Music Education Research

Peter Miksza is Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and an affiliate member of the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program. He serves as Editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education. Julia T. Shaw is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches courses in qualitative research, college music teaching, choral methods, and inclusive participatory music practices.Lauren Kapalka Richerme is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on philosophy, sociology, and instrumental methods.Phillip M. Hash is Professor of Music Education at Illinois State University. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education, and currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and theJournal of Band Research.Donald A. Hodges served as Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute (2003-2013) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This fresh, new book captures the remarkable diversification and advancement of music education research that has taken place over the last several years. Concise yet comprehensive, Miksza et al.'s resource should be required reading for each and every one of our graduate students.

• Preface 1. The Role of Research in Music Education2. The Typical Components of Music Education Research3. Conducting a Review of Related Literature 4. Historical Research 5. Philosophical Researchers' Aims and Processes6. Conducting Philosophical Research: Additional Considerations7. Characteristics of Qualitative Inquiry8. Common Elements of Qualitative Research Reports9. Qualitative Case Study Research10. Additional Qualitative Approaches: Ethnography, Grounded Theory, Narrative, and Phenomenology 11. Quality and Rigor in Qualitative Research12. Quantitative, Descriptive, and Correlational Research13. Experimental Research14. Designing Experimental Research15. Measurement16. Descriptive Statistics 17. Correlational Statistics 18. Determining Differences with Inferential Statistics 19. Action Research20. Scholarly Writing: Practice, Patience, and Passion21. Disseminating Research Index