ABSTRACT

This study aims to establish whether music teachers feel isolated at the workplace or not because only one music teacher is part of teaching staff in a primary school by reasons linked to the limited school budget. A nonexperimental quantitative research design was utilised in this study because two psychological scales have been applied, considering a random cluster sample, which is understood as a probability sampling because the number of participants has representativeness in the Spanish primary education system. Results demonstrate that music teachers work alone at schools, such that they have limited chances for interacting with other music educators at the workplace. In conclusion, job isolation is the turning point for understanding the motivational status of music teachers, at least in Spain. Given these findings, some practical implications are proposed herein.

摘要

本研究旨在确定音乐教师是否在工作场所感到孤立，因为由于学校预算有限，只有一名音乐教师是小学教学人员的一部分。本研究采用了非实验定量研究设计，因为考虑了随机集群样本，应用了两个心理量表，这被理解为概率抽样，因为参与者的数量在西班牙小学教育系统中具有代表性。结果表明，音乐教师在学校单独工作，因此他们在工作场所与其他音乐教育者互动的机会有限。总之，工作隔离是了解音乐教师动机状态的转折点，至少在西班牙是这样。鉴于这些发现，