Performing gender when music is, or is not, at stake – a meta-analysis on students’ adaption to discourse

• ABSTRACT In this article, a meta-analysis is conducted in order to explore how gender is constructed in relation to music classroom school discourses, in three qualitative studies. Conducting meta-analysis is a way of reflecting on data in new ways, and it is argued that it could be productive in creating new understandings of issues within the field of music education research. Theoretically, all three studies, as well as the reinterpretation, draw on social constructionism and the method is based on qualitative meta-analysis in the social sciences. The result of the analysis indicates that construction of gender is a matter of what is at stake in the music classroom – music or education.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Keyword

music education

gender

meta-analysis

discourse

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)