Teachers are catalysts to the success of high-stakes accountability policies, yet noticeably absent from previous studies is an examination of teachers’ responses toward being held accountable for their students’ performance on state-mandated, high-stakes assessments in low socioeconomic status (SES) school…

Currently, little is known about the influence classroom learning has on the spiritual beliefs of students.  Despite this fact, decisions on educational policy, parental home schooling, and even whether to bring legal actions against school districts, often rest on the…

The present essay is a short and probably superficial analysis of music therapy and music therapy research. I have to say that by no means do I consider myself an expert or even experienced enough to provide "critiques" about any…

What we believe we see or hear is often far from the truth of what we are seeing or hearing. What we know we feel is often merely a sign of what we do not know is happening to us.…

Action Research is a useful approach for practitioners who want to develop or improve on their everyday activity, while simultaneously contributing to a scientific body of knowledge. Action Researchers need to be able to reflect critically on their actions and…

The Group for the Research and Promotion of Turkish Music was founded by Asst. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruc Guvenc in 1976, and research in theory and application is being carried out, exploring the subjects of Turkish music history, its instruments…

Even as a Music Therapist with some knowledge and experience with hospice, I was yet unprepared for the intimate passing of one of my own loved ones. This is the story of how I used music to help relieve my…

As you can see our interview Voices’ section is bigger and bigger and it makes us more and more satisfied. You can read about world Music Therapy Conferences and music therapists working in the different parts of the world. At…

For several hundred years now, the primary research method in anthropology has been ethnography. One does not see many experimental studies that use randomized clinical trials in the study of culture. And there is a very practical reason for this.…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the emotional dysfunction associated with diabetes in Mexican young individuals with type-1 diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted to perform a complete clinical and psychosocial evaluation of 93 consecutive type-1 diabetes patients, aged 14…