RT Journal Article
T1 What is attractive about becoming a music teacher? Exploring the motivations of pre-service music teachers towards the profession
A1 Mateos-Moreno, Daniel
K1 Música - Estudio y enseñanza
K1 Profesores de música
K1 Musicología
K1 Motivación (Psicología)
K1 Música - Investigación
AB Uncovering the motivations towards a profession may contribute to a better understanding of how theprofession is chosen and will be pursued. However, the research on the attractiveness of the music teachingprofession is rather limited and predominantly focused on identity development, thereby overlooking otheraspects that may play a role. In pursuing a case study, my aim is to contribute to this field of research byinvestigating the views of pre-service music teachers enrolled at the University of Karlstad in Sweden. Theresults depict a unique motivational profile compared to their counterparts in other subjects. These differentialaspects are threefold, indicating a high prevalence of ‘extrinsic motivations’ driving their choice of profession,that ‘altruistic reasons’ have lower significance as a motivating factor, and that there is a poor perceivedrelevance of these individuals’ future profession. In addition, this study provides evidence of the prevalence of‘musician identities’ over ‘teaching identities’ and foresees the dependence between the participants’ motivationand their future students’ progression. Moreover, I hypothesise that career changes and Pygmalion effects are tobe expected if intrinsic motivation towards the profession is not fostered or if this population’s motivation islinked to the progress of their students rather than the challenge of motivating them in the first place.
PB Cambridge
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28609
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28609
LA eng
NO Mateos-Moreno D (2023). What is attractive about becoming a music teacher? Exploring the motivations of pre-service music teachers towards the profession. British Journal of Music Education 40, 311–324. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0265051723000335
NO Funding for open Access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUAThe authors disclose receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033), under grant to Project Musihabitus (ref. PID2020-118002RB-I00). The article has been published as an Open Access publication under an agreement (providing funding for open access charges) between Cambridge University Press and the University of Malaga.
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