The Social Organization of Post-Secondary Music Students' Work and Health

An Institutional Ethnography Protocol

Bibliographic Data

ID2411667
AuthorsJeffrey Sabo (0000-0002-6649-5611), Mona Oikarinen (0000-0002-4260-9143), Suzanne Wijsman (0000-0002-9067-6586), David Peacock (0000-0001-9699-6110), Peter Visentin (0000-0002-0296-1054), Liliana S Araújo (0000-0002-5601-0203), Kyle Zavitz (0000-0002-1269-7082), Christine Guptill (0000-0002-5080-2672)
Year2024
Volume23
Publication date2024-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/16094069241232344
OpenAlexW4392924438
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited43

Researchers have found that many post-secondary music students suffer from physical and mental health issues. However, researchers have mainly studied these problems at the individual level, with little investigation of how music students' work is shaped by the coordinating effects of policies, texts, and discourses at and beyond their local site. This paper describes a protocol for an international project that will explore the health of music students in the context of their daily work. Using an institutional ethnography approach, we will examine the social organization of music students' work at three universities: two in Canada and one in Australia. This will be the first set of studies that use institutional ethnography specifically for the purpose of understanding how the social organization of music students' work shapes their health. Data will be collected using several methods common to institutional ethnography: interviews, focus groups, observations, and collecting texts. Data analysis will begin during the data collection process and proceed in two fluid stages. The first stage will involve a detailed investigation of the pertinent work activities at each music school. The second will involve linking that work to specific social relations within and beyond the institution. After data analysis has been completed at all three sites, findings will be compared to one another to identify commonalities and differences in how students' work is organized. Findings of the entire project may inform policy-making and lead to positive change at the institutions studied, as well as others where similar social organization may occur. The novel approach described here will provide opportunities to expand current knowledge about music students' work and health beyond what has been learned through approaches that focus on students' individual behaviours and attributes

Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Institution · Participant observation · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Diverse Music Education Insights · Engineering · Musicians’ Health and Performance · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Psychology

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