abstract: ABSTRACT In this study, I used a qualitative approach to explore the music teacher role identities of six beginning music teachers prior to, during, and after their student teaching experience. Data collection included participant-observation, interviews, and e-mail communication. Specifically, I looked at what each of these beginning music teachers discussed when describing themselves in the role of music teacher. These participants' music teacher role identities appeared to focus on four main components, while also remaining unique from one another. Those four components were: musical selves, instructional selves, professional selves, and ideological selves. Further, the participants' role identities appeared to change from the period prior to student teaching through student teaching to the time after their student teaching experience. Based on data gleaned from the participants in this study, I created my own definition of music teacher role identity. This study's findings suggest further research using a longitudinal approach to explore the role identities of music teachers at various stages of their careers. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music Education 2010
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:8780 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Contributors | Paise, Michele Paynter (Author), Schmidt, Margaret (Advisor), Stauffer, Sandra L (Committee member), Bush, Jeffrey (Committee member), Sullivan, Jill M (Committee member), Schildkret, David (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 218 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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