Berättelsen under deras fötter - DiVA

There is no straightforward relation of cause and effect between personal
experience and professional attitude, and indeed there are certain
differences between the teachers in this respect. However, there is a vital
relation in that what the teachers have derived from their own musical
experiences – pleasure and play, skill, a sense of community, outlet for
emotion – is what they want to pass on to the pupils. When this basic
attitude to music comes into conflict with the teacher’s work, there appears
another, joint discourse which is considered distinctive of contemporary
life.Accordingly, the second part of the discussion takes up the theme of
the individual in the centre, both in education – where the focus is on the
pupil’s resources, requirements and need to assume responsibility – and
in society as a whole, where such values as freedom of choice have acquired
greater importance than collective ones. There is also discussion of the
implications for music teaching – involving the school’s possibility of
being a place for encounter and communication, for conducting a reflective
dialogue between different cultures and periods, without neglect of the
pupils’ own experiences and without any attempt to refine the pupils’
musical and cultural preferences.
The discussion concludes with reflections on the carrying out of the
study and on further research.
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