Research Problem identification --
Selecting a Research Problem --
Categories of Music-Education Research --
Expansion of Degree Programs --
Common Ways of Obtaining Research Topic Information --
Initial Considerations in the Selection of Appropriate Literature --
Formulating the Research Problem --
Obtaining Items from Other Libraries --
Photocopying Materials --
Reference Materials for Music Education --
Writing the Research Proposal and the Research Document --
Organization of the Study --
Chapter and Other Headings --
The Research Methodologies--Concepts and Techniques --
Philosophical Inquiry: Concepts and Techniques --
Purposes of Philosophical Inquiry --
Realism as a Philosophical Basis for Research --
The Philosophical Roots of Realism --
Logic as a Tool in Philosophical Inquiry --
Current Realist Philosophies of Science --
A Middle Ground Continued: The Antirealist "Social Constructionists" in Science --
Aesthetic Inquiry: Concepts and Techniques --
Four Approaches to Aesthetic Inquiry --
Part one: Research problem identification. 1. Selecting a research problem. Part two: writing the research proposal and the research document. 2. The Research process. Part three: The Research methodologies- concepts and techniques. 3. Philosophical inquiry
6. Concepts of quantifying research data
8. Experimental and quasi-experimental research
9. Historical research. Part four: Music education research: a glimpse into the future. 10. What does the future hold for music-education research?
