Margaret S Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 205265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret S Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret S |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5904-9915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Counting” Progress: How Research Methodologies Shape Understandings of Gendered Employment in Australia's Professional Orchestras
Gender has traditionally been a key focus in efforts to address equity and diversity in orchestras and other musical settings. Since the mid-1990s, indicators and assessment of performance or achievement of gender equity have traditionally relied on quantitative methodologies that broadly “count” parity (and success) as when 50/50 employment between male and female musicians is achieved. Research and industry leaders have commonly pointed to such…
How do children with hearing loss progress in group flute lessons compared to their normally hearing peers? A preliminary study
Music education for individuals with hearing loss has a long history, yet it is not comprehensively understood how children with hearing loss progress in mainstream instrumental music settings. The present study addressed this by assessing the progress of eight flute students, four with hearing loss who wore hearing aids and four with normal hearing, over 9 months of group lessons. Results showed that children with hearing loss achieved equivalen…
Development of Early Choral Expertise: Insights from Middle School Elite Choristers
General models of talent development have highlighted the importance of a community of practice to nurture talent potential, with recent studies refining factors that contribute to the developmental journey. In music, an early model described three phases of talent development, while current research has focused on transitions between these. Choral music research has investigated conductors’ expertise and choristers’ experiences, highlighting pos…
Whole-school music mentoring: Effecting positive change for teaching and learning in early-childhood and primary education
Global approaches to provide effective in-service music teaching education to generalist primary teachers include intensive summer schools, collaborations with professional orchestras, school-driven initiatives, and in situ mentoring programs. This article describes and analyses a qualitative case study of whole-school music mentoring, where over 7 years every classroom teacher in an infants’ school (K–2) participated in a music mentoring interve…
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students
This study documents the enduring impacts of a workplace music mentoring programme for generalist classroom teachers in early childhood school settings in Australia. The study draws on follow-up interviews with mentors, teachers and principals from five of 11 participating schools one year after the programme. This study identifies participant perceptions of enduring outcomes, enduring effective mentoring, and effective mentor qualities. Two rese…
The impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns on professional and personal lives of freelance creative collaborative musicians
The global pandemic has severely disrupted the performing arts sector, with research documenting economic, professional, and health impacts on musicians. The psychological effects of lockdowns have been recognized, but little is known regarding their impact on freelance creative collaborative artists. This qualitative case study uses a resilience lens to report the perspectives of freelance creative collaborative musicians from the city of Melbou…
Living Room: An Emergent Practice of Creative-Relational Health
This essay is an account of creating a learning encounter for other artists. We write our becoming together, finding our way to do justice both to the fluidity of (our) process and to the fluidity of processes of "making good practice" to creatively care for the health and wellbeing of artists in a context of precarity. Our "creative-relational" inquiry frames the learning encounter and co-exists in the planning-testing-doing process we used to d…
The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music
Investigation of the role of music in early life and learning has been somewhat fragmented, with studies being undertaken within a range of fields with little apparent conversation across disciplinary boundaries, and with an emphasis on preschoolers’ and school-aged children’s learning and engagement. The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music brings together leading researchers in infant and early childhood cognitio…
Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music
Choral Flourishing: Parent and child perspectives on the benefits of participation in an excellent youth choir
Over the last decade research has reported a range of positive life and learning outcomes for adult and child choristers through first-person accounts derived through surveys and interviews. Little is known regarding parent and child perspectives on choral learning, particularly regarding the impacts of participating in excellent choirs on musical development, personal benefits, and contributing factors. This study interviewed six parents and the…
Laying the foundations for lifelong family music practices through Music Early Learning Programs
To lay the foundations for lifelong musical practices, parents need to feel confident using music as a part of their everyday parenting. Music Early Learning Programs (MELPs) can empower parents to use music by laying the foundations for family-based active music-making. Little is known about why parents attend, however, what their aspirations are for their child’s musical engagement now and in the future, or how attendance shapes the way they us…
Motivation, challenges, skills and understanding: Musicians’ perspectives on working in a curated performance programme for older adults in aged care and community settings
Musicians have long worked with older adults and vulnerable populations across the lifespan to support emotional and social well-being. However, there is limited research concerning the experiences and preparation of professional musicians who work with social aims transitioning to working as community musicians. This project is unique in its attempt to further understand the motivations, skills and understanding of professional musicians working…
Gender as performance, experience, identity and, variable: A systematic review of gender research in jazz and improvisation
There is growing interest in examining the gendered nature of music practices worldwide. Recent investigations of access to and equity in the music industry have included studies of gender discrimination in classical music, popular music, film music, and within the structure of colonization. This article contributes to this work by reporting the findings of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of research that addresses the gendered nature of jaz…
Signature Pedagogies in Collaborative Creative Learning in Advanced Music Training, Education and Professional Development: A Meta-Synthesis
Recent debates concerned with Western music performance training have grappled with the question of what kind of education and training will best equip music students to navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex professional environment. Increasingly, attention has turned to the role of collaborative creativity and how collaborative, creative skills can be nurtured. Therefore, this paper interrogates the signature pedagogies of collaborative c…
“A Common Obsession”: Children’s and Young People’s Perceptions of Learning in an Intensive Summer Choral Program
This article reports the findings of an investigation of children’s and young people’s perceptions of learning and life outcomes, environmental supports and teaching and learning strategies encountered in an intensive summer choral program. Whilst the recognition of children’s and young people’s right to voice their perspectives was enshrined in the UN Convention on the rights of the child (1989), the music education profession has taken some tim…
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives
Investigations of the English Cathedral Choral tradition have ranged from studies of the pedagogical practices and environmental affordances and constraints that support choral excellence to the introduction of female voices into a male-dominated musical practice. Studies of choral participation have investigated the health and wellbeing outcomes of choral participation across the lifespan, and the psychological benefits and life skills of teamwo…
In their own voice: The role of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts Paper Writers in ensuring equitable access to quality Arts education in Australia
Music early learning programs: Enduring outcomes for children and their families
Music early learning programs (MELPs) that provide music services to parents and carers of children aged birth through 8 years are proliferating. Parents make significant financial and social investments in MELPs, yet little is known of their motivations and aspirations nor of the enduring outcomes of participation. This article reports the findings of an interview study with 10 parents, 1 grandparent, and 8 child former participants in a MELP pr…
On Narrative
n 2006, Wayne Bowman asked those gathered for the first Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (NIME) conference, "Why narrative? Why now?" Bowman cautioned, in the opening keynote address, that narrative was not the answer to all questions asked and unasked, the position without positioning, the view from everywhere. To take such stances only makes of narrative inquiry another orthodoxy: a status, I think, quite at odds with its most promising fea…
Associations between early shared music activities in the home and later child outcomes: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Guided tour”: A method for deepening the relational quality in narrative research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: first, to provide a description and theoretical rationale for a methodological innovation used to explore relationships visitors form with a single museum over time; and second, to examine and critique the research outcomes in light of this approach. Design/methodology/approach To probe individual relationships with a museum, in this narrative inquiry, a unique method of data generation was developed…
Investigating Sustained Visitor/Museum Relationships: Employing Narrative Research in the Field of Museum Visitor Studies
Museums today are faced with a number of challenges and are currently searching for ways to attract and retain audiences and engage with the public. In order to address these issues, researchers have called for studies to help construct a more complete understanding of the visitor experience. Few studies employ methodological approaches that provide in-depth accounts of the museum experience. Narrative methodology is one means by which researcher…
Sounding Lives in and Through Music: A Narrative Inquiry of the `Everyday' Musical Engagement of a Young Child
There is growing interest in the study of young children's `everyday' lives. Music engagement is central to young children's experience of the `everyday' yet few studies have investigated the ways young children and their families engage with and use music in their daily lives. The purpose of this article is twofold: it interrogates the ways in which a young child, and his family draw on musical engagement and use in their daily life; and it prov…
The inter‐reflexive possibilities of dual observations: An Account From and Through Experience
In this article, we explore the methodological possibilities of dual observation and ‘inter‐reflexive’ interpretation as we have experienced this in a longitudinal ethnographic case study of music teaching and learning in an English Cathedral Choir School. Our intent here is to understand the ways in which our particular historical, social and cultural perspectives lead us to partial yet complementary sensings, seeings, hearings and feelings in t…
Associations between early shared music activities in the home and later child outcomes: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Sounding Lives in and Through Music: A Narrative Inquiry of the `Everyday' Musical Engagement of a Young Child
There is growing interest in the study of young children's `everyday' lives. Music engagement is central to young children's experience of the `everyday' yet few studies have investigated the ways young children and their families engage with and use music in their daily lives. The purpose of this article is twofold: it interrogates the ways in which a young child, and his family draw on musical engagement and use in their daily life; and it prov…
Guided tour”: A method for deepening the relational quality in narrative research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: first, to provide a description and theoretical rationale for a methodological innovation used to explore relationships visitors form with a single museum over time; and second, to examine and critique the research outcomes in light of this approach. Design/methodology/approach To probe individual relationships with a museum, in this narrative inquiry, a unique method of data generation was developed…
Investigating Sustained Visitor/Museum Relationships: Employing Narrative Research in the Field of Museum Visitor Studies
Museums today are faced with a number of challenges and are currently searching for ways to attract and retain audiences and engage with the public. In order to address these issues, researchers have called for studies to help construct a more complete understanding of the visitor experience. Few studies employ methodological approaches that provide in-depth accounts of the museum experience. Narrative methodology is one means by which researcher…
Sounding Lives in and Through Music: A Narrative Inquiry of the `Everyday' Musical Engagement of a Young Child
There is growing interest in the study of young children's `everyday' lives. Music engagement is central to young children's experience of the `everyday' yet few studies have investigated the ways young children and their families engage with and use music in their daily lives. The purpose of this article is twofold: it interrogates the ways in which a young child, and his family draw on musical engagement and use in their daily life; and it prov…
The inter‐reflexive possibilities of dual observations: An Account From and Through Experience
In this article, we explore the methodological possibilities of dual observation and ‘inter‐reflexive’ interpretation as we have experienced this in a longitudinal ethnographic case study of music teaching and learning in an English Cathedral Choir School. Our intent here is to understand the ways in which our particular historical, social and cultural perspectives lead us to partial yet complementary sensings, seeings, hearings and feelings in t…
Guided tour”: A method for deepening the relational quality in narrative research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: first, to provide a description and theoretical rationale for a methodological innovation used to explore relationships visitors form with a single museum over time; and second, to examine and critique the research outcomes in light of this approach. Design/methodology/approach To probe individual relationships with a museum, in this narrative inquiry, a unique method of data generation was developed…
Associations between early shared music activities in the home and later child outcomes: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
In their own voice: The role of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts Paper Writers in ensuring equitable access to quality Arts education in Australia
Music early learning programs: Enduring outcomes for children and their families
Music early learning programs (MELPs) that provide music services to parents and carers of children aged birth through 8 years are proliferating. Parents make significant financial and social investments in MELPs, yet little is known of their motivations and aspirations nor of the enduring outcomes of participation. This article reports the findings of an interview study with 10 parents, 1 grandparent, and 8 child former participants in a MELP pr…
On Narrative
n 2006, Wayne Bowman asked those gathered for the first Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (NIME) conference, "Why narrative? Why now?" Bowman cautioned, in the opening keynote address, that narrative was not the answer to all questions asked and unasked, the position without positioning, the view from everywhere. To take such stances only makes of narrative inquiry another orthodoxy: a status, I think, quite at odds with its most promising fea…
Gender as performance, experience, identity and, variable: A systematic review of gender research in jazz and improvisation
There is growing interest in examining the gendered nature of music practices worldwide. Recent investigations of access to and equity in the music industry have included studies of gender discrimination in classical music, popular music, film music, and within the structure of colonization. This article contributes to this work by reporting the findings of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of research that addresses the gendered nature of jaz…
Signature Pedagogies in Collaborative Creative Learning in Advanced Music Training, Education and Professional Development: A Meta-Synthesis
Recent debates concerned with Western music performance training have grappled with the question of what kind of education and training will best equip music students to navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex professional environment. Increasingly, attention has turned to the role of collaborative creativity and how collaborative, creative skills can be nurtured. Therefore, this paper interrogates the signature pedagogies of collaborative c…
“A Common Obsession”: Children’s and Young People’s Perceptions of Learning in an Intensive Summer Choral Program
This article reports the findings of an investigation of children’s and young people’s perceptions of learning and life outcomes, environmental supports and teaching and learning strategies encountered in an intensive summer choral program. Whilst the recognition of children’s and young people’s right to voice their perspectives was enshrined in the UN Convention on the rights of the child (1989), the music education profession has taken some tim…
Enduring impacts of cathedral choral training on choristers’ lives
Investigations of the English Cathedral Choral tradition have ranged from studies of the pedagogical practices and environmental affordances and constraints that support choral excellence to the introduction of female voices into a male-dominated musical practice. Studies of choral participation have investigated the health and wellbeing outcomes of choral participation across the lifespan, and the psychological benefits and life skills of teamwo…
The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music
Investigation of the role of music in early life and learning has been somewhat fragmented, with studies being undertaken within a range of fields with little apparent conversation across disciplinary boundaries, and with an emphasis on preschoolers’ and school-aged children’s learning and engagement. The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music brings together leading researchers in infant and early childhood cognitio…
Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music
Choral Flourishing: Parent and child perspectives on the benefits of participation in an excellent youth choir
Over the last decade research has reported a range of positive life and learning outcomes for adult and child choristers through first-person accounts derived through surveys and interviews. Little is known regarding parent and child perspectives on choral learning, particularly regarding the impacts of participating in excellent choirs on musical development, personal benefits, and contributing factors. This study interviewed six parents and the…
Laying the foundations for lifelong family music practices through Music Early Learning Programs
To lay the foundations for lifelong musical practices, parents need to feel confident using music as a part of their everyday parenting. Music Early Learning Programs (MELPs) can empower parents to use music by laying the foundations for family-based active music-making. Little is known about why parents attend, however, what their aspirations are for their child’s musical engagement now and in the future, or how attendance shapes the way they us…
Motivation, challenges, skills and understanding: Musicians’ perspectives on working in a curated performance programme for older adults in aged care and community settings
Musicians have long worked with older adults and vulnerable populations across the lifespan to support emotional and social well-being. However, there is limited research concerning the experiences and preparation of professional musicians who work with social aims transitioning to working as community musicians. This project is unique in its attempt to further understand the motivations, skills and understanding of professional musicians working…
Enduring impacts of collaborative workplace music mentoring for early childhood generalist teachers, music mentors and students
This study documents the enduring impacts of a workplace music mentoring programme for generalist classroom teachers in early childhood school settings in Australia. The study draws on follow-up interviews with mentors, teachers and principals from five of 11 participating schools one year after the programme. This study identifies participant perceptions of enduring outcomes, enduring effective mentoring, and effective mentor qualities. Two rese…
The impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns on professional and personal lives of freelance creative collaborative musicians
The global pandemic has severely disrupted the performing arts sector, with research documenting economic, professional, and health impacts on musicians. The psychological effects of lockdowns have been recognized, but little is known regarding their impact on freelance creative collaborative artists. This qualitative case study uses a resilience lens to report the perspectives of freelance creative collaborative musicians from the city of Melbou…
Living Room: An Emergent Practice of Creative-Relational Health
This essay is an account of creating a learning encounter for other artists. We write our becoming together, finding our way to do justice both to the fluidity of (our) process and to the fluidity of processes of "making good practice" to creatively care for the health and wellbeing of artists in a context of precarity. Our "creative-relational" inquiry frames the learning encounter and co-exists in the planning-testing-doing process we used to d…
Development of Early Choral Expertise: Insights from Middle School Elite Choristers
General models of talent development have highlighted the importance of a community of practice to nurture talent potential, with recent studies refining factors that contribute to the developmental journey. In music, an early model described three phases of talent development, while current research has focused on transitions between these. Choral music research has investigated conductors’ expertise and choristers’ experiences, highlighting pos…
Whole-school music mentoring: Effecting positive change for teaching and learning in early-childhood and primary education
Global approaches to provide effective in-service music teaching education to generalist primary teachers include intensive summer schools, collaborations with professional orchestras, school-driven initiatives, and in situ mentoring programs. This article describes and analyses a qualitative case study of whole-school music mentoring, where over 7 years every classroom teacher in an infants’ school (K–2) participated in a music mentoring interve…
“Counting” Progress: How Research Methodologies Shape Understandings of Gendered Employment in Australia's Professional Orchestras
Gender has traditionally been a key focus in efforts to address equity and diversity in orchestras and other musical settings. Since the mid-1990s, indicators and assessment of performance or achievement of gender equity have traditionally relied on quantitative methodologies that broadly “count” parity (and success) as when 50/50 employment between male and female musicians is achieved. Research and industry leaders have commonly pointed to such…
How do children with hearing loss progress in group flute lessons compared to their normally hearing peers? A preliminary study
Music education for individuals with hearing loss has a long history, yet it is not comprehensively understood how children with hearing loss progress in mainstream instrumental music settings. The present study addressed this by assessing the progress of eight flute students, four with hearing loss who wore hearing aids and four with normal hearing, over 9 months of group lessons. Results showed that children with hearing loss achieved equivalen…
Psychology (19 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (16 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Music education (10 works) · Music Therapy and Health (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Art (7 works)