Aesthetic Communication and Democracy

For several years, concepts such as music, musical learning, music education, inclusion, participation, communication and democracy have been explored from phenomenological philosophical perspectives, with direct or indirect links to practice and policy documents.

Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Michelle Dufrenne, Käthe Meyer-Drawe and Martin Langeveld are philosophers who have been used to give meaning to the concepts and imply what music can be, experienced, learned, taught, understood in relation to policy documents, communicated and make the world manageable in a democratic society. Also, how musical learning can be understood as aesthetic communication has been studied, including in relation to John Dewey's view of democracy. Openness, awareness, curiosity, mutual respect, translation and reflection are concepts that recur to guide the above pedagogical processes.

Articles on the project

The music classroom – a local place and a public space

Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education

Translating the impossible: listening, learning, and art

Journal of Aesthetic Education

Estetisk kommunikation för inkludering och delaktighet

Inkludering: möjligheter och utmaningar

Grundskolelevers lärande som estetisk kommunikation: Aspekter av översättning och delaktighet

Kunskapande i dans

Lived music - multi-dimensional musical experience: Implications for music education

Philosophy Study

Den kulturelle skolesekken: estetiska upplevelser för alla?

Nordisk konferanse om forskning på Den kulturelle skolesekken

Social networking and democratic practices as spheres for innovative musical learning

National Society for the Study of Education. Yearbook

Multi-dimensional musical experience in primary schools: a collaborative action study

Research Commission: Proceedings of the 23rd International Seminar on Research in Music Education

Inclusion and involvement: Special needs in music education from a life-world-phenomenological approach

Music, education and innovation: Festschrift for Sture Brändström

Pedagogical encounters in music: Thinking with Hannah Arendt

European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education

The Music Teacher in the Nexus of Art Origin

Finnish Journal of Music Education

Cultural Citizenship through aesthetic communication in Swedish schools: democracy, inclusion and equality in the face of assessment policies

European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education

The musical present: A polyphonic philosophical investigation

Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning: årbok 17