Developing teacher identity among music performance students

The mythologised image of the musician as performer often contradicts the reality. This article reports initial results from a study that used learner-generated drawings and journal reflections with music performance majors as a means to examine emerging perceptions of music teaching. Whilst initial...

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Main Author: Bennett, Dawn
Other Authors: Dr Anne Power
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Monash University 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44916
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description The mythologised image of the musician as performer often contradicts the reality. This article reports initial results from a study that used learner-generated drawings and journal reflections with music performance majors as a means to examine emerging perceptions of music teaching. Whilst initial drawings illustrated traditional images of the teacher as knowledge giver, these gave way to more fluid and student-centred images in which students appeared to identify with teaching in new ways. The combination of textual and non-textual data provided insights that would not otherwise have been evident, and the broad consideration of 'possible selves' became a useful tool in the explorations of identity and career.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-449162017-10-02T02:27:09Z Developing teacher identity among music performance students Bennett, Dawn Dr Anne Power identity career development teaching music education The mythologised image of the musician as performer often contradicts the reality. This article reports initial results from a study that used learner-generated drawings and journal reflections with music performance majors as a means to examine emerging perceptions of music teaching. Whilst initial drawings illustrated traditional images of the teacher as knowledge giver, these gave way to more fluid and student-centred images in which students appeared to identify with teaching in new ways. The combination of textual and non-textual data provided insights that would not otherwise have been evident, and the broad consideration of 'possible selves' became a useful tool in the explorations of identity and career. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44916 Monash University fulltext
spellingShingle identity
career development
teaching
music education
Bennett, Dawn
Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title_full Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title_fullStr Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title_full_unstemmed Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title_short Developing teacher identity among music performance students
title_sort developing teacher identity among music performance students
topic identity
career development
teaching
music education
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44916