119/news_7ml9music.html (accessed September 4, 2006).
14. National Center for Education Statistics, "Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State" (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 2002), http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/snfreport/table-IO.asp (accessed September 4, 2006).
15. For a look at the profession as one interested in maintaining the current state of affairs, see Eric Shieh and Colleen Conway's chapter, "An Examination of Beginning Music Teacher Mentor and Induction Practices," in Questioning the Music Education Paradigm, ed. Lee Bartel (Toronto: Canadian Music Educators Association, 2005), 162-78.
16. Reimer, "Cultural Empowerment." 17. Edwin C. Kruth, "Student Drop-out in Instrumental Music in the Secondary Schools of Oakland, California" (PhD diss., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1964); Barbara J. Solly, "A Study of Attrition from the Instrumental Music Program in Moving between Grade Levels in Cherry Hill, New Jersey" (PhD diss., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1986).
17. Hal A. Bergan, "A Study of Drop-outs in Instrumental Music in Five Selected Schools in Michigan" (PhD diss., Michigan State University, Lansing, 1957); George J. Casey, "A Study of Instrumental Music Drop-outs of Moline (Illinois) Schools" (PhD diss., Colorado State College, Fort Collins, 1964); Kruth, "Student Drop-out in Oakland, California"; Anthony J. Martignetti, "Causes of Elementary Instrumental Music Drop-outs," Journal of Research in Music Education 13, no. 3 (Fall 1965): 177-83; Larry D. Rawlins, "A Study of the Reasons for Students Dropping Out of the Instrumental Music Program of the Lincoln, Nebraska, Public Schools" (PhD diss., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1979); Solly, "Attrition in Cherry Hill, New Jersey"; Hartley, "Beginning Instrumental Music."
18. For more on music participation from this time, see Michael L. Mark and Charles L. Gary, A History of American Music Education, 2nd ed. (Reston, VA: Menc, 1999), especially Chapter 8, "The Beginnings of Music in American Schools," 137-61.■