Chapter 6
Historical Inquiry: Getting Inside the Process
By Marie McCarthy
Chapter 6 of Inquiry in Music Education describes
• Historical research as a mode of inquiry.
• Contemporary trends and developments.
• Ethics and Historical Research.
• Steps for conducting a historical study:
• exploring topics of interest and framing research questions
• locating, selecting and verifying sources
• crafting a proposal for a historical study
• organizing, critiquing and interpreting sources
• making inferences and drawing conclusions
• organizing and writing the narrative, and
• publishing the findings
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