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Troubling Certainty: Narrative Possibilities for Music Education

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Narrative Inquiry in Music Education

As I read the narrative accounts in the previous chapters of this book, I found myself caught into the stories of the lives represented on the pages. As someone with little knowledge of music and music education, I felt filled with wonder about what it meant to live a life …

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Clandinin, D.J. (2009). Troubling Certainty: Narrative Possibilities for Music Education. In: Barrett, M.S., Stauffer, S.L. (eds) Narrative Inquiry in Music Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9862-8_19

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