Designing Personal Career for Future Music Educators: Aspirations, Opportunities, Determination

The period between school graduation and coming to the working world is getting into the focus of researchers’ attention with increasing frequency. Researchers have analysed issues related to motivation to choose an educator's profession and those related to career planning. Personal career is understood nowadays as a personal achievement, continuity of constant work and a connected sequence of experience gained in different roles played throughout the entire lifetime. Still, issues related to future music teachers’ personal careers and career choices have not yet been evaluated in a wider context and they are the main issue of the research.