Higher Education Piano Teachers’ Perspectives to Imagery: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Musicians often engage in imagery to improve their practice and performance, however, there are experiences that shape preferences and varying approaches to how they engage with imagery and how they may teach imagery. Mental practice and imagery research offers varied nomenclature that span motor-sensory adaptation, refinement, expressive lucidity and goal-orientation that point to self-regulatory concepts in music learning. Exploring what teachers may conceive imagery to be, how teachers formulate upon their early understandings of imagery and how they currently engage with imagery in impactful teaching practice from personal experience is an under-researched area of investigation. This phe..