ERIC Number: EJ1071123
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 15
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Exploring the Impact of Coteaching on Pre-Service Music Teachers
Kerin, Marita; Murphy, Colette
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, v43 n4 p309-323 2015
This study describes and analyses how coteaching affected undergraduate music education preservice teachers (PSTs). During an 8-week school placement, coteaching was used as a means of creating a reciprocal professional learning arrangement involving PSTs and primary school teachers. The theoretical framework draws on the Russian concept of "obuchenie," which is a dialectical process of mutual adaptation between student and teacher. Music education PST participated as subject expert/pedagogy novice, while generalist classroom teacher occupied the role of pedagogy expert/music novice. Findings relate to the acquisition of four aspects of teacher professional agency, "subject or content knowledge," "pedagogical knowledge," "curricular knowledge," and "pedagogical content knowledge." A thematic analysis was undertaken using data from interviews, PST reflective journals, observations, lesson plans, and researcher field-notes. In comparison with the traditional school placement, there was a radical improvement in the development of professional agency amongst the coteaching cohort.
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Music Education, Undergraduate Students, Team Teaching, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Student Teaching, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Interviews, Student Journals, Lesson Plans, Transcripts (Written Records), Professional Identity, Training Methods, Field Experience Programs, Reflective Teaching, Ethnography, Classroom Techniques, Questioning Techniques, Congruence (Psychology), Student Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland (Dublin)
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