Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs: Stories from Music Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9781472458148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 156 str.

Rachael Dwyer

Opis

Investigates the relationships between teachers, learners and music in music classrooms. Using the concepts of habitus and doxa as an interpretive lens, this book explores the values and beliefs of four music teachers, depicted in richly detailed narratives.

O autorze

Rachael Dwyer is a musician, teacher and researcher, with her interests including music teacher education, sociology of music education, research education and narrative inquiry. She spent a number of years as a music specialist teacher in primary and secondary schools prior to completing her doctoral studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. Rachael's doctoral research sought to investigate how music teachers' values and beliefs about music and music education are enacted in practice and how these beliefs are socially and culturally shaped. Rachael is currently a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.