Field of work
Magne I. Espeland is professor in Music and Education at West Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Campus Stord, in Norway. Specialities are curriculum development and innovation in music and arts education, educational design studies, research methodologies for education, master and Ph.D – supervision, research and project leadership, and consultancy services and evaluation of education. For a number of years he has been chairing the Research Program for Culture and Creativity Pedagogies (CCP) at HVL and MusicNet West, a network of higher music education in Western Norway. He was one of the founders of Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies (GRS). Nationally he has chaired and served on a number of Ministerial Committees from 1994 onwards, e.g. on new national curricula in music (1997) and music teacher education (2010) and in the Ministerial Expert Committee on art and culture in education, ”Det muliges kunst”, 2014. His current leadership activities include the scientific leadership of the research center "Center of Creativities, Arts and Science in Education" (CASE), which is home to Research & Development projects at the intersection of arts, science and creative education as well as being Principal Investigator in three NCR (National Research Council of Norway) funded research projects: 1)“Improvisation in Teacher Education” (IMTE) (2013- 2017), 2)"School and Concert- from transmission to Dialogue, (DiSco) (2016- 2020), and 3) "Building Sustainable Digital Practices in Kindergarten Literacy and Arts Programmes"(DigiSus) (2017- 2021). Professor Espeland also conducts advisory services for the Swedish Research Council and evaluation studies of Ph.D study programmes in education and music education for the Swedish UKEÅ, the national body for evaluation of higher education in Sweden. From 2019 to 2022 he is also a panel evaluator for the national FCT Humanities program in Portugal. He has many years of experience in commission work for evaluating promotion applications from academic colleagues, and has appeared regularly in Ph.d candidate assessment and as keynote speaker in many countries, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, China, Estonia, Ireland, Germany and the US.
- Master in Creativity and learning processes (MaCrel)
- Dialogic school concerts
- Sustainable digital practices in kindergartens
- Teacher perceptions in arts education
- Creative processes in arts education
Publications
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Towards transdisciplinarity in global integrated science-arts practices in education? A Janus approach
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Towards a rationale for science-art integration as a transdisciplinary signature pedagogy
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Music Education as Craft: Reframing a Rationale
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Contours of Science-Art Education: Pedagogical Principles of Art in Science Teaching - Lessons from the Global Science Opera
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Creativity, Educational Design and Teacher Education in the Global Trans-disciplinary Classroom - Key Note, NAFOL conference 2021
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Music Education as Craft - Reframing theories and practice
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DiSkometoden - dialogbasert kunstner-lærersamarbeid
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Skole og konsert – fra formidling til dialog. Sluttrapport fra et innovasjonsprosjekt
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Kva kan vera berekraftig digital praksis og korleis utvikla kompetanse som støttar det?
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Innovasjonsprosjektet Skole og konsert - fra formidling til dialog (DiSko): Erfaringsrapport 2019
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Time for change in Nordic Music Teacher Education? (Roundtable)
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Breaking the dualism of Art vs Pedagogy? Public schools as topoi for dialogic musical events?
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Breaking the dualism of Art vs Pedagogy? Public schools as topoi for dialogic musical events?
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A Norwegian Perspective on Teacher Education
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Digital kompetanse i arbeid med språk og estetiske fag i barnehagen: Dei vaksne sitt perspektiv
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Presentation in teacher education. A study of student teachers’ transformation and representation of subject content using semiotic technology
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Skole og konsert - fra formidling til dialog (DiSko): Erfaringsrapport 2019
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School and concert. From transmission to dialogue - Symposium presentation
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Researching for Responsible and Innovative Practices in Education: Perspectives on Inclusivity/exclusivity and Methodological Challenges.
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Innovasjonsprosjektet Skole og Konsert – frå Formidling til Dialog. Rapport nr 3, Produksjonsrapport I.
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Performing the pre-formed: Towards a conceptual framework for understanding teaching as curricular transformation
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Holdhus, K., Espeland, M. (2017) Innovasjonsprosjektet Skole og Konsert – fra Formidling til Dialog. Rapport nr 2, Tilstandsrapport.
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Skole og konsert – fra formidling til dialog?
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Disciplined Improvisation as a Professional Teaching Skill in the Education of Physical Education Teachers: Towards Developing Sustainable Teacher Repertoires in Pre-service Programs?
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Designing creative inter-disciplinary science and art interventions in schools: The case of Write a Science Opera (WASO)
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Music in Future Nordic Schooling - The Potential of the Relational Turn
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Innovasjonsprosjektet Skole og konsert - fra formidling til dialog (DiSko) Intensjonsrapport 1, 2017.
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Teachers´ Conceptions of Improvisation in Teaching: Inherent Human Quality or a Professional Teaching Skill?
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Towards a typology of improvisation as a professional teaching skill: Implications for pre-service teacher education programmes
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Kuntfagene Åpner Dørene for Realfag og Seg Selv
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Conceptualizing "Improvisation" as a Key Curricular Concept in Music Teaching
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Improvisasjon i lærerutdanning
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Implementing Improvisation as a Key Curricular Concept in Pre- service Teacher Education
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Ny rammeplan for femårige grunnskolelærerutdanninger – utfordringer og muligheter for musikkfaget
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Improvisation in teaching and education - roots and applications
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Disciplined Improvisation as a professional Teaching Skill in the education of physical education teachers
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Konsertdidaktikk
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Disciplined Improvisation as Professional Teaching Skills in the Education of Physical Education Teachers
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Stjerneopplevelser eller gymsalsestetikk? En studie av kvalitetsoppfatninger i skolekonsertpraksiser
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The relational turn i aesthetics and education. Towards a new and radical rationale for music education
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”Kjekt å ha!”: læraroppfatningar av praktiske og estetiske fag på barnesteget i grunnskulen
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Improvisation in Teacher Education: Curricula and Practice in Dynamic Interplay (IMTE)
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Educational Design Research in Teacher Education Programmes - a Renewing Research Approach for Professional Teacher Development
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Skolefagundersøkelsen 2011 Praktiske og estetiske fag på barnesteget i norsk grunnskole
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The Visiting Artist in Schools: Arts Based or School Based Practices?
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Research and research education in music – disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach?
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Responsible facilitators at the Ph.d.-days in connection to Nordic Network for Research in Music Education
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21. Century Research Education in the Arts: A Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary Approach?
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Creating in music learning contexts
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Praktiske og estetiske fag og lærerutdanning: en utredning
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Skolefagsundersøkelsen 2009: Utdanning, skolefag og teknologi
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Educational progress or stasis on the outskirts of Europe
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One Hundred Years of Music Listening in Schools: Can Research Inform us About its Effects?
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Dichotomies in music education - real or unreal?
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Music teacher practise orientations and efficient integration of computer technology: Only for creative teachers?
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A century of music listening in schools : toward practices resonating with cultural psychology?
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Musikk: musikkundervisninga på ungdomstrinnet og bruk av IKT - eit tenleg instrument for heile musikkfaget?
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Music teacher practise orientations and efficient integration of computer technology: Only for creative teachers?
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Kulturskolen og skolen
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DKS og skolen- underhaldning eller danning?
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Kunstfaga i skolen-forsøk på ein perspektiverande tilstandsrapport
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Dichotomies in music education: Real or unreal?
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Nora's Story and the Mirror of Music Teacher Exellence
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Ceol Abu!, Rang 5&6
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Ceol Abu!, Lámhlebhar an mhúinteora. Rang 5&6 (lærarrettleiing)
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Ceol Abu!, Rang 4 (cd)
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Ceol Abu!, Rang 4 (elevbok)
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Ceol Abu!, Lámhlebhar an mhúinteora. Rang 4 (lærarrettleiing)
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Ceol Abu!, Rang 3 (cd)
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Ceol Abu!, Rang 3 (elevbok)
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Ceol Abu!, Lámhlebhar an mhúinteora. Rang 3 (lærarrettleiing)
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Kreativitet i den norske skulekvardagen- eit spørsmål om å drikka tran eller heilt andre ting?
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Korleis står det til med musikkopplæringa i Noreg?
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To store undersøkingar om musikkfaget- bli med!
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Lights and shadows in the instructional use of ICT: The Norwegian Stord studies; Teachers' evaluation of ICT usage in Art and Crafts, Music education and PE
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Lights and shadows in the instructional use of ICT: The Norwegian Stord studies; Teachers? evaluation of ICT usage in Art and Crafts, Music education and PE
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International Handbook of Research in Arts Education - The Project (Symposium Convenor)
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Creative music education in schools and an internet based educational environment: What are the possibilities and challenges and how will music education be affected? (Symposium Convenor)
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Digital arenas in music education: Framing artistic and educational learning and practices?
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Upbeat. CD 2. Music Fifth+Sixth Class
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Upbeat. CD 1. Music Fifth+Sixth Class
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Upbeat. CD. Music Fourth Class
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Upbeat. CD. Music Third Class
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Upbeat. CD. Music Second Class
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Upbeat. CD. Music First Class
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Ceol Abú! Naíonáin
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Making Connections in Assessment and Evaluation in Arts Education
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Debatt om skapende læring
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Den kulturelle skolesekken og framtida
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Ceol Abú! Naíonáin [Music Infants]
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Ceol Abú! Naíonáin. L´amhleabhar an mh`uinteora (Teacher's Resource Book)
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Compositional Process as Discourse and Interaction. A study of Small Group Music Composition Processes in a School Context
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Making connections in assessment and evaluation in arts education
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A Nordic Perspective on Creativity in Music
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A Scandinavian Perspective on Music Curriculum Research
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Compositional process as discourse and interaction : a study of small group music composition processes in a school context
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Digital arenas in music education: Framing artistic and educational learning and practices?
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Musikklæraren i framtida - brei eller smal?
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Den kulturelle skolesekken - kunstnarleg krydder eller varig danning?
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Upbeat. Music Fifth+Sixth Class. Teachers Resource Book
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Upbeat. Music Fifth+Sixth Class
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Upbeat. Music Fourth Class
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Upbeat. Music Fourth Class. Teachers Resource Book
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Upbeat. Music Third Class. Teachers Resource Book
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Upbeat. Music Third Class
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Upbeat. Music Second Class
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Upbeat. Music Second Class. Teachers Resource Book
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Upbeat. Music First Class. Teachers Resource Book
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Upbeat. Music First Class
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Upbeat. Music Infants. Teacher's Resource Book
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UPBEAT, Music First Class - Pupils Book
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UPBEAT, Music Infants
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Internet-based Creative Music Education/Educación musical creativa, basada en Internet
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Lyttemetodikk. Ressursbok
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Kultur for innovasjon? Om grunnleggende ferdigheter i Stortingsmelding nr.30, Kultur for læring
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Sullivan, Timothy & Willingham, Lee. (Eds.) (2002). Creativity and Music Education
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Lyttemetodikk : ressursbok
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"Ei blot tiil lyst" - eit sporskifte i oppvekstpolitikken
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The African drum: the compositional process as discourse and interaction in school context
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Compositional process as discourse and interaction - a study of small group composition processes in a school context
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The African drum : the compositional process as discourse and interaction in a school context
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Arts based 4 year programme in teacher education : a better approach to teaching the aesthetics?
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Lyttemetodikk. Studiebok
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Lyttemetodikk : studiebok
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Integrative Music Education for a Multicultural Europe - Is it possible in Norway?
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"Curriculum reform in Norway" - an insider's perspective
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Musisering i klasserommet - Hefte 4: Ut i verda - Til Europa
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Lyttemetodikk II
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Å jul med din glede
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"Once upon a time there was a minister"
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Musisering i klasserommet. Folketoner . Hefte 2
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Musisering i klasserommet. Folketoner. Hefte 1
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Komponering i klasserommet - en praktisk metodikk
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Once upon a time there was a minister: An unfinished story about reform in Norwegian arts education
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Filibong - eit brettspel for musikalsk læring
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What are they going to listen to? Problems and opportunities in the selection og music for educational listening in Schools
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Formative research in Norwegian Primary Schools: a collaborative endeavour
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Musikk i bruk . Lyttemetodikk
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Musikk i bruk - musikksamling for grunnskolen/Music in Use - Selections of Music for Schools
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Music in Use, responsive music listening in the primary school
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Hør lydene : musikk og språkstimulering med små barn / K. M. Chacksfield, P. A. Binns, V. M. Robins ; oversatt og bearbeidet av Magne Espeland