Music didactics as a quality case in music teacher education in the Nordic countries
Between 2006 and 2013, a project focusing on quality in music teacher education was conducted with Geir Johansen, Professor of Music Education at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
The study was characterised by a “bottom-up” perspective based on teachers', supervisors' and students' experiences and perceptions of deep versus surface learning, content choice and identity formation. Several articles and conference presentations, both joint and individual, have emerged from the project. See publications in PURE. The latest publication in press shows the importance of openness and opportunities for engagement as a basis for professional learning from a student perspective.
As a development of the above-mentioned project, a new study is running that has music education teachers' visions as an area of interest. The project is a collaboration between Finland, Norway and Sweden and involves Marja-Leena Juntunen from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The visions are related to how teachers organise their teaching, what they choose as content and how they offer students a way out into the dynamic world of work. Curricula as well as traditions in the three countries and in the different teaching traditions related to classrooms and instruments are related. A publication focusing on the curricula is available and a further one focusing on the visions will be published in 2016 in the International Journal of Music Education.
Articles on the project
Professors' visions of music teacher education
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International Journal of Music Education
Traversing the chiasm of lived teaching and learning experience External link.
Nordisk Musikkpedagogisk Forskning
Educating music teachers in the new millennium: multiculturalism, professionalism and music teacher education in the contemporary society: a report from a research and development project
Holistic quality learning in musikdidaktik from a student perspective External link.
Educating music teachers in the new millennium: multiculturalism, professionalism and music teacher education in the contemporary society: a report from a research and development project
Student music teachers' learning trajectories: a relational perspective External link.
Educating Music Teachers for the New Millennium: multiculturalism, professionalism and music teacher education in the contemporary society: a report from a research and development project
Visions of Research in Music Education
International Journal of Music Education
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