Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the sources, methodologies, issues, and controversies surrounding music education research. Much more than a summary of findings, this handbook assesses the significance of research in the field, evaluates new developments, examines current issues, and offers direction for the future - all while linking work in one field to related work in another. Research between 1976 to 1992 is presented against the backdrop of established conceptual, historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of music.