ERIC Number: EJ1449676
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1461-3808
EISSN: EISSN-1469-9893
Discourses in Swedish Preschool Music Teachers' Conversations: Proficiency, Subordination and Resistance
Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson; Ylva Holmberg
Music Education Research, v26 n5 p546-555 2024
In recent years, Swedish preschool has been subjected to significant changes. As there is a lack of studies examining how teachers in music rhetorically position themselves within this context, the aim is to study subject positions that are constructed in conversations between preschool music teachers (PMTs) and to discuss these positions in relation to the quality of preschool practice in music education. The theoretical and methodological framework is grounded in social constructionist theories and the empirical material consists of group conversations with PMTs. The results reveal three prominent discourses, the discourses of Proficiency, of Subordination and of Resistance. In conclusion, the PMTs show that they are opposed by other pedagogues in various ways. This makes the possibility of establishing a music-teaching practice on their level of expertise severely restricted, which in turn has an impact on the quality of the preschool practice in music education.
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Music, Educational Quality, Peer Relationship, Teaching Methods, Expertise, Discourse Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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