ABSTRACT
The author begins with stories of her own experience of becoming and being a musician and music teacher. She explores her research questions, values and beliefs about music and music education through vignettes of her own experience. When the author began her teacher education programme, she began to think about the way she had learned music at secondary school. While she had enjoyed and been successful in classroom music, she was dissatisfied with her experience as a model on which to base her own teaching practice. The author found what she was looking for in teacher training programme. It was heavily focused on Kodaly methodology, developing musical knowledge aurally and through use of the voice, and presented by a charismatic and convincing lecturer. The author considers the ways in which her values and beliefs had shaped the way she thought about classroom music teaching.
