DWYER, Rachael Maree

PhD University of Queensland 2012 Pages: 264

Music teachers' values and beliefs: narrative case studies of music education

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Link to Thesis: http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:281777

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Abstract/Summary/Outline:

This study sought to investigate and understand music educators’ values and beliefs about music and music education. Specifically, it interrogated how four Queensland teachers’ values and beliefs were influenced and shaped by institutions of music, music education and schooling, and how they were enacted in the teachers’ classroom practice. The literature indicates that teachers’ practice is shaped by their values and beliefs, and where these values and beliefs remain tacit they have the potential to be covertly reproduced...

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