Assessment of Musical Knowledge

An ongoing project examines the effects of the recent educational reform as expressed in Lgr 11 (Swedish curriculum) on music education in primary school, with a specific focus on assessment in grade six.

A first interview survey has been carried out which reveals a number of dilemmas faced by music teachers: The new requirements vs. the teachers' own pedagogical ideals; The syllabus as a teaching guide vs. a threatened professional autonomy; An increased focus on the display of acquired knowledge vs. a reduced focus on learning, processes, reflection and understanding; A holistic approach vs. a narrower view of musical knowledge in terms of skills and facts; Teaching for documentation vs. teaching for learning. A nationwide survey based on the interview results will be conducted in the spring and an action research-oriented sub-study is planned for the 2014-2015 academic year where teachers are expected to work with dilemmas discovered in the first two sub-studies.

In addition, Cecilia Ferm Thorgersen is investigating and communicating assessment of dance education in upper secondary school together with Ninnie Andersson, doctoral student in pedagogy at the department.

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