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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962-, et al.
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Characteristics and impacts of live music interventions on health and wellbeing for children, families, and health care professionals in paediatric hospitals : A scoping review
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 18:1
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: The objective of this scoping review is to compile and examine characteristics and impacts of live music interventions on the health and wellbeing of children, families, and health care professionals in paediatric hospital care.METHODS: We searched four scientific databases for peer-reviewed publications of empirical studies of all study designs. The first author screened the publications, with spot-checks for eligibility by the second and third authors. Data extraction and quality assessment were made by the first author with support from the second and third. Additionally, the included studies were screened for quality appraisal. The analysis followed an inductive, interpretive approach for synthesis.RESULTS: Quantitative features were screened and compiled, and qualitative inductive analyses of findings were elaborated into categories connected to research questions. The reported impacts were thematized through emergent features of importance and prerequisites beneficial for successful interventions. Recurrent outcomes present themes of positive affect, copingand reduced hospitalization. Emotional regulation, play and participation, age, session design, adaptivity, and familiarity present benefits, barriers, and facilitators for outcomes.CONCLUSIONS: Findings from collected empirical research display philosophy, practice, and relations as keys for characteristics, impacts, and implications of live music interventions in paediatric hospital care. The communicative aspects of music appear at the core of importance.
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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962-
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”It’s so easy to feel inadequate" : music teachers’ discussions regarding music education and social aims
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning. - Oslo : Norges musikkhøgskole. - 1504-5021. ; 19, s. 25-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the present article is to discuss the social aspects of music education for children and young people. Societal challenges such as social vulnerability and increasing segregation have highlighted general educational aims such as fostering democracy, equality, social justice and inclusion. The empirical material comprises a focus group interview with teachers working in El Sistema, a music education programme that has both musical and social aims. Analyses of verbal constructions reveal the way teachers negotiate and legitimise their work through affective repertoires and subject positioning. A discursive practice is constructed, in which two different, often incompatible, positions emerge: the music teacher and the social worker. Among different subject positions available, those specifically constructed to fit the claim of a social commission prevail. Finally, the study ́s result is discussed in relation to the conceptualisation of music education as a social practice, and music teachers ́ understanding of their professional commitment towards both social and musical learning.
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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962
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"Konstnären", "fostraren", "tjänstemannen" och "rebellen": Musiklärares dramaturgiska framträdanden kring musikundervisning, social rättvisa och demokrati.
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Research in Music Education. - 2703-8041. ; 1:1, s. 29-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article intends to explore how some Swedish music teachers present their teaching in relation to democracy and social justice. Present-day social issues such as socio-economic vulnerability and ever more segregated schools have accentuated the need for critical reflection on social and democratic aspects in all teaching. This also has consequences for music educational practices. During two focus group interviews with Swedish music teachers from both the community school of music and arts and elementary school, the organisation of the teaching practice, as well as the teachers’ respective opportunities and challenges in relation to their specific contextual social and democratic issues are discussed. With the aid of dramaturgical theory and interview analysis it is shown how the teachers’ joint discussions make space for four social roles in relation to those themes: the artist, the fosterer, the civil servant and the rebel. In spite of some similarities in the staging opportunities of the two different music educational contexts, some differences appear in terms of the dramaturgical significance of the respective roles, as well as the force of the connections between them. In both contexts, still a common ambivalence is displayed in the perception of democracy and social justice in relation to the very practical task of teaching music. Following the article’s results in relation to social justice, the music teachers’ opportunities for internal professional control and joint negotiation of their teaching task are discussed. The article thus advocates further reflection on the institutional structures and basic philosophical assumptions that appear to govern perceptions of music teaching, democracy and social justice in music educational practices at large.
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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962-
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”Liksom ett annat uppdrag” : iscensättning av social rättvisa i musikundervisningens retorik och praktik
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to identify, describe, and problematize constructions of social justice in Swedish music education. The thesis has an ethnographic design, and presents four empirical studies. The studies, in the shape of four scientific articles, emblematise musical practices in community schools of music and art, as well as in elementary schools. The conceptual framework of the concept of social justice precipitates a focus on the prime object of study, El Sistema. Music education as organised by El Sistema explicitly communicates social aims, and the programme operates in both Swedish community schools of music and art, and in elementary schools. All together, the empirical data consist of marketing material (films and written documents), observational field-notes and sound recordings from one semester’s fieldwork in a children’s music educational group (ages 7-9), as well as sound-recorded focus group interviews with music teachers from both community schools of music and art and elementary schools. Article I shows how different conceptions of music, children, emotions, and social transformation are constructed to legitimate El Sistema in the Swedish community schools of music and art. Here, the objects of study are films and written texts published on El Sistema’s Swedish website. Article II elaborates how musical agency is performed by participating children in relation to conceptions of music education and social justice constructed in the educational practice. Articles III and IV elaborate teachers’ negotiations and constructions of teacher roles and the educational task in relation to conceptions of social justice. Within a comprehensive social constructionist perspective, participants’ opportunities for action and negotiation, in practice, are perceived as determined by societal, institutional and local preconditions, and by overarching and established conceptions that are typical for certain eras. With this theoretical point of departure, both local and societal conceptions of the musical subject, its objectives, means, and aims, as well as conceptions about accessibility, equality, democracy and social justice, are constantly negotiated. Thus, apparently natural and established ideas can be problematized. Based on all studies’ results, relations between established conceptions, structural preconditions, and social relations are scrutinised from the way they influence performances of the music educational practice. The final discussion encompasses consequences for teachers’ ability to reflect, as well as children’s and young peoples’ meaning making through musical actions. The thesis’ critical perspective aims at evoking new questions, and generating new knowledge concerning the preconditions and the content of institutionally financed music education.
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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962-, et al.
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“The feelings have come home to me.” : Examining advertising films on the Swedish website of El Sistema
- 2016
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Ingår i: Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education. - : MDG Publications. - 1545-4517. ; 15:1, s. 188-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to analyze how the music educational program of El Sistema Sweden is advertised and legitimized through moving images. The films are a major part of the information on the Swedish national website of El Sistema and are supposed to contribute to the picture that the organization and its founders wish to market. The use of moving images and sounds, actors, backgrounds and environments, artefacts, and music in two short films are analyzed with the help of discursive tools from discourse theories, multimodal analysis, and pictorial semiotics. From a social constructionist perspective, and within a frame of contemporary debates within music education and philosophy of music, the article argues for the need to consider both governing moral values and the objectification of music when making claims for social development and integration through music education.
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- Kuuse, Anna-Karin, 1962-
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"We will fight Goliath" : Negotiation of space for musical agency in children's music education
- 2018
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Ingår i: Research Studies in Music Education. - : Sage Publications. - 1321-103X .- 1834-5530. ; 40:2, s. 140-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following a music philosophy debate deriving from the 1990s, this article puts the extra-musical and social outcomes of situated music educational practices at the fore. The Swedish replica of the choir and orchestra school El Sistema, a programme globally asserting social change and social impact, appeared useful for elaborating such outcomes in practice. Following this, the present study aims to empirically elaborate musical agency as an analytical concept to understand children’s experiences, while at the same time discussing musical agency in relation to a social discursive view on practice. A Swedish El Sistema children’s string orchestra was followed for three months and the material for analysis consists of audio recordings and observation notes from lessons, performances and family events, as well as documents surrounding the activities. Constructions of discipline, empowerment and space are revealed as affecting opportunities for musical agency. The study thus elaborates on discursive constraints and opportunities for agency negotiation while discussing social outcomes with and within music education.
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