Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Music Education, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 30, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-247). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1962. / Typescript; issued also as microfilm. Sponsor: Margaret Lindsey. Dissertation Committee: Dorothy McGeoch. Type C project. Includes tables. "Bibliography--Seminar in secondary school teaching": leaves 274-276. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [250]-258).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1964. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Florence B. Stratemeyer. Dissertation Committee: Dorothy M. McGeoch. Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse (M.Ed.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-225). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9955918.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005. / Title from title page screen, viewed September 25, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Norma C. Presmeg (chair), Nerida F. Ellerton, Beverly S. Rich. Includes bibliographical references leaves and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005. / Title from title page screen, viewed September 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent Rhodes (chair), Paul Vogt, Barbara Nourie, Rex Morrow, Mary Autry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-76) and abstract. Also available in print.

A plethora of literature on cooperating teachers exists, but it is written from university researchers’ perspectives, leaving cooperating teachers’ voices silenced. Most researchers discuss what cooperating teachers do rather than who cooperating teachers say they are, particularly when they speak of themselves as teacher educators. The focus of this study was specifically on music cooperating teachers, and its purpose was to investigate their identities as narrative constructions. I employed Connelly and Clandinin’s (1999) stories to live by, Bruner’s (1987; 1991; 2002) self-making, and Ricoeur’s ipse-identity and idem-identity to suggest that identity stories were multiple, mobile, and contingent. Still, human beings sought continuity in their identity stories over time, and such stories were shaped in social and institutional contexts. Using touchstones of narrative inquiry (see Clandinin & Caine, 2013), I held six planned conversations with two other music cooperating teachers, which first generated field texts, and then, led to many follow-up conversations. The participants and I engaged in an eight-month process of co-constructing interim research texts. Clandinin acknowledged that, because identity stories were works in progress, standard research texts often were ineffective vehicles used to convey narrative identity. Therefore, I implemented a novella, an emotional story relying on character development, to present the final research text, and I entitled it “Between the Hedges.” Within my interpretations and reflections on “Between the Hedges,” I discussed how, when considering ourselves as music teacher educators, we told public and private stories of family and school, further situated as children, students, and parents. Parents and music teachers were highly influential figures, and not always in positive ways. Although the situated identity stories were multiple, each cooperating teacher wove a thread of sameness between his or her stories as they were retold and relived. I concluded that the sameness in each story was key to understanding rationales for cooperating teachers’ practices of mentoring student teachers.

The problem of this study is differences in perceptions of priorities in selected areas of student teaching existing within the governance set, i.e., university directors of student teaching, public school administrators charged with implementing Senate Bill Eight, and presidents of local units of the Texas State Teachers Association. Six areas were chosen as the focal point of the study: selection of student teachers, selection of cooperating teachers, selection of college coordinators, placement of student teachers, evaluation of student teachers, and expenditure of Senate Bill Eight funds designated for the support of student teaching programs. The study concluded that the governance set is in overall agreement concerning the ordering of priorities. However, some significant differences were manifested concerning the implementation of specific priorities. Disagreements were noted in the following areas: selection body for student teachers, selection body for cooperating teachers, selection body for college coordinators, minimum grade point averages in education courses, and minimum grade point averages in major area courses.

The problem with which this study is concerned it that of conducting a follow-up study and program appraisal of the teacher-education program at Lamar University in order to determine the extent to which the program is meeting the needs of its graduates. The first purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the Lamar University teacher-education program in providing professional educational theories and the general knowledge that will permit graduates to function in the personal and professional roles for which they were prepared. It is also a purpose of this study to solicit the graduates' opinions concerning the program's strengths and weaknesses.