Examination arrangement

Course content

The course has these main components: To make, play, experience and understand music and dance, in educational context, where critical thinking, craft, traditions, exploration and the student’s own resources are central.

The course will be an introduction to the subject Music, the way curriculums, guiding documents and educational practices are shaping it, for 1.-7. grade. It will be a particular focus on the youngest students in elementary school.

The work we all do with the course will be grounded in research-based knowledge, methods, practices, and theory. Teaching material and ways of working offer an opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and experience as a foundation for teaching and facilitating children and young peoples need for expression and artistic presence in global and local context, through music and dance. While playing and making music and dance, the student is given the opportunity to experience, understand and facilitate musical and dance-musical expressions in sensitive and knowledgeable ways. Digital tools, arts-based knowledge production, equity, diversity, and inclusive communities are consistent topics.

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

Teaching methods are shifting between groups, individual supervision, and lectures in a full class. This includes work with music, dance, educational and academic work. Students will participate in learning processes where they work with the production, interpretation, creation, and communication of music/dance/movement/text and develop knowledge, skills, and general competence in the field. This requires a great deal of individual work. The students will be supervised on parts of the work individually and in groups. Process-oriented and explorative teaching will be emphasized, as well as developing critical perspectives through student active working methods, to make, perform, experience and understand music and dance.

Compulsory assignments

• Obligatory course work according to course description

Further on evaluation

• 6 compulsory work requirements
• Attendance at lessons for activities that require collaboration: 80% of the total number of hours.
• Group submissions and individual tests: 100%

If attendance is too low compensational work might be given. The work requirements will be assessed as approved/not approved.

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 and other sources will be published on Blackboard before the start of the semester.

Credit reductions