Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices (open access)

Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cage’s short visit to the classroom: Experimental music in music education – A sociological view on a radical move (open access)

Cage’s short visit to the classroom: Experimental music in music education – A sociological view on a radical move

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines some aspects of the cultural, ideological and aesthetic underpinnings of a music education movement whose prime feature has been the use of experimental music and music-making practices within classrooms.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaboration, Learning, and Connect (open access)

Collaboration, Learning, and Connect

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Classroom, School and Community: an exploration of music education at primary level in Ireland (open access)

Connecting Classroom, School and Community: an exploration of music education at primary level in Ireland

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explores the provision of music education at primary level in Ireland, drawing on ethnographic research carried out in a number of primary schools.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Finnerty, Michelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Dichotomy of Experience in Irish traditional music – Classroom V Community (open access)

A Dichotomy of Experience in Irish traditional music – Classroom V Community

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
‘I drum, therefore I am’? Thoughts on an integrated model of identity and learning: preliminary findings from on-going research by a doctoral student (open access)

‘I drum, therefore I am’? Thoughts on an integrated model of identity and learning: preliminary findings from on-going research by a doctoral student

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper presents ongoing research to examine drummers' identities and learning processes.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Smith, Gareth Dylan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons from Extreme metal musicians: a perspective from Singapore (open access)

Lessons from Extreme metal musicians: a perspective from Singapore

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lost in transformation: Mezirow, immigrants, and identity (open access)

Lost in transformation: Mezirow, immigrants, and identity

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
‘Mine’ and ‘other’: Cultural policy in the field of Music Education (open access)

‘Mine’ and ‘other’: Cultural policy in the field of Music Education

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music Education and Narratives of Social Cohesion: From National Melting Pot to Global Community (open access)

Music Education and Narratives of Social Cohesion: From National Melting Pot to Global Community

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This keynote paper provides perspectives on social cohesion and education, illustrating how ideologies were used to promote socially cohesive societies.
Date: July 2009
Creator: McCarthy, Marie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music Ensembles in U. S. Schools: Enabling Additives and Alternatives (open access)

Music Ensembles in U. S. Schools: Enabling Additives and Alternatives

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper reports results from ongoing research on alternative ensembles in school music programs.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Colley, Bernadette D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oh Say, You Can’t Sing: The ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ and the National Anthem Project in Wartime America (open access)

Oh Say, You Can’t Sing: The ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ and the National Anthem Project in Wartime America

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines the place of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in U.S. musical culture.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Russell, Melinda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pathways to Performance: An Exploration of Musical Growth in the Sociocultural Environment of East Galway (open access)

Pathways to Performance: An Exploration of Musical Growth in the Sociocultural Environment of East Galway

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explores the musical reputation of a small area in the West or Ireland, East County Galway.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Berrill, Mairéad
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Process of Change in the Teaching and Learning of Traditional Music Performance in Ennis, Co. Clare 1961-1980 (open access)

A Process of Change in the Teaching and Learning of Traditional Music Performance in Ennis, Co. Clare 1961-1980

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper addresses the emergence of the formalisation of the transmission of traditional music through educational means.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Cotter, Geraldine
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Qualitative Study on Involving Youth and Extra-Curricular Music Activities (open access)

A Qualitative Study on Involving Youth and Extra-Curricular Music Activities

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relations between identity and educational quality within preservice music teacher training (open access)

Relations between identity and educational quality within preservice music teacher training

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper presents observations of pre-service music teacher training as organized in two parts, with one focused on instrumental teaching and the other focused on classroom music teaching.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Johansen, Geir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationships among Parental Influences, Selected Demographic Factors, Adolescent Self-Concept as a Future Music Educator and the Decision to Major in Music Education (open access)

Relationships among Parental Influences, Selected Demographic Factors, Adolescent Self-Concept as a Future Music Educator and the Decision to Major in Music Education

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Questions, Musical Answers: Local Government Music Policy and Practice (open access)

Social Questions, Musical Answers: Local Government Music Policy and Practice

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines the integration of the arts into local government from a variety of perspectives.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Kenny, Ailbhe
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Socialization of Members of a String Quartet towards their Roles as Musicians (open access)

The Socialization of Members of a String Quartet towards their Roles as Musicians

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigates the role of others in the socialization process of members of an amateur string quartet.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Huff Cox, Patricia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sociocultural perspectives on multicultural music education: reappraising the content of music curricula in Ireland (open access)

Sociocultural perspectives on multicultural music education: reappraising the content of music curricula in Ireland

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper discusses sociocultural perspectives on multicultural music education.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Moore, Gwen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transformation and Liberation in 21st Century Music Education (?) (open access)

Transformation and Liberation in 21st Century Music Education (?)

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turntablism: A Vehicle for Connecting Community and School Music Learning (open access)

Turntablism: A Vehicle for Connecting Community and School Music Learning

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines 'turntablism' as a relatively new and unexplored area for teaching and learning music in schools.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Snell, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
What do we mean by ‘the sociology of music education’? (open access)

What do we mean by ‘the sociology of music education’?

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
WPA/Federal Music Project in the United States: Music Education and Music Teacher Education 1935-1943 (open access)

WPA/Federal Music Project in the United States: Music Education and Music Teacher Education 1935-1943

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper focuses on the teacher education components of the Works Project Administration Federal Music Project.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Tuohey, Terese
System: The UNT Digital Library