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Neoliberal education policies – viewing students’ life as human capital, economic investment for the labour market and consumer power – may increase students’ workload in higher education. In this mixed methods study, we ...

Many professional musicians would describe their careers as somewhat different to the careers they imagined when they were students. This study sought to understand the relationships between musicians’ higher music education ...

In Finland, teachers’ have extensive autonomy, that is freedom from control by others over their professional actions in the classroom, and it is considered a strength of Finnish education. At the same time, national ...

In this article, we argue that music teachers working in a fast-changing society could focus on envisioning their students' imaginary spaces for engaging with music and equipping them for leaping into what for the students ...

Sociomusical identity pursues integrative goals, as it establishes bridges between musical identities from a perspective based on transculturation and post-ethnicity. The current study aims to observe the influence of ...

David J. Elliott ( Music Matters. A New Philosophy of Music Education , Oxford University Press, 1995) has recently posed the view that musical understanding is to be equated with musicianship. This epistemological turn ...