Silje Valde Onsrud

Field of work

Silje Valde Onsrud is professor in music education (Ph.D.) at Department of Arts Education. Her research involves music education practices and musical material in/for elementary school and teacher education. She is teaching and supervising on Master and Ph.D. level, besides managing the courses in science theory, research methods/ethics and master thesis writing for music students in the generalist teacher education. She is also managing a Ph.D.-course in arts education and practice-oriented research. 

Research projects:

"The Master Thesis in Music Teacher Education" (2023-2025)

"The future music teachers: A longitudinell study of novice music teachers' professional development during their first five years of teacher practice" (2023-2029)

"Music Teacher Education for the Future" (FUTURED 2019-2022) is a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, which maps the music subject in the new 5-years general teacher education in Norway, and examens teaching practices for the future through participatory action research together with preservice teachers.  Webpage FUTURED

Latest publications:

Rinholm, H., Fredriksen, B. & Onsrud, S.V. (2023). Critical reflection in music teacher education: Contradictions and dilemmas in theory, policy and practice. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education. http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Rinholmetal22_3.pdf

Onsrud, S.V. & Kvinge, Ø. (2023). Ideological processes and discursive tensions in Norwegian music teacher education
Cogent Education. Cogent Education. DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2023.2259740

Knudsen, J.S. & Onsrud, S.V. (2023). Ideology, selective tradition, and naturalization in the music teacher education curriculum. Nordic Research in Music Education. https://nrme.no/index.php/nrme/article/view/4161

Fredriksen, B., Onsrud, S. V., Rinholm, H. & Lewis, J. (2023). Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education, Music Education Research, DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2023.2210159

Viig, T. G., Onsrud, S. V., Christophersen, C., Lewis, J. & Kvinge, Ø. (2023). Developing Visions for the Future?  A Reflection on Utopias in Music Teacher Education. Visions of Research in Music Education.

Onsrud, S. V., Fredriksen, B., Rinholm, H. & Lindgren, M. (2022). The mulitplicity of preservice music teachers' positioning in a participatory action research project. Research Studies in Music Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X221089838

Onsrud, S. V. (2021). Thinking queer pedagogy in music education with Girl in Red. In Onsrud, S. V., Blix, H. S. & Vestad I. L. (eds.): Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education: From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities. London: Routledge Publisher.

• Music Education theory and didactics
• Gender and sexuality theory
• Science theory
• Qualitative research methods
• Academic writing and reading
• Arts Education 

• Gender performativity in music education
• Song repertoir as art expression and cultural expression
• Teacher Education for the future
• Music in Generalist teacher education
• Gender perspective in educational research
• From pre-service to in-service music teacher

• Culture - Criticism - Community​​​​​​​