This literature review examines research focusing on preservice music teachers' developing
beliefs about teaching and the ways those beliefs influence their practices. Dewey's theory …

Much research addresses pre-service music teacher education, yet relatively few studies
have investigated the work of graduates as they make the transition into careers as music …

Teaching Music in American Society, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of
social and cultural themes directly related to music education, teacher training, and …

Classroom management is reported to be among the greatest difficulties for beginning music
educators. The purpose of this literature review was to examine extant research studies on …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of social intelligence on effective
music teaching. Forty teachers from “exemplary programs” and “more challenging programs” …

In this descriptive study, we examined self-reported concerns of 159 music student teachers
pre–and post–student teaching, over a period of 5 years. Resulting comments (N= 867) …

There is substantial evidence in the literature to suggest that professional isolation is a
significant problem for music teachers. This paper reports on the results of a survey …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the rehearsal characteristics of “superior”
middle and high school band directors. A total of 131 respondents from Florida, Kentucky …

This article investigates the way future teachers can be encouraged to frame their pedagogy
for music teaching through reflection. During student teachers' first experience of teaching …

The purpose of this study was to investigate (a) What specific skills and behaviors are
considered most important by public school supervising teachers in the development of …