What is good music education? Challenging epistemological assumptions in discourses of quality in music education : Keynote. 26th conference of the Nordic Network for Research in Music Education.

• Quality in music education nowadays is, like all education, strongly governed by standards for quality assurance. These quality processes have been criticized for being part of the new public management mind set. From a discursive perspective the endeavor to implement quality assurance in education can be read as a disciplining technology. Parallel to this management, the concept of quality in music education is also strongly governed by institutionalized practices: as formalized education in preschools, schools, culture schools and universities, or as informal learning spaces in spare time settings or through internet. These institutionalized practices, here understood as legitimate social groupings or discursive practices, are grounded in shared concepts and routines which create antagonistic ideas of quality in music education. Based on previous and ongoing research in Swedish educational settings I will in this presentation unfold, problematize and challenge epistemological assumptions in hegemonic discourses of quality in today's music education.

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

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

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