Christer Bouij:

To become a music teacher - a socialization process

The subject of this article is the socialization process of Swedish music teachers in their profession. A combination of interviews and questionnaires has been used as data sources. These have been carried out mainly before and after their music teacher training. The analysis process is qualitative and rests mainly on the interviews. This led to the role identity theory, which proved useful in casting light on the social ization process. Role identity is the way that an individual performs a particular social position.

The group of classmates is of great importance for socialization, through the education code principles for interpretation and action, which are collectively formed by the students. There is no doubt that the role of musician is accorded the higher status by the education code.

There are two professional roles, music teacher and musician, which the music teacher students can see themselves to be working with in the future. But they also have to decide upon musical comprehensiveness. This can, for the individual student, imply one or more musical genres or one or more instruments, for example playing the trumpct or the whole brass family. In an ordinary municipal music school a brass teacher has to be responsible for the whole brass family.