Culture–Criticism–Community
The research group Culture - Criticism - Community is an interdisciplinary and international research group that gathers researchers with a critical research interest.
The members of Culture – Criticism – Community are researchers with a critical research interest, both concerning education, cultural participation, arts education, community arts and arts communities. Further, the group focuses on studies of different cultural practices, critical approaches to education and dissemination, with a strong orientation towards communities and society. These ideas and values are explored through both traditional as well as arts-based research, often with participatory and collaborative approaches.
The CCC research group is interdisciplinary (with members from music, drama, and visual arts), inter-institutional and international. It embraces an active and inclusive research fellowship, and functions as an umbrella for several ongoing research projects and an incubator for new perspectives and projects.
Members of the group have been awarded several externally funded projects the last few years. By far, the largest project was «Music Teacher Education for the Future» (FUTURED 2019-2022), a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In this project, the researchers explored music in the new five-year teacher education from a perspective of change. Ongoing projects include studies of Sami music in teacher education, and collaboration between schools, music teachers, and preservice music teachers in authentic learning contexts beyond the ordinary practicum periods (MusikkPedLab).
CCC publishes extensively in both national and international journals. The group is also involved in relevant networks, and the members are actively engaging in various research disseminations and contact with communities and the public. Examples of the group’s research are presented and discussed in the podcast MusikkPed Podden (launched in 2023), where new episodes are published regularly.
Christophersen, C., Aróstegui, J.-L., Holdhus, K., Kenny, A., Knudsen, J. S., Lindgren, M., Väkevä, L. & Viig, T.G. (In press): Music teacher education for the future: Reflections on change. To be published in Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education 22(3)
Kvile, S. & Christophersen, C. (2023). Recognising intra-actions between music and pupils. Music Education Research 25(2), 205-215.
Bendik Fredriksen, Silje Valde Onsrud, Hanne Rinholm & Judy Lewis (2023) Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education, Music Education Research, DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2023.2210159
Viig, T.G., Onsrud, S.V., Lewis, J., Kvinge, Ø. & Christophersen, C. (2023). Developing visions for the future. A reflection on utopias in music teacher education. Visions of Research in Music Education 41(1), 1-17. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/vrme/vol41/iss1/2
Bjørnevoll, S. M. (2022). “We Never Got to Try That Experience of Total Chaos”: Exploring Preservice Music Teachers’ Agency in Teaching Practicum. Journal of Music Teacher Education, 0(0). https://doi-org.galanga.hvl.no/10.1177/10570837221137075
Holdhus, K., Christophersen, C., & Partti, H (2022). Soundtrapped? Socio-material perspectives on collaborative teaching within the music classroom. Research Studies in Music Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X221115978
Rinde, Felicity Katharine Burbridge (2022). Inclusive socio-musical spaces for newly arrived migrant children in a Norwegian primary school: Teacher and school leader perspectives. International Journal of Music Education 2022
When the Unforeseen is the Foreseen. Drama Perspectives on Using Rituals to Connect with People Living with Dementia (2022). Katrine Heggstad, DRAMA, When the Unforeseen is the Foreseen: Drama Perspectives on Using Rituals to Connect with People Living with Dementia: DRAMA: Vol 59, No 1 (idunn.no)
Stilla og ropet – kunstnerisk (ut)forskning gjennom fem elastiske byggekomponenter (2022) Tine Grieg Viig. Stemma og stilla i musikk og litteratur, CappelenDamm
The multiplicity of preservice music teachers' positioning in a participatory action research (2022)
Onsrud, Silje Valde;Fredriksen, Bendik; Rinholm, Hanne; Lindgren, Monica
Research Studies in Music Education
Who are the music student teachers in Norwegian generalist teacher education? A cross-sectional survey (2021)
Nysæther, Eyolf Thovsen;Christophersen, Catharina Renate;Sætre, Jon Helge
Nordic Research in Music Education
Music in the school life of newly arrived migrant children: potential paths to participation and belonging (2021)
Rinde, Felicity Katharine Burbridge;Kenny, Ailbhe
Music Education Research
Developing an understanding of intercultural music education in a Nordic setting (2021)
Rinde, Felicity Katharine Burbridge;Christophersen, Catharina Renate
Nordic Research in Music Education
Research projects
- Music Teacher Education for the Future
- Drama, demens og verdighet / Drama, Dementia and Dignity
- Barnetrinnelevar sitt forhold til musikk
- Music in primary schools and social inclusion of immigrant pupils in Norway
- Musikklærerstudenters perspektiv på egen utdanning
- Preservice music teachers as agents for change
- MineMixMusic
- Music teachers for the future: A longitudinal study of the transition from pre-service to in-service music teaching
