Participants: 40 music teachers from diverse backgrounds, locations, ethnicities. Our participants represent teachers at all stages of their careers.

Method: Video Ethnographies

Our participants responded to a series of prompts about childhood and music teaching experiences in self-recorded video journals.

Data Analysis: All transcripts of the video ethnographies were transcribed verbatim and analyzed according to themes (musicality, spirituality, goodness, kindness, play, etc.)

Examples of coded data can been viewed in the appendix of our book.

*This study was reviewed by a University Institutional Review Board (IRB)