Advances in Social-Psychology and Music Education Research

To honor Charles P. Schmidt on the occasion of his retirement from the music education department at Indiana University, 20 music education researchers with international reputations, weighted toward those he has cited in his own research, were asked to contribute papers on social-psychological advances in music education, social environments for music education, and advancing effective research in music education. Their topics include designing effective music studio instruction, the nonverbal measurement of responsiveness to music, developing a social environment of instruction model for music education, the diversity of dissertation topics in music education supervised by experienced advisers in the US, and a researcher's journey from student to scholar. A bibliography of Schmidt's publications is also included. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman is Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches choral and research methods, and serves as coordinator of graduate studies in music education. She has published articles on vocal jazz improvisation, creative thinking, urban music teaching, and the big band era in prominent research journals, and is the author of four books: Getting Started with Vocal Improvisation (1999), Becoming a Choral Music Teacher (2010), Music Education in Your Hands, with Michael L. Mark (2010), and Madura's Danceland: Images of America (2010). She also serves on the editorial committee of the Journal of Research in Music Education.