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Inquiry-based learning in music: Indicators and relationships between key pedagogical practices and the quality of critical thinking

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https://hdl.handle.net/10497/23971
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Costes-Onishi, P., & Kwek, D. (2023). Inquiry-based learning in music: Indicators and relationships between key pedagogical practices and the quality of critical thinking. Research Studies in Music Education, 45(2), 362-378. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103x211057457
Author
Costes-Onishi, Pamela Grace 
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Kwek, Dennis Beng Kiat 
Abstract
Many scholars have advocated the addition of more intellectual activities in music classrooms, the most prominent being critical thinking through inquiry. Inquiry-based learning (IBL) has been recognized as necessary for teaching and learning that increases critical thinking skills and dispositions. This study describes an extensive list of indicators that could ascertain the pedagogical practices and intellectual quality of knowledge work indicating the strength of inquiry in music classrooms. It shows the relationships between these indicators that help us understand the enablers and hindrances to critical thinking as an aspect of IBL in music. The article focuses on the Descriptive Statistics results of 114 classroom observations for music at the Primary and Secondary levels, using coding schemes developed in the Singapore Core3-PP project from 2018 to 2020. The results confirm the gap identified in the literature that music classes lack significant inquiry work that would nurture critical thinking skills and dispositions. The findings provide pedagogical insights that can (a) inform educators on how to examine and grow their IBL practice in music lessons; (b) move music education’s objective toward a balanced development of music skills and knowledge construction; (c) develop critical musicality and independent musicianship among students; and (d) provide concrete measures for researchers to design interventions in the areas of teacher learning in IBL.
Keywords
  • Critical musicality

  • Critical thinking

  • Higher order thinking...

  • Inquiry-based learnin...

  • Music inquiry

Date Issued
2023
Publisher
Sage
Journal
Research Studies in Music Education
DOI
10.1177/1321103x211057457
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