Control, Constraint, Convergence: Examining Our Roles as Generalist Teacher Music Educators

Abstract

This research explores the effects of institutional constraints on instructional practices in a preservice generalist teacher music education program in Keywords: preservice teacher education, music education, Institutional Ethnography, adjunct facultye are teaching colleagues at a mid-sized university in Ontario, Canada, where we teach in a Faculty of Education. We have both taught Bachelor of Education music methodology 1 courses for generalist (non-specialist) teachers and we have both encountered student resistance to course content. In 2016, we began a funded research project to explore factors that influence generalist teacher confidence and engagement with teaching music in the elementary classroom. Our hope was to improve course content as well as our own teaching practice in music methodology classes. The project arose from our shared belief that relevancy and engagement in our teacher education classes W