Listening for Sounds of Striving
Subtitle: Maxine Greene and Stories of Music Teacher Becomings
By: Mya Katherine Magnusson Scarlato
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: This phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of three music teachers who are invited to view themselves and their practices as “becoming” in the context of Maxine Greene’s philosophy of education. In communion with my own becoming as teacher and researcher, I explore the aspects of my participants’ musical and teaching identities over the course of their careers and in relation to their unique teaching contexts. Throughout this project, I explored qualities of resonance, striving, a sense of artistic “re-capturing,” wide-awakeness, social imagination, and courage. I came to understand that stories play an important role in shaping our perceptions of reality and awareness of the lived lives of the “other” as we strive together toward a more just society through artistic encounters in education.
Notes: Department: Arts and Humanities.

Thesis advisor: Randall Everett Allsup.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021.