Music Teachers' Perceptions of General Music as a Required Middle Level Course

Autor/in	Cronenberg, Stephanie
Titel	Music Teachers' Perceptions of General Music as a Required Middle Level Course
Quelle	In: RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 43 (2020) 9, (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cronenberg, Stephanie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-4476
DOI	10.1080/19404476.2020.1818020
Schlagwörter	Music Teachers; Music Education; Music Activities; Teacher Attitudes; Required Courses; Elective Courses; Middle School Students; Early Adolescents; Scheduling; Budgeting; Role of Education; Holistic Approach; Middle School Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Musikerziehung; Musikalische Aktion; Lehrerverhalten; Pflichtkurs; Elective course; Wahlkurs; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Disposition; Bildungsauftrag; Holistischer Ansatz; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	In most middle level schools, the curriculum includes a range of elective courses, often called exploratory courses. General music is one of the many exploratory courses commonly offered in middle level schools across the United States. Educators who teach exploratory courses face numerous challenges related to enrollment, scheduling, budget, curricular content, and more. Exploratory courses are designed to enable middle level students to explore an area of interest or an unfamiliar subject, and the question of whether they are required is often a school- or district-level decision. Using an emergent, qualitative approach to content analysis, I investigated the perceptions of 1,316 middle school music teacher respondents regarding whether general music should be required for all middle grades students. While the music educator respondents were divided on this issue, their reasons revealed interesting perspectives on the purpose of music education and the functioning of middle level schools. Implications of this study include suggestions for school-level discussions about scheduling, budget, and the purposes of general music within the interdisciplinary middle level curriculum. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01