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Väkevä, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi; Ilmola-Sheppard, Leena – Music Education Research, 2022
This study presents an analysis of hidden elitism in music education through the free choice argument -- that individuals are fundamentally free to choose to study music -- as a meritocratic power structure. Qualitative Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is applied to understand music education as a social system with a special structure in which its…
Descriptors: School Choice, Music Education, Power Structure, Social Systems