Abstract
This narrative gives an account of a professor’s reflections on her recent experience of full-time K-6 music teaching in an elementary school. The account is recreated from data she collected during that time (field notes and artefacts) and from memories of typical events. It also includes fictional interjections of what students might have been thinking during the events. As the teacher/researcher reflects on events that occurred in that elementary setting, she ponders their relationship to broader educational and societal issues such as the purposes of music education, specifically, and education in general, the role of schools in the emotional development of children, how teachers and students experience the same events differently, and what constitutes success in music education.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Mariconda, B., & Puccio, D. (1993). Bats. Sounds We Found. Shawnee Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Walker, L.N. (2009). Stories from the Front. In: Barrett, M.S., Stauffer, S.L. (eds) Narrative Inquiry in Music Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9862-8_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9862-8_17
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-9861-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-9862-8
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)