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SUMMARY:'MUSICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITION: SOLO-PIANO STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS O
 F ENTERING THE ACADEMY' - KAREN LITTLETON\, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY\, UK
DTSTART:20111017T153000Z
DTEND:20111017T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar I will present work undertaken in collaboratio
 n with Sini Juuti (University of Helsinki)  exploring the identity work of
  adult instrumental students negotiating their entry to a prestigious musi
 c academy and the professional field of music. Ten classical solo-piano st
 udents' accounts of their musical histories and experiences were collected
  through research interviews. The thematic analyses I will present suggest
  that comparative dynamics between self and other(s) are key mediators of 
 students' musical identity work. I will consider how students' identity wo
 rk is resourced both by the discursive (re)contextualization and harnessin
 g of entrance test results and accounts of their early experiences of bein
 g in the academy. The salience of key musical practices and the significan
 ce of listening\, as well as being overheard practising\, will also be con
 sidered. In addition\, I will discuss how constructions of practice 'norms
 '\, 'exceptionality' and 'typical' life-courses and trajectories enter int
 o students' identity work. \n\n\nKaren Littleton is Professor of Psycholog
 y in Education at The Open University\, UK where she directs the interdisc
 iplinary Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology. She 
 is the editor of the International Journal of Educational Research and is 
 the editor-in-chief for Routledge's Psychology in Education book series.  
 Her previous publications with include Collaborative Creativity (with Doro
 thy Miell\, 2004) Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking (wit
 h Neil Mercer\, 2007) and Educational Dialogues (with Christine Howe\, 201
 0).\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, room GS1
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