The iron cage of the music teaching profession
A multi-case study on how primary music teachers in Spain understand bureaucracy
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 21490122 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Daniel Mateos-Moreno (0000-0001-5733-7198, Universidad de Málaga, autor correspondente), Paloma Bravo Fuentes (0000-0001-9190-2197, Universidad de Málaga) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 159-171 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal of Music Education (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0255-7614 • E-ISSN: 1744-795X |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02557614231196594 |
| OpenAlex | W4386543845 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 39 |
Despite being an unavoidable part of the music teaching profession, bureaucracy remains an under-studied and ill-defined topic in the research literature. However, its investigation may benefit the music teaching profession by re-thinking policy, informing music teacher education programmes and fostering a mutual understanding among music teachers and policymakers. Therefore, in the present study, we aimed to investigate the understandings of Spanish music teachers in relation to bureaucracy and to compare these with the views of the teachers of other subjects in primary education. The perspective of purposefully selected music teachers were thus explored in-depth and contrasted with the views of their counterparts in a multiple case-study design. Our findings contribute a taxonomy of bureaucracy in the music teaching profession. Additionally, we conclude that the views of our music teacher participants on bureaucracy are mainly negative and slightly more pessimistic than those of their counterparts. In discussing our results, we connect these views with the Weberian ‘iron cage’ of bureaucracy and Arendt’s ‘government of Nobody’ as a substitute for democracy in governing education. Finally, we hypothesise a dystopic future of deprofessionalisation as a result of these primary music teachers’ declared lack of control over their own organisational tasks
Art · Bureaucracy · Music education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Diverse Music Education Insights · Law · Music Education and Analysis · Musicians’ Health and Performance · Psychology
International Handbook of Research on Teachers' Beliefs
Focus on qualitative methods . The use of quotes in qualitative research
Case Study Research
Education and Bureaucracy
Handbook of Administrative History
Documents and Bureaucracy
The subject ‘music’ from inside versus outside the music teaching profession
Isolation at the workplace
Teacher bureaucracy in Portugal
Why (not) be a music teacher? Exploring pre-service music teachers’ sources of concern regarding their future profession
Two cheers for school bureaucracy
Cultural change and learning organizations
Critique of Hegel's `Philosophy of Right.'
Internal quality assurance
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Towards ‘Embedded Non-creative Work’? Administration, digitisation and the recorded music industry
Mediterranean and total Bureaucracies
James Mill, political writings
Politics, Markets and America's Schools
What Is Bureaucracy
The ‘Iron Cage’ of Educational Bureaucracy
Is ‘School Effectiveness’ Anti-Democratic
Using thematic analysis in psychology
The origins of totalitarianism
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Race, Region, and Representative Bureaucracy
Max Weber's Two Conceptions of Bureaucracy
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| Altamente citado | Não |