"An Elusive Bird": Perceptions of Music Learning among Canadian and American Adults

Autor/in	Kruse, Nathan B.
Titel	"An Elusive Bird": Perceptions of Music Learning among Canadian and American Adults
Quelle	In: International Journal of Community Music, 2 (2009) 2-3, S.215-225 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1752-6299
DOI	10.1386/ijcm.2.2-3.215_1
Schlagwörter	Andragogy; Music Education; Learning Strategies; Ethnography; Musicians; Adult Learning; Foreign Countries; Music Teachers; Inferences; Music Activities; Interviews; Student Empowerment; Canada; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Andragogics; Andragogik; Musikerziehung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Ethnografie; Musiker; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Inference; Inferenz; Musikalische Aktion; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Studienberechtigung; Kanada
Abstract	Discovering the perceptions that non-professional adult musicians hold regarding their participation in community ensembles may help improve instruction as well as the ability to more fully understand the implications of lifelong music making. Andragogy, or the teaching and learning strategies associated with adult learning, provided the impetus for investigating the various methods that adults use in learning to play music. This research is based on inferences derived from ethnographic research conducted with adult members of the Cosmopolitan Music Society in Edmonton, Alberta, and the New Horizons Band in East Lansing, Michigan. Results from interview data suggested that there are dichotomous effects in music that present themselves to learners as attractive yet unattainable, and reporting several of these mystifying aspects of music learning may aid music teachers and community ensemble directors in facilitating musical empowerment among students and mollifying the often disparate and conflicted relationship between school music and community music. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10