JULIE BEAUREGARD & ELIZABETH BUCURA
Julie Beauregard holds B.M., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music, where she also completed a graduate program in Ethnomusicology. Previously, Beauregard worked with undergraduate and graduate students while a member of the Music Education instructional faculties of the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, and Oregon State University, and has facilitated online Music Education courses for Boston University. She currently teaches at Penfield High School in the Rochester, NY area, in her 11th year of K-12 teaching practice. Her research explores embodied knowledge, alternative assessments, teacher identity, and popular and world musics.
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Elizabeth Bucura is Assistant Professor of Music Education in the Department of Music Teaching and Learning at the Eastman School of Music, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and supervises student teachers. She holds a B.M. and M.M. from the University of Southern Maine and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Her 2013 dissertation on music teacher role and identity was nationally recognized by the Council for Research in Music Education. Her research focuses on identity, creativity, secondary general music, and community music education.
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“To Thine Own Self Be True”: One Music Educator’s Transition from Higher Education Faculty Member to High School Teacher
This dramaturgically-inspired telling of an autoethnographic narrative evokes theatre-in-the-round imagery to depict one of the two researcher’s significant and elective professional transition from holding a tenure-track university faculty position to a high school teaching position. Given the scarcity of literature addressing such a professional shift, we present one individual’s thought process, emotions, and actions leading up to, during, and following the decision to make this transition over a one-and-a-half-year time span. Researcher concerns include narrow career trajectory conceptualizations presented in doctoral music education programs, balancing overall wellness with professional ambitions, and hierarchical constructs of the education system and career advancement.