The research is oriented towards different age groups in both formal and informal education. It ranges from practical research to philosophical and transcultural studies. The concept of aesthetics is fundamentally complex and can be interpreted in different ways in various traditions and contexts. As the group's common denominator is school curricular teaching and learning in the arts, a central discussion in the group is regarding what aesthetics is in an educational context. This has, among other things, resulted in an anthology on aesthetic learning processes that was published in 2018:
School Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Arts: Challenges, Processes and Protests
Group members
Jonas Asplund: PhD student
Catrine Björck: PhD in educational science with a specialization in Art and learning. Research areas: Teaching and learning with Specialisation in Visual Art and digital technology.
Torben Freytag: PhD student
Julia Fries: PhD student
Anna Johansson: PhD student
Anja Kraus: Professor in Arts and Culture Education. Research interests: esthetic learning, Children Studies, Bildung, Body Phenomenology, corporality and bodily dimensions of learning, tacit knowledge, analysis of power in educational fields, approaches to education in Philosophy and Cultural Studies (Educational Anthropology).
Viveca Lindberg: PhD
Maria Pemsel: Fil. Master in music education. Research interests: learning music from the pupils' and students point of view, trans-disciplinary colleagual learning in teacher education, aesthetic multimodal student projects in citizenship education.
Elsa Szatek: PhD student in Teaching and learning with Specialisation in Arts Education/Drama and theatre. Research interest: Community theatre, applied drama and arts based research, theoretically elaborating on spatial as well as post constructionist theories. Is in her phd-project doing an ethnographic study following an all girls theatre group and the process of staging their everyday life.
Ebba Theorell: PhD student
Ketil Thorgersen: PhD in music education. Research interests: Learning outside institutions/informal learning, philosophy in music education, Black Metal, municipal schools of arts, teaching and learning with modern technology. He is even editor in the European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education.
Ulrika von Schantz: PhD in theater studies and senior lecturer in educational science with a specialization in drama and learning. Research areas: aesthetic learning processes and arts based research with a focus on body / gender, democracy and performing arts.
Maria Wassrin: PhD in subject learning and teaching with a specialization in music. Research interests: our youngest citizens (1-5-years) possibilities to participate in, as well as having impact on, activities and situations that include music in preschool. Research interests also include examining how music as a “preschool subject” is negotiated by the participants. My ambition is to put forward alternative gazes on music in preschool.
