Welcome to the Center for Applied Research in Musical Understanding (CARMU)
Our mission:
- To transform practice in music education
- To build and advance a research-based pedagogy of teaching for musical understanding
- To support PreK-12 music educators in Michigan, the United States, and internationally
- To demonstrate how research informs professional practice in music education
- To seek national and international eminence in applied research in musical understanding at Oakland University
- To support faculty, graduate, and undergraduate research in musical understanding
