Hur sånglärare talar om personligt uttryck : maktstrukturer och diskurser

Sammanfattning: This qualitative study aims to offer an insight into the term personal expression and its’ meaning and definition in the upper secondary school environment, in which the purpose of the study is to examine singing teachers’ interpretation of the term personal expression and their descriptions of the methods used to assess personal expression. The study has a discourse analytical approach in which concepts such as power, truth effect and construction are used to analyse the gathered material. Four singing teachers working at upper secondary schools participated in the study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Three overarching discourses were identified: education, subjectivity and objectivity and personal expression. It was found that the teachers all helped shape and construct the truth effects of these discourses by their language: they constructed the truth effect that subjectivity in assessment is constant and that internalization and externalization are core elements in personal expression. Through the discourse, it was also discovered that a truth effect the teachers all constructed was that personal expression is hard to both teach and achieve.