Course content

Practical musical work is the basis for everything done in the subject. The main components are: Creating, playing, experiencing and understanding music and dance, in didactic perspective, where critical thinking, craftsmanship, traditions, exploration and the students' own resources and different backgrounds are central to producing knowledge.

The subject discusses the school subject music as it is for grades 1-7 in the current year curriculum, didactic work and research linked to these steps. music technology, art-based learning, the student as a resource, equality, diversity and inclusive community are recurring themes.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate will develop knowledge about

• Their own, local, and global music educational values and perspectives
• Critical thinking, arts-based research, and exploration as ways of producing knowledge.
• Local and global music traditions and crafts
• Dance is a creative and embodied part of musical ways of expressing.
• The subject of Music according to current curricula and other documents of governance

Skills

The candidate should develop skills in

• Making and performing music and dance
• Planning, leading, and instructing bigger and smaller groups in playing, singing, and dancing together.
• Understanding their own, students, local and global artistic processes, values, and practices
• Critically inquire, explore, and perform their own practices within music and education in school.

General competence

The candidate will develop competence in

• Understanding and strengthening the art subjects, and socially engaged teachers’ roles and potentials in school and society.
• Participating actively and constructively in cooperation with other peers
• Independently and continuously develop their own practice.

Learning methods and activities

The teaching methods change between group teaching, lectures and group work. The students will participate in a learning process where they develop knowledge, skills and general competence in the subject by working with the production, interpretation and dissemination of music. This includes a large degree of personal effort. Students will receive guidance on parts of the work individually and in groups. Emphasis is placed on process-oriented teaching and the development of critical perspectives, with student-active forms of work with music making, creation and exploration as core elements.

Compulsory assignments

• Obligatory course work according to course description

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

An interest for, and/or some knowledge/competence in singing, playing, dancing or musicproduction

Required previous knowledge

As the required previous knowledge according to the study program.

Course materials

Literature list will be published on Blackboard.

Credit reductions