Tables of contents

Special issue: research methodologies and methods in the field of music education

Telling half the story: making explicit the significance of methods and methodologies in music education research

Pamela Burnard

143

Mapping the possibilities of qualitative research in music education: a primer

Kathryn Roulston

153

The effects of instruction on self-assessed research knowledge, ability and interest among Greek music educators

Lelouda Stamou, Jere T Humphreys, Charles P Schmidt

175

Exploring music instrument teaching and learning environments: video analysis as a means of elucidating process and learning outcomes

Ryan Daniel

191

Personal experiences and professional strategies

Eva Georgii-Hemming

217

Openness and awareness – roles and demands of music teachers

Cecilia Ferm

237

Working in music: the pianist

Janet Mills

251

Assessing the positive influence of music activities in community development programs

Steve Dillon

267

’Music appreciation’ as praxis

Thomas A Regelski

281

Changing an adult learning environment as viewed from a social learning perspective

Jose L da Costa

Mentoring: the journey of new eyes

Sandra Sytsma

Teachers as designers in computer-supported communities of practice

Elizabeth Hartnell-Young

Who leads? A contextualized perspective on organizational leadership and learning

Vernon Storey

Underrepresentation of women in public primary school administration: the experience of Greece

Andreas Kyriakoussis, Anna Saiti

School system evaluation: a generative approach

Pam Adams, David Townsend

Promoting multicultural awareness through electronic communication

Hui-Ju Huang

Reclaiming space and dialogue in adult education

Colleen Kawalilak

The relevance of rhetoric to the study of power in communication and communicative adequacy

Eyvind Elstad

Making it work: identifying the challenges of collaborative international research

Tim Goddard, Neil Cranston, Jennie Billot

It’s about time: productive pedagogies and professional learning communities

Sandra Sytsma

Spirituality and the intellectual development of college students: the new leadership challenge in higher education

Stephen R White

A student's modeling of a business problem: a case representative of students' struggle to see meaning in mathematics

Ana LB Dias

105

Excel exercises for first-year engineering students

Geri Wagner

109

Teaching mathematics to a student who is blind

Richard Spindler

120

Calculus of functions and their inverses: a unified approach

Srilal N Krishnan

127

Measuring maths study support

Chetna Patel, John Little

131

Maths circus: boomerangs

Steve Humble, Derel Briarley, Christina Mappouridou, Gavin Duncan, David Turner, Jodi Handley

139

How interesting is a cricket match?

P Glaister

149 

Cognitive apprenticeship and teachers’ professional development

Jon Nichol, Rosie Turner-Bisset

149

Indonesian lesson study in practice: case study of Indonesian mathematics and science teacher education project

Eisuke Saito, Imansyah Harun, Isamu Kuboki, Hideharu Tachibana

171

The impact of school leadership development: evidence from the ‘new visions’ programme for early headship

Tony Bush, Ann RJ Briggs, David Middlewood

185

Postgraduate professional development for teachers: motivational and inhibiting factors affecting the completion of awards

Linet Arthur, Harriet Marland, Amanda Pill, Tony Rea

201

What makes teacher professional development work? The influence of instructional resources on change in physical education

Nate McCaughtry, Jeffrey Martin, Pamela Hodges Kulinna, Donetta Cothran

221

The professional development needs of education welfare officers on the management of school attendance

Ken Reid

237

Leaders backing leaders: a programme of school business management

Ray Moorcroft, Trevor Summerson

255

Science learning centres and governmental policy of continuing professional development (CPD) in England

Keith Bishop, Paul Denley

281