Exploring learning in vocational education - a dialectic approach to understanding identities in the making as reflected in undergraduates' narratives of studying an instrument

摘要

Transcripts of voice-recorded interviews taken with music undergraduates from a Romanian university are subjected to an analysis aiming at exploring how students question, author responses and position themselves in the activity of learning whilst situating it in different periods in their history of learning to play the musical instrument. The analysis employs theoretical instruments opposing different epistemic stances on learning and identity: those embedded in the stream of research generated by Lave and Wenger's theory of learning as participation to a community of practice, and those of the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). Implications for research are discussed. This work was supported by CNCSIS-UEFISCSU, project number PN II-RU 21/2010.