Contemporary Research in Music Learning Across the Lifespan

Introduction Jennifer A. Bugos I. Theoretical Perspectives in Music Learning Across the Lifespan 1. Development in Music Education: A Lifelong Learning Perspective Jennifer A. Bugos 2. Psychosocial Theory and the Lifespan of a Successful Music Teacher Steven N. Kelly 3. The Use of Activity Theory as an Analytical Tool for the Music Learning Processes Martin Faulty and Victoria Kinsella 4. The Role of Self-Efficacy on Learning in Music Education Success Rebecca Kasang 5. Redefining Music Literacy: Common Core to Common Score Steve Oare, Elaine Bernstorf, and Selim Giray 6. Music Teachers in Botswana as Lifelong Learners through Action Research Sheelagh Chadwick 7. Brief Focused Inquiry (BFI): A Strategy for Small-Scale Research Studies Across the Lifespan Bernie W. Andrews II. Music Instruction in Early Childhood and the Formative Years 8. Infants' Home Soundscape: A Day in the Life of a Family Eugenia Costa-Giomi and Xiaoning Sun 9. A Two-Year Study on Young Children's Interactivity with an iPad App: The Carnival of the Animals (COA) Catherine Ming Tu 10. Music Performance Anxiety in Elementary Music: A Literature Review Johnathan Kladder 11. Relationship between Singing, Cultural Understanding and Racial Attitude: A Cross-Cultural Study in Brazil, Canada, China and Kenya Lily Chen-Hafteck, Alda Oliveira, Zuraida Bastiao, Angelita Brook, Elizabeth Andango, Arla Good, Yue Xiao 12. Examining Correlations when Using Amabile's Consensual Assessment Technique to Support Validity of Teachers as Expert Judges Patrick K. Cooper III. Music Learning in Adolescence to Young Adulthood 13. Aural Skills Assessment in Young Adult Musicians: Results of a Harmony and Word N-Back Task Jennifer A. Bugos 14. Motor-Aural Synchronization in Adolescent Music Students Corin T. Overland 15. Self-Regulated Practice Behaviours in Adolescent Musicians Kim Mieder 16. Relationships of Background Experience and Music Teaching Style with Conducting Functions: Theoretical and Perceptual Implications Alan J. Gumm IV. Middle Age and Older Adult Musical Engagement 17. College and Community Choir Member Views of an Intergenerational Ensemble Jill Wilson 18. Ethnography of a Southern Roots Music Community: Field, Swamp and Internet Susan Mills 19. Exploring Connections between the Music Classroom and Lifelong Music Engagement Will Dabback 20. Promoting Well-being in Older Citizens through Musical Engagement: Implications for Teaching Susan Hallam and Andrea Creech