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Arts Education In Swedish Teacher Training – What’S At Stake?, Monica Lindgren, Claes Ericsson
Arts Education In Swedish Teacher Training – What’S At Stake?, Monica Lindgren, Claes Ericsson
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Swedish teacher education has undergone several reforms in recent decades aimed at incorporating teacher education into the university setting and strengthening the teaching profession. In view of earlier research that has shown how arts education in schools is ruled by dominant knowledge ideologies, the purpose of the project is to critically scrutinize current discourses related to arts learning and arts education in teacher education. The study is based on social constructionist theory and data were collected by various means, including 19 focus group interviews with teachers and students at 10 Swedish teacher education institutes.
Our analysis shows that an academic …