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Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music.
While formal music education has roots going at least as far back as the Hebrews in Egypt [2] or the ancient Greeks, [3] challenges arose as music became more specialized and technically complex after the 5th century BCE in Ancient Greece and as the development of notation shifted music education from training in singing to training in music reading. [4]
Throughout the history of music education, many music educators have adopted and implemented technology in the classroom. Alice Keith and D.C. Boyle were said to be the first music educators in the United States to use the radio for teaching music. Keith wrote Listening in on the Masters, which was a broadcast music appreciation course. [44]
In A Guide to Research in Music Education, Phelps, Ferrara and Goolsby define research as the identification and isolation of a problem into a workable plan; the implementation of that plan to collect the data needed; and the synthesis, interpretation and presentation of the collected information into some format which readily can be made available to others.
Research Studies in Music Education provides a forum for the dissemination and discussion of research in music and music education. The journal aims to encourage the interrogation and development of a range of research methodologies and their application to diverse topics in music education, theory and practice.
The Journal of Research in Music Education publishes reports of original research related to music teaching and learning. The journal covers topics such as music pedagogy, history, and philosophy, and addresses vocal, instrumental, and general music at all levels, from early childhood through to adult.
The Orff Approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activity for the purpose of music creation by music students. The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music by a gentle and ...
On the other hand, these studies also suggest that music education has an effect on the young child’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. Music education in relationship to cognitive development has been acknowledged throughout history (Dewey; [ 6 ] Gardner; [ 7 ] Collins, Griess, Carither, & Castillo [ 8 ] ).