News from WP3: Developing collaborative, innovative and interactive music education practices

The researchers in work package 3 are currently busy with data generation and analysis.

Work package 3 aims at developing collaborative, innovative and interactive music education practices together with schools.

Researchers Kari Holdhus and Catharina Christophersen have finished generating data in the music classroom in study 5. They have collaborated with a musician, three teachers, and four pre-service teachers about creating a digital compositions, where lower secondary school pupils created their own songs using a digital audio workstation (DAW).

Photo by Catharina Christophersen

Postdoc researcher Tine Grieg Viig is planning data generation for study 6. Through an action research approach, she is collaborating with a music teacher to try out how different digital tools can provide new access points for music education in the 21st century. Aiming at an exploration of opportunities offered through including the virtual space of gaming in music education, cycle 1 in this project is now on its steps to get started.