ERIC Number: EJ1386119
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-1461-3808
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Recognising Intra-Actions of Music and Pupil
Music Education Research, v25 n2 p205-215 2023
Music is deeply entangled with human activity and can play various roles in our lives, also in the lives of children. A large part of children's day-to-day life in Norway takes place within a school context. However, research on children's musical lives within a primary school context is scarce, and there is little knowledge of how pupils engage and interact with music throughout their school day. Building on classroom observations of 4th graders in a Norwegian primary school, this article addresses the intra-actions of pupil(s) and music(s) at school from a posthuman and new materialist perspective. Through a diffractive reading of data and a 'thinking with theory' approach, we investigate how pupils and music intra-act within material-discursive school practices. Our results show that the intra-actions of music(s) and pupil(s) are connected to the norms and rules regulating the classroom and that these understandings have material effects.
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Foreign Countries, Humanism, Music, Interaction, Cognitive Style, Music Activities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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