Meetings with the FUTURED Scientific Advisory Board

This spring, the FUTURED researchers and the Scientific Advisory Board have met online to present, discuss and reflect together on important issues regarding each study, work packages and the overall project. Each meeting had its own focus, where the work package leaders, researchers, guest researchers and scientific advisory board members shared development from the studies, … Read more

FUTURED researchers represented at music education conference in Uganda

Late April 2021, FUTURED researchers Bendik Fredriksen and Hanne Rinholm presented results from their ongoing study at the third biannual music education conference in Kampala, Uganda. The conference is part of an ongoing international collaboration project between the music departments at OsloMet and Kyambogo University in Kampala. Due to the pandemic, the conference was held … Read more

Meet the researchers: Øystein Røsseland Kvinge

Øystein Kvinge is Associate Professor in music at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. In this post, you will get to know him and his recent work, as a teacher educator, researcher and performing artist. Happy easter to all of our readers, hope you are safe and well! Hello, I am Øystein Kvinge At … Read more

Meet the researchers: Jan Sverre Knudsen

Jan Sverre Knudsen is Professor of music at the Institute of Early Childhood Education, Oslo Metropolitan University. Before his academic career he worked as a music therapist in special education and as a social worker in youth psychiatry. His research interests are related to various sub-disciplines of current musicology: music therapy, ethnomusicology, music education and … Read more

News from WP1: Looking for values in curriculum plans

Researchers in Work package 1, Study 2, are looking at how current values and ideologies are embedded in guiding documents. Jan Sverre Knudsen and Silje Valde Onsrud have collected local education plans for music in generalist teacher education. So far, more than 60 plans have been collected from all Norwegian institutions providing this training. The … Read more