Part 1
1. Introduction
Interlude: Narrative Beginnings
2. Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
3. The Field of Music Education
4. The Habitus of a Music Teacher
Part 2: The Narratives
5. Michael Cook at St Mark’s College
6. Sam Hall at Chiswick College
7. Jan Laws at Blackfield State High School
8. Jayden Wood at Seaview State High School
Part 3: Narratives Illuminated
9. Capital, Habitus and Field in Music Education: Hierarchies, Traditions and Marginalisation
Postlude: Narrative Coda
References
Index
Biography
Rachael Dwyer is a musician, teacher and researcher, with her interests including music teacher education, sociology of music education, research education and narrative inquiry. She spent a number of years as a music specialist teacher in primary and secondary schools prior to completing her doctoral studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. Rachael's doctoral research sought to investigate how music teachers' values and beliefs about music and music education are enacted in practice and how these beliefs are socially and culturally shaped. Rachael is currently a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.
