Kulturarv i musikundervisningen : En kvalitativ studie om musiklärares implementering av kulturarvet i undervisningen på grundskolan

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to see how music teachers at secondary school work with the implementation of cultural heritage in teaching. What has been examined in the study is what the participating teachers believe that the curriculum aims at the existing cultural heritage, and what they themselves consider to belong to a cultural heritage. It is the qualitative method of interviewing informant and interviewer that has been used. Concepts that are important for this study are cultural heritage and culture. The study highlights different perspectives on culture and heritage and discusses how cultural heritage and identity come together. The teachers have told how they work with the implementation of the cultural heritage in the teaching and what they themselves consider appropriate to use and teach to the students. The teachers also conclude that identity is strongly linked to culture and cultural heritage, and discusses how teaching affects students in their identity creation. The study's analysis is viewed from a theoretical perspective with postcolonialism's way of seeing that the Westerners are seen as normative and Lévi-Strauss's way of looking at the interplay between cultures.