Open AccessMusic lecturers’ professional development through distant coteaching between two universities in Finland
Author(s) -
Lenita Hietanen,
Anu Sepp,
Heikki Ruismäki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
research studies in music education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1834-5530
pISSN - 1321-103X
DOI - 10.1177/1321103x211017553
Subject(s) - music education , teamwork , professional development , pedagogy , piano , mathematics education , psychology , qualitative research , faculty development , space (punctuation) , sociology , political science , computer science , management , operating system , social science , law , economics
At present, the idea of teacher professional development is widely highlighted in education. The present qualitative study examines whether coteaching in collaboration between music lecturers at two universities could enable their professional development and improve student learning. Our study consisted of piano courses in two independent primary school teacher education programs. In this conceptual work, it appears that the definitions of coteaching also allow a distant collaborative professional development of the two music lecturers. The main challenges were identified as access to a shared physical space and a common group of students, which could be diminished using digitalization.