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Music Appreciation: To What End?

Description: This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. This paper discusses music appreciation. The author looks at who is qualified to teach a Music Appreciation course, what the true purpose of such a course is in the general curriculum, and what our responsibility in musically educating our citizens is.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Spring, Staci
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Collaboration, Learning, and Connect

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes the projects completed by music students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil in a programme exploring how participatory arts projects can be led using highly student centered, creative approaches.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Feichas, Heloisa & Wells, Robert
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Transformation and Liberation in 21st Century Music Education (?)

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explores concepts of transformation and liberation from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed as they might be applied to contemporary music education policy and practice.
Date: July 2009
Creator: O'Flynn, John
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explains Basil Bernstein's theories of linguistic codes and pedagogic device, and is based on the premise that both the U.K. and the U.S. experience a cultural inversion.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Wright, Ruth & Froehlich, Hildegard
Partner: UNT College of Music
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‘Mine’ and ‘other’: Cultural policy in the field of Music Education

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines teaching approaches to multiculturalism and music education to propose a model of intervention fro dealing with learning and social difficulties.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Argyriou, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Music
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A Qualitative Study on Involving Youth and Extra-Curricular Music Activities

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes a longitudinal study investigating the reasons, benefits, and impact on why twelve urban public school students volunteered in extra-curricular music activities.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Nam-Hai Leong, Tony
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Lessons from Extreme metal musicians: a perspective from Singapore

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper revisits epistemological foundations of in/formal learning through music by making observations about songs and lessons learnt when studying an approach to music learning the practice of Extreme metal music.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Dairianathan, Eugene
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Lost in transformation: Mezirow, immigrants, and identity

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper uses Mezirow's transformative learning theory to discuss the delicate balancing act of transforming while avoiding the feeling of rootlessness.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Qi, Nan
Partner: UNT College of Music
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Relationships among Parental Influences, Selected Demographic Factors, Adolescent Self-Concept as a Future Music Educator and the Decision to Major in Music Education

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigate relationships among parental influences, academic achievement, demographic factors, and adolescent self-concept, as they relate to students' self-concept as a future music educator.
Date: July 2009
Creator: McClellan, Edward R.
Partner: UNT College of Music
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A Dichotomy of Experience in Irish traditional music – Classroom V Community

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigates the extent to which a holistic understanding and appreciation or Irish traditional music is being realized by post-primary teachers and students in Ireland.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Johnston, Thomas
Partner: UNT College of Music
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What do we mean by ‘the sociology of music education’?

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This keynote paper considers what is meant by the sub-discipline the sociology of music condition.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Green, Lucy
Partner: UNT College of Music
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