The Experiences, Attitudes and Expectations of Music Students from a Feminist Perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Maidlow
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Postgraduate Student ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Grid Technique

Attempting to explain the mis-match between women's low profile in most music professions and females' success in formal music education, I looked for differences in the attitudes, experiences and expectations of music students. This was done by using repertory grids with relatively small numbers of A-level and undergraduate music students, and postgraduate student teachers with music degrees. Constructivist psychology, of which repertory grid technique is a practical example, offers approaches in harmony with feminist preferences for the meaning people attach to their situation and the usefulness of their interpretation over notions of truth. Thus participants' responses dictate any groupings to emanate from analysis, rather than their being placed in pre-determined categories.The outcomes of the study suggested, however, that little differentiates female and male musicians, as represented by these music students. Conversely, the results implied that the sexes are inclined to think similarly, insofar as likenesses in their attitudes could be associated with their instrument, and, crucially, that each sex tended to look to mo dels I mentors who reflected their sex as well as instrument. The sexes' inconsistency of achievement might then be explained by differences between sex-role models.

Researching learners’ perceptions: The use of the repertory grid technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110136
Author(s):  
Ishamina Athirah Gardiner ◽  
Andrew Littlejohn ◽  
Sarah Boye
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Learner Perceptions ◽  
Grid Technique

This article examines the use of the repertory grid technique as a method to investigate learner perceptions in language education research. An important issue raised in this article concerns how far a researcher’s agenda may be unintentionally imposed onto a research study which is investigating learners’ perceptions, and how far the ensuing data may provide an accurate representation of the learners’ viewpoints. A discussion of conventional research methods in perception research indicates the limitations of many structured research instruments such as questionnaires, surveys and interviews with regard to gaining reliable insights into learners’ views. The article considers the potential of using the repertory grid technique in perception research in terms of minimizing researcher influence and obtaining data that reflects learners’ perceptions. Taking a research study on the perceptions of secondary school learners of the language classroom as an example, the article demonstrates how building repertory grids can reveal insights into the learners’ thought processes and give the researchers access into the different ways learners view the classroom. The article also considers some issues in terms of data analysis and the interpreting of language data. It concludes that the repertory grid technique is a useful approach in perception research which can provide valuable data that is revealing of participants’ actual views.

Cognitive Tools for Group Decision Making

2011 ◽  
pp. 172-192
Author(s):  
Marco Castellani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Problem Setting

This chapter combines the use of cognitive mapping and the repertory grid technique in a socio-organizational perspective and in a problem-solving oriented approach, so as to avoid some recurrent trappings of decision making such as biased goal-oriented behaviour and misleading perceptions of the task environment. The approach requires that a group of people facing a forthcoming choice are randomly split up into three sub-groups of nearly the same number. Subjects in the first sub-group are interviewed about their representation of the problem setting and on potential strategies. In this preliminary step the interviewer, after building up the resulting individual cognitive maps, extracts and codes the main recurrent concepts (“states of the world”). These concepts are used for an evaluation of the task environment by the second sub-group, whose subjects use the repertory grid technique. Individuals are shown how to express their viewpoint in terms of “constructs”, which are theoretical abstractions for exploring concepts or real events. The repertory grids elicited provide the building blocks for the final phase of the approach, assigned to the third sub-group. This group is required to generate feasible alternatives for targets derived from grid evidence by exploiting the “province of meaning” through a very simple diagrammatic scheme. The entire approach, which represents a narrow method where each step is linked to the following one, is discussed by making references to the results of a pilot experiment.

The Rationale and Clinical Relevance of Repertory Grid Technique

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (479) ◽  
pp. 977-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bannister
Keyword(s):  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Sorting Tests ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Sorting Test ◽  
Derivatives Of

All forms of Repertory Grid technique are derivatives of an original proposed by G. A. Kelly (1955) as an integral part of the development of Personal Construct Theory (summarized Bannister, 1962). In essence, repertory grids are forms of sorting test. They differ from conventional sorting tests in that there are no standard sorting materials or sorting categories nor is there any standard single form of administration or scoring procedure. Their unique characteristics are that:

scholarly journals Listener-Position and Orientation Dependency of Auditory Perception in an Enclosed Space: Elicitation of Salient Attributes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1570
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ioan Băcilă ◽  
Hyunkook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Perception ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Head Orientation ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Apparent Source ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Subjective Study ◽  
Enclosed Space ◽  
Orientation Dependency

This paper presents a subjective study conducted on the perception of auditory attributes depending on listener position and head orientation in an enclosed space. Two elicitation experiments were carried out using the repertory grid technique—in-situ and laboratory experiments—which aimed to identify perceptual attributes among 10 different combinations of the listener’s positions and head orientations in a concert hall. It was found that, between the in-situ and laboratory experiments, the listening positions and head orientations were clustered identically. Ten salient perceptual attributes were identified from the data obtained from the laboratory experiment. Whilst these included conventional attributes such as ASW (apparent source width) and LEV (listener envelopment), new attributes such as PRL (perceived reverb loudness), ARW (apparent reverb width) and Reverb Direction were identified, and they are hypothesised to be sub-attributes of LEV (listener envelopment). Timbral characteristics such as Reverb Brightness and Echo Brightness were also identified as salient attributes, which are considered to potentially contribute to the overall perceived clarity.

Repertory Grid Technique as a Group Psychotherapy Research Instrument

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Winter
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Therapeutic Change ◽  
Therapy Outcome ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
S Application

This article provides a brief description of repertory grid technique and the measures which can be derived from it which may be of value to the investigator of group therapy. It reviews the technique `s application in this area of research, with particular reference to studies of group therapy outcome, studies of the prediction of therapeutic change and studies of the group process.

Using the Repertory Grid Technique to Examine Nursing Staff's Construal of Mothers with Mental Health Problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Blundell ◽  
Anja Wittkowski ◽  
Angelika Wieck ◽  
Dougal Julian Hare
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Grid Technique
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