A volume in Advances in Music Education ResearchSeries Editors Linda K. Thompson, Lee Universityand Mark Robin Campbell, SUNY at PotsdamResearch Perspectives: Thought and Practice in Music Education calls attentionto various theoretical and methodological aspects within the expanding field of researchin music education. Perspectives presented in this volume offer readers a host of ideas and practices that range frominternational and historical to empirical and philosophical. Of special interest is a set of invited essays. Collectively, theseessays illuminate our understanding of the peer review process, the importance of artistic vision in research and education,and the notion of complementarity - a recognition of the validity of diversity of thought and practice in music educationresearch.The studies in Part 1 of Research Perspectives include early childhood musical development, an internationalcomparison of early childhood preservice teacher knowledge and skills, and a psychohistoric examination ofdevelopmentally appropriate practice. Part II is comprised of studies focused on psychometrics of motivation, andprofessional development of practicing music educators. This volume is a significantaddition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as animportant reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduatestudents who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research inthe study of music teaching and learning.
