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 External link.

Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education

Translating the impossible: listening, learning, and art External link.

Journal of Aesthetic Education

Estetisk kommunikation för inkludering och delaktighet External link.

Inkludering: möjligheter och utmaningar

Grundskolelevers lärande som estetisk kommunikation: Aspekter av översättning och delaktighet External link.

Kunskapande i dans

Lived music - multi-dimensional musical experience: Implications for music education External link.

Philosophy Study

Den kulturelle skolesekken: estetiska upplevelser för alla? External link.

Nordisk konferanse om forskning på Den kulturelle skolesekken

Social networking and democratic practices as spheres for innovative musical learning External link.

National Society for the Study of Education. Yearbook

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

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 External link.

Music, education and innovation: Festschrift for Sture Brändström

Pedagogical encounters in music: Thinking with Hannah Arendt External link.

European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education

The Music Teacher in the Nexus of Art Origin External link.

Finnish Journal of Music Education

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

European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education

The musical present: A polyphonic philosophical investigation External link.

Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning: årbok 17