Being a musician and becoming a teacher of music: how do they inform and influence each other in beginning teachers' understanding of their learning trajectories

摘要

The paper introduces an analysis of the language employed by participants to an interview to explore the semantic links between their learning experiences as musicians and as teachers of music in a dedicated pre-service teacher education program in a Romanian university. More than one space of action and more than one dimensional frames of reference are employed in explaining who they are as professionals, what, why and how they do in the course of day to day examples of professional practice in the school. Action -physical, mental or emotional - is explored on a horizontal frame of reference taking into consideration the many spaces of action in and out of the school informing their stances on the practical discourse of acting in the classroom, as well as a vertical one which exposes current decision-making processes to the influences of past experiences or their implications for the future with a variety of contexts and actors to refer to. The analysis presented here is part of a broader research project exploring beginning teachers' learning in early stages of their career. This project has been supported by CNCSIS-UEF1SCSU, project number PN II-RU PD 21/2010