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Direct linkVäkevä, 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
Ikävalko, Elina; Brunila, Kristiina – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
Researchers often find themselves reflecting on either/or questions. This article examines the multiple discursive reality of gender equality, a topic comprising several juxtapositions connected to either/or thinking which also provide the topic its legitimacy. The examples come from the context of gender equality work and gender equality policy,…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Feminism
Peer reviewedNuutinen, Pirjo – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1997
Reviews the theoretical background, methodology, and preliminary results of a planned study of what teachers think about power to be conducted in three stages with kindergarten and comprehensive school teachers in Finland. Preliminary results from 22 teachers identify power most clearly as a social category. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Professional Autonomy
