MusTed is based at NTNU, Department of Teacher Education, and includes members across institutions. MusTed is one of the few Norwegian research environments that has made a mark nationally and internationally in relation to music and technology in schools and education. Locally, the group’s research has had a decisive impact on course development and practice within teacher education at NTNU.

With teacher education as its starting point, the group places strong emphasis on music, technology, and teaching and learning in the context of school, subject, art, the teaching profession, and professional practice. At the same time, the group acknowledges and articulates a broader relationship between music, digital technology, meaning, and learning than what is formalized within school settings – including how such non-school contexts and practices relate to education.

The group’s members are involved in concrete projects that collectively encompass music teaching and learning, music sociology, and music-related health and well-being. Based on this, the group aims to produce knowledge relevant to childhood and schooling, profession and professional practice, culture and society, and music as both art and academic subject. With a thematic area of international relevance, the research group aims to publish at least 50% of its output in English.

The research group is a continuation of the network MusTed: Music Technology in Didactic Practice, which between 2018 and 2020 carried out an anthology project led by Øyvind Johan Eiksund. This project resulted in the scholarly anthology Music Technology in Education – Channeling and Challenging Perspectives, which became the first publication in the Musped:Research series.

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