Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe

293 Pages·2019·6.824 MB·English

by  David G. Hebert, Torunn Bakken Hauge

Advancing Music Education in
Northern Europe
Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique
organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional de-
velopment of music teachers in the Nordic and Baltic nations. At the same
time, the book offers reflections on how music education and approaches
to the training of music teachers have changed across recent decades, a pe-
riod of significant innovations. In a time where international partnerships
appear to be threatened by a recent resurgence in protectionism and nation-
alism, this book also more generally demonstrates the value of formalized
international cooperation in the sphere of higher education. The setting for
the discussion, Northern Europe, is a region arguably of great importance
to music education for a number of reasons, seen, for instance, in Norway’s
ranking as the “happiest nation on earth”, the well-known success of
Finland’s schools in international-comparative measures of student achieve-
ment, how Sweden has grappled with its recent experience as “Europe’s top
recipient of asylum seekers per capita”, and Estonia’s national identity as
a country born from a “Singing Revolution”, to name but a few examples.
The contributors chronicle how the Nordic Network for Music Education
(NNME) was founded and developed, document its impact, and demon-
strate how the eight nations involved in this network – Norway, Iceland,
Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – are making
unique contributions of global significance to the field of music education.
David G. Hebert is a professor of music with Western Norway University
of Applied Sciences, and in 2018 he became the manager of NNME. He
is also a professor II in Sweden in the Malmo Academy of Music (Lund
University), and a Hanban Visiting Scholar in the Central Conservatory,
Beijing, China. A widely published and cited researcher, he has also held po-
sitions with universities in the USA, Finland, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil,
and New Zealand, and has directed research projects on six continents.
Dr.  Hebert is a frequent keynote speaker for conferences, and an editorial
board member with such scholarly journals as Arts Education Policy Review
and Music E ducation Research. His writings appear in over 30 different pro-
fessional journals, and his books – as author, editor, or co-editor – include
Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools, Theory and Method
in Historical Ethnomusicology, Patriotism in Nationalism in Music Educa-
tion, International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in
Japanese and Korean Societies, and Music Glocalization: Heritage and Inno-
vation in a Digital Age. He has also published chapters in Oxford Handbook
of Music Education, Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Ed-
ucation, Sociology and Music Education, and Multicultural Perspectives in
Music Education (vols. 1 and 2), and with William Coppola he is now co-
authoring World Music Pedagogy: Music in Higher Education (forthcoming,
Routledge).
Torunn Bakken Hauge is a professor of music education with Western
Norway University of Applied Sciences, where she has taught for more than
four decades. She is a founder and managing coordinator of the NNME,
which has government funding for cooperative projects across all Nordic
and Baltic countries, and celebrated its 20-year history in 2017. Since 1990,
she has also managed the Nordplus-funded Teacher Education Network,
which supports interdisciplinary arts projects in teacher education. A
Nordic pioneer in the field of rhythmic music pedagogy, she is a producer
of the video Rytmisk musikkpedagogikk i grundskolen (1999), first author
of the book Rytmisk musikkpedagogikk i grundskolen (2000), and execu-
tive producer of the pedagogical CD Kotokaka rytmisk musikkpedagogikk
(2002). She has also published research articles in English in such journals
as Signum Temporis, International Journal of Education and the Arts, and a
chapter in the book Musikk – Mulighetenes fag (2007). Additionally, she is a
singer in a professional early music vocal quartet.
Advancing Music Education in
Northern Europe
Edited by
David G. Hebert and
Torunn Bakken Hauge
First published 2019
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Names: Hebert, David G. | Hauge, Torunn Bakken.
Title: Advancing music education in Northern Europe / edited by
David G. Hebert and Torunn Bakken Hauge.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038091 | ISBN 9781138486263 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781351045995 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Music—Instruction and study—Europe, Northern.
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: advancing music education in Northern Europe 1
TORUNN BAkkEN HAUGE AND DAVID G. HEBERT
2 Master’s seminars in music education across 18 years:
inclusion, equality and democracy as lived experience 38
CECILIA FERM ALMqVIST
3 Reflections on research collaborations: a call for Nordic
research on music education, sustainability, and democracy 50
EVA SæTHER AND ADRIANA DI LORENZO TILLBORG
4 Musical performance and tacit self-censorship 64
TIRI BERGESEN SCHEI
5 Music, universality and globalization: some challenges for
music education in the decades to come 81
GEIR JOHANSEN
6 An Icelandic perspective on the Nordic music education community 92
HELGA RUT GUDMUNDSDOTTIR
7 Musician and teacher: higher popular music education in a
Danish perspective 107
LARS BRINCk
8 Advancing music education via Nordic cooperation: equity and
equality as central concepts in Finland 119
MARJA HEIMONEN AND DAVID G. HEBERT
vi Contents
9 Bridging the past, present and future in Estonian music education 141
ANU SEPP, URVE LääNEMETS AND kRISTI kIILU
10 A paradigm shift in Latvian music teacher education: a
selection of research experience in the period, 2008–2017 155
MāRA MARNAUZA AND SANITA MADALāNE
11 Music teacher education challenges: national and international
perspectives in Lithuania 175
JOLANTA LASAUSkIENė
12 Emotional imitation method in the context of Lithuanian music
education 192
LOLITA NAVICkIENE, ASTA RAUDUVAITE, GIEDRė GABNYTE
AND DAVID G. HEBERT
13 Integrated learning of music and science: reception of Björk’s
Biophilia Project in the Nordic countries 222
BåRD VåGSHOLM HUSBY AND DAVID G. HEBERT
14 Conclusion: learning from two decades of music
education leadership 247
DAVID G. HEBERT AND TORUNN BAkkEN HAUGE
Index 277
Contributors
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist (PhD) is a full professor of music education at
Luleå University of Technology, and associate professor in education
at Södertörn University College. She graduated in 2004. Her research
focuses upon democracy and inclusion in diverse music educational set-
tings. She has presented her work internationally at (music) educational
conferences and in well-known scientific journals.
Lars Brinck (PhD) is an associate professor and the Head of Research and
Development at Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, and the
Danish academy of pop, jazz, and electronica. Research interests include
jamming, learning, and educational management, preferably from a situ-
ated learning analytic perspective. Brinck also holds extensive experience
as a composer and recording pop/jazz pianist.
Giedrė Gabnyte is a pianist, and winner of international competitions, who
graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT).
In 2014, she received a Doctor degree in Music Education from Šiauliai
University. Since 2011, she has been associate professor in the Depart-
ment of Pedagogy at LAMT. She is an active figure in the Lithuanian
concert life as well as in music research activities. Her research interests
include general music education and the training of young pianists.
Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir is an associate professor of music education at
the University of Iceland, School of Education. She teaches courses in
early childhood music methods as well as music pedagogy for elementary
and middle school. Her research focuses on young children’s musical per-
ception and development.
Marja Heimonen  has lectured for several years at Sibelius Academy-
University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland, where she has coordinated doc-
toral and postdoctoral seminars, and served as the NNME Institutional
Coordinator. She is widely published in the field of music education phi-
losophy, particularly concerning the issue of legal rights to music and
music education.
viii Contributors
Bård Vågsholm Husby holds a master’s degree in music education from Western
Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. He has recently been work-
ing as a Waldorf School teacher in Bergen, Norway. Bård actively plays the
saxophone, guitars, and electronic instruments across several genres.
Geir Johansen (PhD) is a professor emeritus in music education at the
Norwegian Academy of Music. His research interests include all sides of
the relationship between music education and society, of which he pub-
lishes and presents regularly. His work experience includes teaching on
all levels from PhD to elementary music education.
Kristi Kiilu (PhD) is a professor and the Head of the Music Education
Institute in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She received
her PhD degree (Doctor of Philosophy) from the University of Helsinki,
Faculty of Behavioural Sciences. Her fields of research are culture and
society, and education. In 2011, she was awarded the Heino Liimets
award for the best-published doctoral thesis in the National Competition
of Educational Sciences.
Urve Läänemets is an assistant professor at the Estonian Academy of Music
and Theatre, teaching English and German language, and an author of 15
school textbooks and around 180 articles. Research fields include linguo-
didactics, educational policy, and curriculum theory and practice. Currently
she is also working as an advisor for the Estonian Ministry of Education.
Jolanta Lasauskienė is a doctor of social sciences (PhD) and professor of
music education at the Department of Music, Lithuanian University of
Educational Sciences. Her research interests include music teacher edu-
cation, activity and competences of a music teacher, project management
of music education innovations as well as strategies of developing inter-
cultural identity through music activity.
Sanita Madalāne (PhD) has more than ten years of experience as a lecturer
in higher education institutions, and has worked as the Head of Research
Department, coordinating editor, and reviewer for Riga Teacher Training
and Educational Management Academy. Currently she is the Principal
at Sala Secondary School and assistant professor at Turība University in
Latvia.
Māra Marnauza is a professor at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music,
and holds a PhD in music pedagogy. She is the founder, conductor, and
artistic director of the winners of international choir competitions –
chamber choir FORTIUS (1985) and female choir BALTA (1999). She
has published many scientific articles and a monograph Conducting
Methodology.
Lolita Navickiene (PhD in social sciences, education) is an associate pro-
fessor at the LAMT, Department of Education, and an author of the
“Method of Emotional Imitation”, working on the subject of early and
Contributors ix
secondary music education. She is also the founder of Sveikutis, a musi-
cal/educational health promotion school for pregnant women, children,
and adults.
Asta Rauduvaite (doctor of social sciences, educational science) is a professor
and the Head of the Department of Music at the Faculty of Education,
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Her research interests
include music teacher education and integration of popular music in
the process of education. Rauduvaite has published numerous articles
in reviewed periodical, continuous, or occasional scientific publications,
in the reviewed publications referred in the international databases in-
cluded into the list approved by the Lithuanian Research Council, as well
as in the publications included into the list approved by the Department
of Research and Studies. She is a member of the editorial board of the
collection of reviewed research articles “Problems in Music Pedagogy”
(Latvia).
Eva Sæther is a professor of music education at Malmö Academy of Music
(MAM), Lund University and Docent at University of the Arts, Helsinki.
She has developed a research profile that focuses on intercultural per-
spectives on musical learning and creativity(ies) and is currently heading
the music education research department at MAM.
Tiri Bergesen Schei is a full professor of music education at the Centre for
Arts, Culture and Communication, Western Norway University of Ap-
plied Sciences. Her research focuses on identity formation and vocal
expressions in the life span from early childhood to adulthood, with a
particular interest in how to prevent performers from self-censorship and
voice shame.
Anu Sepp is an associate professor of music pedagogy at the Estonian Acad-
emy of Music and Theatre, and a researcher at University of Helsinki.
She holds a PhD (educational science, University of Helsinki) and MA
(music education, choir conducting, Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre). Her research interests include teacher education and music ed-
ucation didactics; she is the author of numerous articles and music books.
Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg, a music educator with more than ten years of
experience, is currently a PhD candidate in music education at MAM,
Lund University. Her research interests include democratic music edu-
cation, inclusion, individual abilities, migration, policy processes, and
discourses, especially regarding Art and Music Schools.