Facilitating collaborative professional development among instrumental and vocal teachers: A qualitative study with an Austrian Music School.

ABSTRACT: This case study provides an in-depth investigation in a professional development project about facilitating collaborative reflection. This was led by a research team from the university with 13 instrumental music teachers from one music school in Styria (Austria) during 2019-2021 (including the initial COVID-19 pandemic). Research questions considered (1) the participants' descriptions of the collaborative professional development, (2) participants' uses of reflection tools and indications of their identification with workshop interventions, as well as factors responsible for the outcomes from the reflection tools; and (3) ways participants' thinking and attitudes may have developed through the workshops, how they defined themselves as a group (if they did), and how they might have gained

SUBMITTER: Kruse-Weber S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10457005 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature