A Priori Themes and Sub-Themes Participant 1 (Irish) Participant 2 (Irish) Particiapant 3 (Irish) Total Irish Participant 4 (American) Participant

t 4 (American) Participant 5 (American) Total American

Previous Musical Experience (PME)

Positive + 4 1 2 7 3 3 6
Negative - 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
In School (S) 2 5 6 13 7 6 13
Privately (P) 3 17 11 31 5 3 8

TOTAL 10 23 19 52 16 12 28

Classroom Experience
Positive + 2 11 5 18 3 2 5
Negative - 5 3 0 8 6 4 10
Listening (L) 1 2 2 5 2 1 3
Responding (R ) 6 3 2 11 7 2 9
Composing (C ) 3 3 4 10 0 6 6
Performing (P) 1 4 4 9 7 10 17
Methodology/Pedagogy (M) 1 8 0 9 10 13 23
Resource (Re) 1 3 3 7 5 2 7
Assessment (A) 0 0 1 1 10 1 11
Success (Ss) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Challenge (Ch) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

TOTAL 20 37 22 79 51 41 92

Initial Teacher Education

Positive + 0 12 3 15 8 2 10
Negative - 5 2 9 16 1 1 2
Performing (P) 2 4 0 6 4 1 5
Listening (L) 1 1 0 2 1 1 2
Responding (R ) 1 2 0 3 0 0 0
Composing (C ) 2 1 0 3 0 0 0
Methdology/Pedagogy (M) 1 1 0 2 6 6 12
Resource (Re) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Assessment (A) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Challenge (Ch) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2

TOTAL 12 24 13 49 21 12 33

Teacher Experience
Positive + 0 0 0 0 13 1 14
Negative - 3 3 1 7 7 12 19
Challenge (Ch) 0 2 3 5 13 16 29
Success (Ss) 0 0 1 1 4 0 4
Assessment (A) 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
Resource (Re) 0 0 2 2 8 10 18
Methodology/Pedagogy (M) 0 1 0 1 2 0 2

TOTAL 3 6 7 16 49 39 88