Music Education: Recent submissions
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Australian jazz musician-educators: An exploration of experts' approaches to teaching jazz
Published 2009-12-11This qualitative study explores the approaches of expert jazz musicians actively involved in teaching, or jazz musician-educators, towards teaching jazz. The participants were six jazz musician-educators, whose experiences ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Music in the lives of Deaf students in an Australian school
Published 2009-01-05This qualitative case study explores the ways in which Deaf students involve themselves with music, in a variety of contexts and from multiple perspectives, including the students’ own perspective. A Sydney school offering ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
"Just sitting there learning": Case studies in NSW secondary school music and musical participation
Published 2008-12-18This study explores the relationships between school musical culture, adolescent musical preference and music teaching strategies in secondary school, in order to determine the extent to which these are factors influencing ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Why choose music? A study in parental motivation toward formal music learning and the cultural beliefs regarding its benefits.
Published 2008-12-18The purpose of this study was to examine the motivations of parents when choosing to engage their children in formal music learning, whilst exploring the cultural beliefs regarding its benefits. The study was conducted in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Rational and intuitive approaches to music composition: The impact of individual differences in thinking/learning styles on compositional processes
Published 2008-12-18This study explores the idea that there are two different types of composers, those that use a rational process of composition involving pre-planning and use of external systems and those that use an intuitive process that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours