2nd Edition
Inquiry in Music Education Concepts and Methods for the Beginning Researcher
Introduction. Learning about the Book and Getting Involved / Part I. Entering the World of Questioning / Chapter 1. The Spiral and Modes of Inquiry: Options, Choices, and Initial Decisions / Chapter 2. Finding and Mapping Sources of Information / Chapter 3. Toward a Rationale and Research Plan: Writing a Contract with Yourself / Part II. Methods in Modes of Inquiry / Chapter 4. Ways of Thinking and their Consequences / Chapter 5. Approaches in the Philosophical Mode of Inquiry / Chapter 6. Historical Inquiry: Getting Inside the Process (Marie McCarthy) / Chapter 7. Purposes and Questions in Qualitative Research / Chapter 8. Selected Procedures for Gathering, Analyzing, and Reflecting on Qualitative Data / Chapter 9. Quantitative Research in Music Education: Letting Numbers Speak / Chapter 10. Understanding Descriptive Statistics (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 11. Interpreting Correlations (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 12. Designing Ex Post Facto and Experimental Studies (Debbie Rohwer) / Chapter 13. Exploring Mixed Methods, Practitioner, and Arts-Based Inquiry / Chapter 14. Tools for Data Gathering: Basics of Content and Construction / Chapter 15. "So What?" Interpreting and Sharing your Findings / Recapitulation. Placing Your Research Experience in the Bigger Picture / Appendix A: Working out a Course or Project Timeline / Appendix B: Selected "’isms" as found by Rainbow & Froehlich, 1987 / Appendix C: John Curwen Observes Sarah Glover Teaching Music / Appendix D: Sample Template for Organizing Coded Qualitative Data and Files / Appendix E: Choices in Statistical Tests for Parametric and Non-parametric Data
Biography
Carol Frierson-Campbell is Professor at William Paterson University.
Hildegard C. Froehlich is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas.
