Open online courses provide a unique opportunity to examine learner preferences in an environment that removes several pressures associated with traditional learning. This mixed methods study sought to examine the pathways that learners will create for themselves when given the choice between an instructor-directed modality and learner-directed modality. Study participants were first examined based on their levels of self-regulated learning. Follow-up qualitative interviews were conducted to examine the choices that participants made, the impact of the course design on those choices, and what role self-regulation played in the process. The resulting analysis revealed that participants desired an overall learning experience that was tailored to personal learning preferences, but that technical and design limitations can create barriers in the learning experience. The results from this research can help shape future instructional design efforts that wish to increase learner agency and choice in the educational process.

Esta pesquisa trata dos percursos de aprendizagem de músicos multi-instrumentistas. No âmbito deste trabalho, compreende-se como músico multi-instrumentista quem toca vários instrumentos musicais, simultaneamente ou não. A pesquisa contou com a colaboração de quatro músicos multi-instrumentistas e as questões de interesse foram: que instrumentos musicais os músicos tocam, quais os objetivos, interesses e expectativas do aprendizado de vários instrumentos, quais circunstâncias e situações levaram à escolha de cada instrumento musical, como ocorre a estruturação e organização dos estudos com mais instrumentos, como a aprendizagem de um instrumento se correlaciona com a aprendizagem de outros e como se desenvolve a atuação profissional destes músicos. Para buscar as respostas, foi realizada uma investigação com abordagem qualitativa (MINAYO e SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005). A história oral foi adotada como metodologia (MEIHY e HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). O material empírico foi coletado através de entrevistas temáticas semiestruturadas. Esta pesquisa alinha-se com a sociologia da educação musical e tem como referenciais teóricos a socialização (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), a aprendizagem de instrumentos musicais, compreendendo a relação dos músicos com seus instrumentos (NOHR, 1997), a autoaprendizagem (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), a hierarquização social dos instrumentos musicais (BOZON, 2000) e a profissionalização em música (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). Os resultados revelaram que o músico multi-instrumentista realiza um processo de hierarquização dos instrumentos musicais, na qual a hierarquização duradoura reconhece os instrumentos principais como aqueles com os quais é efetivada uma relação de maior tempo de convívio ao longo da trajetória, e a hierarquização momentânea como processo que contribui para a determinação da frequência, intensidade e regularidade da relação músico/instrumento em determinados períodos que configuram os percursos de aprendizagem do músico. Os músicos chegam a “novos” e “outros” instrumentos musicais por intermédio de situações relacionadas ao mercado de trabalho e atuação. Essas, além da apresentação de novas possibilidades, atuam como reguladoras dos processos de estudo, estabelecendo a divisão de atenção entre os instrumentos e contribuindo na elaboração de estratégias para um aprendizado múltiplo. A proximidade entre os instrumentos quanto à família, estrutura física e forma de tocar é revelada como aspecto decisivo à incorporação de novos instrumentos facilitando o aprendizado. A adaptação às necessidades que oportunizam o aprendizado de mais e diferentes instrumentos musicais promovem versatilidade ao multi-instrumentista, expandindo sua atuação a múltiplas frentes divididas na utilização de diferentes instrumentos musicais em diferentes projetos e diferentes instrumentos em um mesmo projeto. O trabalho contribui para o entendimento do ser multi-instrumentista como o músico que realiza um percurso de aprendizagem configurado pelo desafio, pelo novo, por arranjos instrumentais inusitados, imprevisíveis e momentâneos. Um músico que não pretende dar caráter magnífico ou extraordinário à sua prática, distinguindo-se como autoridade, mas validar e significar sua atuação através de uma proposta diferente. / This research is about multi-instrumentalist musicians learning pathways. In the scope of this work, it is understood as multi-instrumentalist musician who plays several instruments at the same time or not. The research had four multi-instrumentalist musicians collaboration and the issues of interest were: the musical instruments that are played by the musicians, the aims, interests and expectatives on several instruments learning, the circunstances and situations influenced in the choice of each musical instrument, how happens the study structure and organization with more instruments, how the learning of an instrument is correlated with learning of anothers and how it is developed the professional performance of these musicians. To find the answers it was done a study with qualitative approach. (MINAYO and SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005) The oral story was adopted as methodology (MEIHY and HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). The empiric material was collected through semistructured thematic interviews. This research is according to the sociology of musical education and it has as theorical references the socialization (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), the learning of musical instruments, it is understood the musicians relationship with their instruments (NOHR, 1997), the self – learning (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), the social hierarchy of musical instruments (BOZON, 2000) and the music professionalization (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). The results revealed that the multi-instrumentalist musician does a hierarchy process of musical instruments in which the lasting hierarchy identify the main instruments as those that it is effected a relationship with longer time together along the trajectory and the momentary hierarchy as a process that contribute the frequency determination, intensity, regularity in the relationship between musician and instrument in certain moments that configure the musician learning pathways. The musicians get closer to “new” and “other” instruments through situations related to the job market and professional performance. These besides the new possibilities presentation work as regulatories in the study processes, and they establish the division of attention among instruments and it contributes in the strategies elaboration for a multiple learning. The proximity among the instruments as for the family, physical structure and the way to play is revealed as a decisive aspect to the incorporation of new instruments through an easy learning. The adaptation to the necessities oportunize the learning of more than one and different musical instruments promote versality to multi-instrumentalist, it expands professional performance to multiples fronts shared in the use of different musical instruments in different projects and different instruments in the same project. The work contributes to the understanding of the being multi-instrumentalist as a musician who accomplishes the learning pathways configured by the challenge, by the new, by the inusitated instrumental arrangements, unforeseeable and momentaries. A musician who does not intend to give a magnificent or extraordinary character to his practice, distinguishing himself as an authority, but to validate and signify his performance through a different proposal.

Informed by institutional ethnography, and taking the problematic from disjunctures in teacher/participants’ experience between actual practice and official policy, this study is an intertextual analysis of print/electronic documents pertaining to students ‘at risk.’ It unpacks the Student Success Strategy in Ontario secondary schools as organized around discourses on risk and safety. Discriminatory classing and racializing processes construct students ‘at risk’ in ways that reproduce socio-economic inequities through premature streaming into pathways geared to post-secondary destinations: university, college, apprenticeship and work. This study questions the accounting logic that reduces education to skills training in workplace literacy/numeracy, and contradicts the official ‘success’ story that promotes Ontario as a model of large-scale educational change. The follow-up intertextual analyses reveal ideological circles that promote ‘evidence-based research’ and ‘evidence-informed practice,’ while actually gearing education to improving ‘results’ on large-scale standardized tests and manufacturing consent for government policies. Questions arise about the lack of transparency and selective use of educational research. A web of behind-the-scenes activities are made visible at public policy think-tanks (e.g. Canadian Council on Learning; Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network), and two little-researched bodies in educational governance — the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) and OECD. Although invisible to teachers, the infrastructure for the Student Success Strategy is the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS); this web-enabled data-management technology has built-in capacity to profile students ‘at risk’ and to instigate accountability and surveillance over teachers’ work, with implications for re-regulating teaching practice towards test scores and aggregate statistics. With the intention of transforming education towards genuine equity, and linking the re-organization of social relations in large-scale reform locally, nationally and globally, this study contributes to critical scholarship on the effects of reform policies on people’s lives and extends knowledge of how translocal text-mediated ruling relations operate in education.

Informed by institutional ethnography, and taking the problematic from disjunctures in teacher/participants’ experience between actual practice and official policy, this study is an intertextual analysis of print/electronic documents pertaining to students ‘at risk.’ It unpacks the Student Success Strategy in Ontario secondary schools as organized around discourses on risk and safety. Discriminatory classing and racializing processes construct students ‘at risk’ in ways that reproduce socio-economic inequities through premature streaming into pathways geared to post-secondary destinations: university, college, apprenticeship and work. This study questions the accounting logic that reduces education to skills training in workplace literacy/numeracy, and contradicts the official ‘success’ story that promotes Ontario as a model of large-scale educational change. The follow-up intertextual analyses reveal ideological circles that promote ‘evidence-based research’ and ‘evidence-informed practice,’ while actually gearing education to improving ‘results’ on large-scale standardized tests and manufacturing consent for government policies. Questions arise about the lack of transparency and selective use of educational research. A web of behind-the-scenes activities are made visible at public policy think-tanks (e.g. Canadian Council on Learning; Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network), and two little-researched bodies in educational governance — the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) and OECD. Although invisible to teachers, the infrastructure for the Student Success Strategy is the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS); this web-enabled data-management technology has built-in capacity to profile students ‘at risk’ and to instigate accountability and surveillance over teachers’ work, with implications for re-regulating teaching practice towards test scores and aggregate statistics. With the intention of transforming education towards genuine equity, and linking the re-organization of social relations in large-scale reform locally, nationally and globally, this study contributes to critical scholarship on the effects of reform policies on people’s lives and extends knowledge of how translocal text-mediated ruling relations operate in education.

Esta pesquisa trata dos percursos de aprendizagem de músicos multi-instrumentistas. No âmbito deste trabalho, compreende-se como músico multi-instrumentista quem toca vários instrumentos musicais, simultaneamente ou não. A pesquisa contou com a colaboração de quatro músicos multi-instrumentistas e as questões de interesse foram: que instrumentos musicais os músicos tocam, quais os objetivos, interesses e expectativas do aprendizado de vários instrumentos, quais circunstâncias e situações levaram à escolha de cada instrumento musical, como ocorre a estruturação e organização dos estudos com mais instrumentos, como a aprendizagem de um instrumento se correlaciona com a aprendizagem de outros e como se desenvolve a atuação profissional destes músicos. Para buscar as respostas, foi realizada uma investigação com abordagem qualitativa (MINAYO e SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005). A história oral foi adotada como metodologia (MEIHY e HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). O material empírico foi coletado através de entrevistas temáticas semiestruturadas. Esta pesquisa alinha-se com a sociologia da educação musical e tem como referenciais teóricos a socialização (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), a aprendizagem de instrumentos musicais, compreendendo a relação dos músicos com seus instrumentos (NOHR, 1997), a autoaprendizagem (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), a hierarquização social dos instrumentos musicais (BOZON, 2000) e a profissionalização em música (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). Os resultados revelaram que o músico multi-instrumentista realiza um processo de hierarquização dos instrumentos musicais, na qual a hierarquização duradoura reconhece os instrumentos principais como aqueles com os quais é efetivada uma relação de maior tempo de convívio ao longo da trajetória, e a hierarquização momentânea como processo que contribui para a determinação da frequência, intensidade e regularidade da relação músico/instrumento em determinados períodos que configuram os percursos de aprendizagem do músico. Os músicos chegam a “novos” e “outros” instrumentos musicais por intermédio de situações relacionadas ao mercado de trabalho e atuação. Essas, além da apresentação de novas possibilidades, atuam como reguladoras dos processos de estudo, estabelecendo a divisão de atenção entre os instrumentos e contribuindo na elaboração de estratégias para um aprendizado múltiplo. A proximidade entre os instrumentos quanto à família, estrutura física e forma de tocar é revelada como aspecto decisivo à incorporação de novos instrumentos facilitando o aprendizado. A adaptação às necessidades que oportunizam o aprendizado de mais e diferentes instrumentos musicais promovem versatilidade ao multi-instrumentista, expandindo sua atuação a múltiplas frentes divididas na utilização de diferentes instrumentos musicais em diferentes projetos e diferentes instrumentos em um mesmo projeto. O trabalho contribui para o entendimento do ser multi-instrumentista como o músico que realiza um percurso de aprendizagem configurado pelo desafio, pelo novo, por arranjos instrumentais inusitados, imprevisíveis e momentâneos. Um músico que não pretende dar caráter magnífico ou extraordinário à sua prática, distinguindo-se como autoridade, mas validar e significar sua atuação através de uma proposta diferente. / This research is about multi-instrumentalist musicians learning pathways. In the scope of this work, it is understood as multi-instrumentalist musician who plays several instruments at the same time or not. The research had four multi-instrumentalist musicians collaboration and the issues of interest were: the musical instruments that are played by the musicians, the aims, interests and expectatives on several instruments learning, the circunstances and situations influenced in the choice of each musical instrument, how happens the study structure and organization with more instruments, how the learning of an instrument is correlated with learning of anothers and how it is developed the professional performance of these musicians. To find the answers it was done a study with qualitative approach. (MINAYO and SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005) The oral story was adopted as methodology (MEIHY and HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). The empiric material was collected through semistructured thematic interviews. This research is according to the sociology of musical education and it has as theorical references the socialization (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), the learning of musical instruments, it is understood the musicians relationship with their instruments (NOHR, 1997), the self – learning (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), the social hierarchy of musical instruments (BOZON, 2000) and the music professionalization (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). The results revealed that the multi-instrumentalist musician does a hierarchy process of musical instruments in which the lasting hierarchy identify the main instruments as those that it is effected a relationship with longer time together along the trajectory and the momentary hierarchy as a process that contribute the frequency determination, intensity, regularity in the relationship between musician and instrument in certain moments that configure the musician learning pathways. The musicians get closer to “new” and “other” instruments through situations related to the job market and professional performance. These besides the new possibilities presentation work as regulatories in the study processes, and they establish the division of attention among instruments and it contributes in the strategies elaboration for a multiple learning. The proximity among the instruments as for the family, physical structure and the way to play is revealed as a decisive aspect to the incorporation of new instruments through an easy learning. The adaptation to the necessities oportunize the learning of more than one and different musical instruments promote versality to multi-instrumentalist, it expands professional performance to multiples fronts shared in the use of different musical instruments in different projects and different instruments in the same project. The work contributes to the understanding of the being multi-instrumentalist as a musician who accomplishes the learning pathways configured by the challenge, by the new, by the inusitated instrumental arrangements, unforeseeable and momentaries. A musician who does not intend to give a magnificent or extraordinary character to his practice, distinguishing himself as an authority, but to validate and signify his performance through a different proposal.

Esta pesquisa trata dos percursos de aprendizagem de músicos multi-instrumentistas. No âmbito deste trabalho, compreende-se como músico multi-instrumentista quem toca vários instrumentos musicais, simultaneamente ou não. A pesquisa contou com a colaboração de quatro músicos multi-instrumentistas e as questões de interesse foram: que instrumentos musicais os músicos tocam, quais os objetivos, interesses e expectativas do aprendizado de vários instrumentos, quais circunstâncias e situações levaram à escolha de cada instrumento musical, como ocorre a estruturação e organização dos estudos com mais instrumentos, como a aprendizagem de um instrumento se correlaciona com a aprendizagem de outros e como se desenvolve a atuação profissional destes músicos. Para buscar as respostas, foi realizada uma investigação com abordagem qualitativa (MINAYO e SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005). A história oral foi adotada como metodologia (MEIHY e HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). O material empírico foi coletado através de entrevistas temáticas semiestruturadas. Esta pesquisa alinha-se com a sociologia da educação musical e tem como referenciais teóricos a socialização (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), a aprendizagem de instrumentos musicais, compreendendo a relação dos músicos com seus instrumentos (NOHR, 1997), a autoaprendizagem (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), a hierarquização social dos instrumentos musicais (BOZON, 2000) e a profissionalização em música (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). Os resultados revelaram que o músico multi-instrumentista realiza um processo de hierarquização dos instrumentos musicais, na qual a hierarquização duradoura reconhece os instrumentos principais como aqueles com os quais é efetivada uma relação de maior tempo de convívio ao longo da trajetória, e a hierarquização momentânea como processo que contribui para a determinação da frequência, intensidade e regularidade da relação músico/instrumento em determinados períodos que configuram os percursos de aprendizagem do músico. Os músicos chegam a “novos” e “outros” instrumentos musicais por intermédio de situações relacionadas ao mercado de trabalho e atuação. Essas, além da apresentação de novas possibilidades, atuam como reguladoras dos processos de estudo, estabelecendo a divisão de atenção entre os instrumentos e contribuindo na elaboração de estratégias para um aprendizado múltiplo. A proximidade entre os instrumentos quanto à família, estrutura física e forma de tocar é revelada como aspecto decisivo à incorporação de novos instrumentos facilitando o aprendizado. A adaptação às necessidades que oportunizam o aprendizado de mais e diferentes instrumentos musicais promovem versatilidade ao multi-instrumentista, expandindo sua atuação a múltiplas frentes divididas na utilização de diferentes instrumentos musicais em diferentes projetos e diferentes instrumentos em um mesmo projeto. O trabalho contribui para o entendimento do ser multi-instrumentista como o músico que realiza um percurso de aprendizagem configurado pelo desafio, pelo novo, por arranjos instrumentais inusitados, imprevisíveis e momentâneos. Um músico que não pretende dar caráter magnífico ou extraordinário à sua prática, distinguindo-se como autoridade, mas validar e significar sua atuação através de uma proposta diferente. / This research is about multi-instrumentalist musicians learning pathways. In the scope of this work, it is understood as multi-instrumentalist musician who plays several instruments at the same time or not. The research had four multi-instrumentalist musicians collaboration and the issues of interest were: the musical instruments that are played by the musicians, the aims, interests and expectatives on several instruments learning, the circunstances and situations influenced in the choice of each musical instrument, how happens the study structure and organization with more instruments, how the learning of an instrument is correlated with learning of anothers and how it is developed the professional performance of these musicians. To find the answers it was done a study with qualitative approach. (MINAYO and SANCHES, 1993; CHIZZOTTI, 2005) The oral story was adopted as methodology (MEIHY and HOLANDA, 2015; ALBERTI, 2013). The empiric material was collected through semistructured thematic interviews. This research is according to the sociology of musical education and it has as theorical references the socialization (SETTON, 2008, 2009, 2011), the learning of musical instruments, it is understood the musicians relationship with their instruments (NOHR, 1997), the self – learning (GOHN, 2003; CORRÊA, 2000, 2008), the social hierarchy of musical instruments (BOZON, 2000) and the music professionalization (KELLER, 1996; TRAVASSOS, 1999). The results revealed that the multi-instrumentalist musician does a hierarchy process of musical instruments in which the lasting hierarchy identify the main instruments as those that it is effected a relationship with longer time together along the trajectory and the momentary hierarchy as a process that contribute the frequency determination, intensity, regularity in the relationship between musician and instrument in certain moments that configure the musician learning pathways. The musicians get closer to “new” and “other” instruments through situations related to the job market and professional performance. These besides the new possibilities presentation work as regulatories in the study processes, and they establish the division of attention among instruments and it contributes in the strategies elaboration for a multiple learning. The proximity among the instruments as for the family, physical structure and the way to play is revealed as a decisive aspect to the incorporation of new instruments through an easy learning. The adaptation to the necessities oportunize the learning of more than one and different musical instruments promote versality to multi-instrumentalist, it expands professional performance to multiples fronts shared in the use of different musical instruments in different projects and different instruments in the same project. The work contributes to the understanding of the being multi-instrumentalist as a musician who accomplishes the learning pathways configured by the challenge, by the new, by the inusitated instrumental arrangements, unforeseeable and momentaries. A musician who does not intend to give a magnificent or extraordinary character to his practice, distinguishing himself as an authority, but to validate and signify his performance through a different proposal.

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