Creating collaborative spaces for musical meaning-making: redefining the music specialist/classroom teacher relationship

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dc.contributor.authorWiens, Sonja
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMorin, Francine (Curriculum, Teaching and Learning) Peters, Beryl (Arts Education, Manitoba Education)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorSerebrin, Wayne (Curriculum, Teaching and Learning)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-08T17:12:19Z
dc.date.available2013-04-08T17:12:19Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-08
dc.degree.disciplineCurriculum, Teaching and Learningen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education (M.Ed.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines what and how classroom teachers and a music specialist learn on their own, with each other, and with their students when they engage in collaborative, multimodal teaching and learning experiences. Through excerpts from interviews, planning sessions, focus groups, and the retelling of classroom experiences, this action research-inspired narrative inquiry documents and explores the experiences of four elementary school teachers as they worked together over a 12-week period. Through a restructured music schedule—designed to facilitate sustainable integrated, multiple literacy experiences—the teachers collaborated with the children and with one another to co-construct authentic learning experiences which drew upon and expanded students' interests and inquiries, and which positioned music in new ways as another classroom language. The unfolding stories examined in this inquiry resonate with the ideas and the spirit of the atelier in Reggio Emilia schools, and they point to the importance of meaningful, collaborative relationships in teacher learning and reflection. The study has implications for the ways in which musical experiences may be structured, made more complex, and revalued in elementary schools.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2013en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/18721
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectmusicen_US
dc.subjecteducationen_US
dc.subjectearly-yearsen_US
dc.subjectinquiryen_US
dc.subjectcollaborationen_US
dc.subjectteam-teachingen_US
dc.subjectprofessional learning communityen_US
dc.subjectnarrative inquiryen_US
dc.subjectteacher learningen_US
dc.subjectarts integrationen_US
dc.subjectOrffen_US
dc.subjectReggio Emiliaen_US
dc.titleCreating collaborative spaces for musical meaning-making: redefining the music specialist/classroom teacher relationshipen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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