An Overview of Postgraduate Theses on Values in Music Education in Türkiye

Values have a substantial place in education and have begun to gain significance in recent years. With this study, postgraduate theses on values in music were examined. The study, designed with a qualitative methodology, was conducted with document analysis. The review reached a total of nineteen theses that were conducted between 2013-2023, and it was found that female researchers did most of them. The studies were carried out mostly in 2019, and there were no studies between 2016-2018. The initial study appeared as a doctoral thesis in 2013. Accordingly, it is seen that the studies are mostly carried out in Marmara and İnönü Universities, qualitative research methods are widely used, and mixed methods are rarely preferred. It was revealed that the sample groups were mostly used as books and music notes, followed by students, and then music teachers and teacher candidates were the least preferred. It was observed that the data collection tools were mostly demographic information form, expert opinion and scales, frequency/percentage, graphic representation, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and normality tests by the analysis types. Some results and suggestions were presented by examining the postgraduate theses on values in the field of music education.