The purpose of this content analysis is to analyze available peer-reviewed middle school general music literature to determine the ways in which middle school general music has been conceived of in extant literature in the United States. The researchers performed a content analysis of peer-reviewed empirical and practitioner articles relating to middle school general music ( N = 45), creating a coding scheme of categorical clusters that related to the Association of Middle Level Education’s position paper: This We Believe. Content coding revealed curricular content (78%) and pedagogical practice (42%) as the most common topics. Several topics were underrepresented in the literature including student opinion/voice (11%), inclusive practice (18%), adolescent development (20%), cultural awareness (18%), classroom culture (20%), and teacher preparation and development (16%). These findings may have important implications for preservice music teacher educators preparing teachers for the context of middle school general music, as well as for researchers within this domain.

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什么以及如何？或者为什么以及为谁？中学普通音乐文献的内容分析


本内容分析的目的是分析现有的同行评审的中学普通音乐文献，以确定美国现有文献中中学普通音乐的构思方式。研究人员对与中学普通音乐（N = 45）相关的同行评审的实证和实践文章进行了内容分析，创建了与中等教育协会立场文件“我们相信”相关的分类集群编码方案。内容编码显示课程内容（78%）和教学实践（42%）是最常见的主题。文献中代表性不足的几个主题包括学生意见/声音（11%）、包容性实践（18%）、青少年发展（20%）、文化意识（18%）、课堂文化（20%）以及教师准备和发展(16%)。这些发现可能对职前音乐教师教育工作者以及该领域的研究人员产生重要影响，使教师能够适应中学普通音乐的背景。