Date of Award

Spring 2025

Document Type

Project Open Access

Degree Name

Master of Music (MM)

Department

Music

First Advisor

Travis Weller

Abstract

There are a multitude of studies confirming that there are benefits to students when their parents are involved in their instrumental music education. The difficulty for teachers then is to find ways to help parents be more involved. In order for teachers to help parents get involved in the instrumental music program, teachers first need to know what some of the main motivators and barriers are that impact parental participation. Some of the most prevalent themes across current studies on this topic are financial commitment, time commitment, parental and student knowledge and goal setting abilities, parental value of music, help with at home practice, and parenting style. Because research has also shown that parental involvement decreases over time (Upitis, Abrami, Brook & King, 2017), the following discussion will be focused more on elementary level students with occasional mentions of older age levels since some students do start later than elementary school.

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Completed as part of: Music Education Capstone - MUED 680

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